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I was messing around with some of the sample Dashboard widget code provided by Apple and came up with a widget that displays the latest entries on the 2Paths blog. Widgets are basically html + css + javascript, with a little ajax mixed in if desired, and as such they’re pretty simple to create and modify. The nice thing about coding them versus something you would access in your browser is that Dashboard is a known variable; you don’t need to worry about what it’s going to look like in 5 different browsers.

On a side note, The Daily Grind is a time tracking widget that allows you to track the amount of time you’ve spent on a number of different tasks/projects. It wouldn’t take a lot of work to interface it with JIRA for our time tracking.

Download: 2Paths Blog Widget (584KB)

Tags: osx

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