We've just finished our first Mac Dashboard Widget!
What's a Mac Dashboard Widget?
The Mac dashboard is home to widgets: mini-applications that let you perform common tasks and provide you with fast access to information. With a single click, Dashboard appears, complete with widgets that bring you a world of information — real-time weather, stock tickers, flight information and more — instantly. Dashboard disappears just as easily, so you can get back to what you were doing.
We've just created a widget that gives Mac users access to up to minute wind readings from weather beacons around Australia. St Kilda Kiteboarding will offer this widget to kiteboarders (like me) which compliments the existing wind information on their site. It was a labour of love more than anything, and a nice result in the end.
If you've got a Mac running OSX, why not give it a go! If you're interested in seeing what the dashboard and widgets look like check out this little demo on the Apple website
5 sleeps to go...
David
Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006