design and deploy a widget using your services API. Widgets are a great way to extend your
service to the desktop of Mac users. Widgets are also a great way to promote your content
or an upcoming event. They are a quick and affordable way to add more value to your brand.
This Week in Tech
- October 31, 2008 — 1:36PM
- Posted in Entertainment
Bored while working on your computer. Evoke your dashboard and just click play to listen to the newest episode of This Week in Tech with Leo Laporte and friends. Twit.tv is the premier technology podcast and considered to be the breakthrough feed for podcasting as a platform. Enjoy.
Signal vs. Noise
- October 31, 2008 — 1:14PM
- Posted in News & RSS Readers
Every day I like to check in on what 37signals is up to so I created a new widget that let’s me keep up on their newest blog posts. This widget lets you read Signal vs. Noise and preserves the content formatting that we all have grown to love. Just a simple reader of your favorite blog.
GitHub
- October 31, 2008 — 11:51AM
- Posted in Development
UPDATE — Login has now been added to track the activity of your private feeds.
We have been spending a little spare time at New Leaders, learning Apple’s Dashcode to develop widgets for both Mac OS X and iPhone Apps. I decided to start with something simple, so I created a dashboard widget for the very popular social coding site GitHub. This will be a work in progress. As I learn more about Dashcode I will continue to add additional features to make it more useful. Initially, it just displays the commits from earlier this month.
RailsRumble
- October 31, 2008 — 11:31AM
- Posted in News & RSS Readers
Since we aren’t entering an application into the contest we decided to bust out another widget for Rails Rumble ‘08. This one features the most recent blog posts from the contest site. Now you can stay on top of what is happening during the event.