Wiki Dashboard Widget

January 4, 2005 · 2 comments

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Just got a reminder from Apple to enter the Dashboard widget authoring contest before January 5. I don’t have time to play with Dashboard right now, but I followed a link to the page describing the winner of the last contest.

Holy. Crap. A wiki is just a keystroke away on any MacOSX 10.4 desktop. How’s THAT for hitting the mainstream?

Dashboard Wiki Widget

A wiki, built on the stuff in CoreData, rendered beautifully. Assembled completely from bits available to any application that runs on Tiger (CoreData for SQL database model, javascript for controller, html/css for view).

Oh, man. I can’t wait for Tiger to be released. Must… Resist… Urge… To install… Latest… Alpha…

UPDATE: Looks like Apple has yanked the page I was linking to, probably to get ready for the results of the latest Dashboard Widget contest, which closed today.

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1 netbib weblog January 5, 2005 at 3:38 pm

Ein Wiki für das nächste MacOS: Hitting the Mainstream
D’Arcy Norman bejubelt das Wiki Dashboard Widget, Gewinner eines Entwicklerwettbewerbs und – soweit ich das richtig verstehe – Bestandteil einer kommenden Version des Apple-Betriebssystems MacOSX. “A wiki is just a keystroke away on any MacOSX 10.4 d…

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2 Christian Anderson February 1, 2005 at 11:26 pm

If your a developer looking to share your widgets please visit http://www.widgettracker.com

This is a site created for widget developers to share their widget creations. Also you can find tutorials for creating widgets.

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