Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets

If anyone like to get more Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets, use this shortlist:
Get More Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets:
http://pimp-my-dashboard.blogspot.com
http://m-a-c-w-i-d-g-e-t-s.blogspot.com
http://dashboard-candy.blogspot.com
http://thedashboard-get-more-widgets.blogspot.com
http://g-a-m-e-w-i-d-g-e-t-s.blogspot.com
http://thedashboard-widgets.blogspot.com
http://t-h-e-d-a-s-h-b-o-a-r-d.blogspot.com
http://osx--dashboard--widgets.blogspot.com
Get More Mac OS X Desktop Widgets:
http://desktop-widgets.blogspot.com
Get More Xcode and Dashcode Tips:
http://xcodetips.blogspot.com

Here are some Mac OS X Dashboard related links where you can get new widgets, tips and help:
http://the.dashboard.onemac.org
http://gamewidgets.onemac.net
http://tv.widgets.onemac.org
http://dashboardgames.onemac.org
http://pimp.my.dashboard.onemac.org
http://macwidgets.onemac.org
http://dashboardclocks.onemac.org
http://dashcode.onemac.net
http://dashboardtv.onemac.org
http://onewidget.onemac.org
Enjoy ;-)

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Support boards for developing dashboard widgets? any response, please??

i don't mean to be a noodge, but 4 days ago i posted a simple request asking if i could get support here for some questions i had as regards some snags i ran into making dashboard widgets. while other people's questions about ruby/rails, c and objective c and even powerpoint (shouldn't that be in a microsquish support forum??) have been responded to.
all i want to know is, can anyone help me here or at least point me to other support boards that offer help for those developing dashboard widgets? is that too much to ask?
my original message i posted 4 days ago is below. i would appreciate response from anyone, please. i can't believe i'm the only person out here seeking support for my *.html, *.css and javascript files for dashboard widgets.
hi,
i'm trying my hand at the most rudimentary of developing for mac os x - developing a dashboard widget, using html, css & javascript.
i'm trying to make a simple widget that uses the real audio plug-in in the system (if you downloaded real player) to play a local portland, oregon fm classical radio station, kbps-fm 89.9 (www.allclassical.org).
i'm running into some snags both in making the "i" info button flip the thing around (it was working before, but since i added in the code that makes the real player plug in work, no matter where i place the position of the "i" flipper, it doesn't show up), and in the graphics i'm trying to create for the widget.
should i seek help here? are there better boards/forums for mac os x dashboard widget creation i can go to, and if so, can anyone direct me there? i know about adc, and am a (free) member, but they don't have discussion boards there and i don't want to pay oodles in tech support just to get some basic javascript and css questions handled.
if anyone could please direct me to where i can ask these questions or help me out, please let me know. thanx.
-- faddah yuetsu wolf
portland, oregon
[email protected]

Hi
i don't mean to be a noodge, but 4 days ago i posted
a simple request asking if i could get support here
for some questions i had as regards some snags i ran
into making dashboard widgets. while other people's
questions about ruby/rails, c and objective c and
even powerpoint (shouldn't that be in a microsquish
support forum??) have been responded to.
You shouldn't take the lack of response as a personal insult The nature of these forums (fora?) is that people respond to those messages where they can help and don't respond when they can't help. FWIW I've got two unresolved questions dating back to Mar 17th!
In my opinion, the Developer forums would be absolutely ideal and on-topic places to discuss Widget development..... but it looks like very few experienced Widget developers hang out here, so any questions would most likely go unanswered. My own skill area in limited to Java so I can't help out with widgets. No doubt the other forum regulars are in a similar position.
Bob

Seeking support boards for developing dashboard widgets?

i posted this 4 days ago to the "Software Development 101" board here on apple support. absolutely no response. 7 people viewed it, none responded.
it's just a very simple question - can i get help here or could someone please point me towards support boards, on apple or third party, which can help me out with some snags i've run into in creating dashboard widgets? that's all, really.
any response and help would be appreciated.
here's my original message from four days ago...
hi,
i'm trying my hand at the most rudimentary of developing for mac os x - developing a dashboard widget, using html, css & javascript.
i'm trying to make a simple widget that uses the real audio plug-in in the system (if you downloaded real player) to play a local portland, oregon fm classical radio station, kbps-fm 89.9 (www.allclassical.org).
i'm running into some snags both in making the "i" info button flip the thing around (it was working before, but since i added in the code that makes the real player plug in work, no matter where i place the position of the "i" flipper, it doesn't show up), and in the graphics i'm trying to create for the widget.
should i seek help here? are there better boards/forums for mac os x dashboard widget creation i can go to, and if so, can anyone direct me there? i know about adc, and am a (free) member, but they don't have discussion boards there and i don't want to pay oodles in tech support just to get some basic javascript and css questions handled.
if anyone could please direct me to where i can ask these questions or help me out, please let me know. thanx.
-- faddah yuetsu wolf
portland, oregon
[email protected]

Check the Apple Mailing Lists. There are several lists that might be interesting to you. There is even a "Dashboard-Dev" list. Usually the topics discussed in the mailing lists are much more in-depth than anything on these forums.
Before posting, make sure to use the archive search feature to check similar problems and/or solutions to try.
Sorry about not responding sooner. You message hit the "sweet spot" on Friday. I generally only check this forum during the (work) week due to boredom. Once I leave work for the week-end, I'm too busy programming on my Mac myself.

Anything Like Translation Dashboard Widget as iPhone App?

Do any of you know of an iPhone app that works a lot like the Mac's translation Dashboard widget?
Yes, I do know that there are various websites that can perform machine translations, but it would be nice if I could set if up for a particular translation, and have it easy to enter text on the iPhone in particular.

I realized that the iPhone version of Safari let's you keep several windows open (kinda like tabs), so I think having two Google Translate windows open, one set for English-to-Chinese and one the other way, I can quickly crank out such translations, without having to wait for the page to load, set it correctly, etc. I think that will work.

Flash in Mac OSX dashboard widgets

We're at a dead-end!
We've successfully integrated remote flash into a dashboard
widget. Actualy, making the flash remote, and changing all click
events to onRollOver is the only way to do it (that we've found).
And this works *great* for navigation inside a flash movie.
The problems come when trying to link out of that movie to launch a
Safari broswer page -- the same way Dashboard's custom java call
does. We've tried sending a java call back to a function in
dashboard's local HTML that triggers the appropriate
widget/javascript function -- and that's what throws the security
error.
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

are you trying to simply get a safari page to open or are you
trying to get a page to appear inside the dashboard?
If you just want safari to load in OSX, why not use getURL???
If you want it to always use the java callback as it does in
most widgets, it may be more of an OSX issue. You may want to check
on security issues on apple's developer site to see what rights or
privledges you need to grant flash access to the same rights or
privs other widgets already have.

Brand new iMAC, Mountain Lion installed, dashboard widgets will not download. Webpage times out. Any suggestions?

Just purchased a brand new iMAC and sucessfully performed download and install of Mountain Lion (free upgrade). Discovered that dashboard widgets will not download as webpage times_out in both Safari and Firefox. Already set security to allow downloads from 'anywhere' but with no change. Downloads from anywhere else works fine, just widgets won't work, and I've been trying for several days now. Any suggestions? (firewall is off).

The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
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Could a Dashboard widget be the cause of my Panics?

Hello everyone,
For the past few months, I've gotten a kernel panic on the average of about once a week. I started looking a the kernel logs and I discovered that 18 out of the 19 kernel panics my powerbook experienced this year had something eerily in common: the current thread for all of them was DashboardClient.
Now what's frustrating is that all loaded widgets are labeled as "DashboardClient" in the activity monitor so I don't know how I'm suppose to figure out which one, save for process of elimination.
But could a dashboard widget be the source of my kernel panics?
Also, my drive's directory structure is spotless. No errors, defraged, disk warrior, etc. and I'm current with my updates.
If anyone could help me I'd really appreciate it!
Here's a panic dump from the latest panic:
Wed Apr 28 15:32:17 2010
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x0000000000000008 PC=0x00000000000AD208
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x30195780)
PC=0x000AD208; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x00000008; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x0007C270; R1=0x302A7A70; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x0007C270 0x0007CC54 0x0006E040 0x0006EB68 0x0003AB18 0x0029B170
0x0029B29C 0x0029BA74 0x0029BB94 0x003100AC 0x000B4448 0x9816C485
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x30195780)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x37fe1a00)
PC=0x95492954; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0xE34BCCA8; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x95492948; R1=0xBFFF99B0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: DashboardClient
Mac OS version:
9L31a
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:57:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_PPC
System model name: PowerBook5,6
System uptime in nanoseconds: 373029901008580
unloaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver 1.7.4f1 - last unloaded 5772792683945
loaded kexts....

Yes, a widget can cause kernel panics — particularly an old one that hasn't been updated as needed for compatibility with a more recent OS version.
Starting with the widgets that you know you've added yourself, open each of your installed widgets and put it through its paces doing whatever it does, in an effort to provoke a kernel panic on purpose. While you have it open (if no KP occurs), consult the website of its developer to see whether any updates are available for it, and apply any that are appropriate. (Avoid any update that is designated as compatible ONLY with Snow Leopard or Intel machines, if you run across any such.)
If you get through updating all your widgets without a KP, just keep using your Powerbook and see what happens. It's unfortunate that you may have to wait several weeks to conclude that the problem has or hasn't been solved, but it may take that long if your KPs up to now have only occurred about weekly.
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How to: Embed YouTube in Ibook/Location of File, Open in Dashboard Widget Code?

Hi,
I am new to the whole Mac experience and loving it after 25 years locked into the MSGATES paradigm. I have been playing around with Ibook and have made a book. I would like to embed a You Tube file and it seems it is not as simple as slecting an HTML widget and then dropping in the Youtube embed code. Or is it?
Instructions are to create a widget and then drag the widget code into the HTML widget in iBooks. I was able to make it as far as to learn I can make my YouTube video a custom dashboard widget using the "File," "Open in Dashboard" method in Safari.
Once I did this I was able to select the portion of the YouTUBE page and click to make the YouTube widget. Presto, easy as pie. But where is the .wdgt file (and/or other related files to this custom dashboard widget) stored? I was able to find the widget directory in my root but only the preinstalled widgets were there--not the the widget I was able to make with the "File," "Open in Dashboard" method.
Is this the most straightforward way to embed a You Tube file, or is there another way?
It seems this should/can be as easy as just dropping the embed code into the HTML widget in iBooks. perhaps a consideration for the next version of iBooks...
Lov'in the Apple experience

We use a container thats ratio matches the video and insert following format into the folio overlay controls for Web Content: https://www.youtube.com/embed/ jyOFS5lAG68 *PLEASE NOTE: there is a space between the embed/ the video ID. Remove it to see how the video looks when you paste the link.
We found this works on both iOS and Android.
-Ry-

Where can you get more Dashboard Widgets?

The Apple Dashboard site is not been updated for 2/3 years now and i know a lot of people still using the dashboard. Why is Apple not allowing Dashboard Widgets been uploaded in to Mac App Store? Why is Apple not updating Dashcode for years? And where are good dashboard widget sites? Thanks ;-)

Is the Apple Dashboard site page, searchable?
Does not appear to offer such a vantage-point.
A few older items gone missing were great,
such as the original iStat Pro, & Dash-Quit.
Among others, I still use them in older OS X.
However if chickens could really fly, then
they'd not be found in so many recipes.

Apple Remote Desktop Dashboard Widget v3.6 not functioning as advertised

Just saw there's an updated (A)RD Widget.
I've downloaded it but seems exactly the same as previous versions.
I can't view widget of MacMini Server. Instead has yellow triangle with exclamation point.
Can't interact/launch ARD by clicking on widget of any individual compter, SL or Lion.
Grey screen with or without spinning wheel for Lion clients.
Anyone getting the 3.6 widget to funcrtion as described?
From Apple:
About Apple Remote Desktop Dashboard Widget v3.6
The Apple Remote Desktop Dashboard widget* gives you an instant, at-a-glance view of the remote computers in your network.
It’s fully integrated with the Apple Remote Desktop administrative application, so a click on a particular computer will allow you to select and start working with any computer in the system.
* Requires a licensed copy of Apple Remote Desktop to be installed on your Mac.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1568

Same thing here.
I have 3 macs.
2 iMacs and a MacBok Pro.
MacBook Pro and iMac 1 (the newer) works fine with the widget. But both can't see the iMac 2, only the exclamation mark

Dashboard Widgets Never Seem to Work

Is anyone successfully using the dashboard widgets? I always get a message that says they can not connect, and to try re-entering my info. I know that I am entering the info correctly. I have both goals and challenges that I am a part of, so I am not sure what is happening. I did throw out the widgets and re-downloaded from the Apple site, but that did not help. Thanks in advance to anyone who may have some insight.

I have the exact same problem: The widgets can not connect. I wrote the Nike+support, but according to them there is no problem. This is what they wrote - although I clearly told them that I only have a problem with the widgets:
"We are not experiencing any general problems with the NIKEPLUS website.If you have been able to log in previously then you should type in the exact email address and password.If you would like to reconfirm your password then please phone us on 80883063 and we can check your details. Otherwise there may be a problem with your MAC.You can ask www.apple.com/dk/support for information."

Dashboard widgets keep moving around!

I'm guessing it is related to this question: (still unanswered)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2080780&tstart=0
But for some reason, my dashboard widgets like to shift around on my screen. I even moved them all into a gird into the upper left and corner of my screen so that it no matter what size screen I am using they will always be there. (as apposed to putting a widget in the bottom corner of my 1920 x 1200 monitor, unhooking it and then going back to the 1280 x 800 screen and finding the widget off screen.)
So is there any way to "LOCK" the positions or just stop the random shifting around?
Thanks,
Scott

I just meant open the Dashboard icons you want to use and put them where you want them.
Dave M.
MacOSG Founder/Ambassador  An Apple User Group  iTunes: MacOSG Podcast
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Dashboard widgets not rendering correct for second user account

Hi - on my macbook I have two user accounts. My problem here is that the dashboard widgets do not render correct on the second account.
This goes for most widgets - the typical effect is that the text is not show, as in the unit converter - text is not shown in weather widget - and so on.
If I switch to the other (Admin) account then everything seems to work perfectly. I have tried removing the .plist files and changing the second account to an Admin account but with no luck.
Is there anything else I ought to try?
regards
Christian
MacBook (black) Mac OS X (10.4.7)

So - solved - conflicting Helvetica font.

Dashboard widgets showing missing plugin icons

A couple of my Dashboard widgets - notably Flight Tracker and Unit Converter - appear with the missing plugin icons and do not work. How do I fix this?

Don, this can happen if you accidently overwrote these widgets (which should have been pre-installed with your machine) with PowerPC versions from an older Mac. Did you use migration assistant to transfer your files over to your new machine (and if so, could you have accidently copied over these widgets)?
Unfortunately, the only solution is to 1) reinstall OS X or 2) use Pacifist to extract the widgets from your OS X install disks.

Dashboard widgets vanish after recent security update

I just updated my 12" iBook G4 with the most recent security update, and now my Dashboard widgets vanish on load. I've tried repairing permissions and deleting both the dashboard prefs and DashboardCache. I've killed and rekilled the Dock process which handles Dashboard, and rebooted, and the darn widgets still vanish.
I don't want to have to reinstall OS X. Is there some way to fix this?

Some games lately can push graphic cards further and harder.
Check PC graphic/game forums to see if you can find a relationship.
No way in Mac OS to regulate or control gpu fan, monitor temp (?) or other things all taken for granted on PC and Windows.
SmcFanControl 2.2.x - at least you can boost 3 of the system fans and change the default and set profiles for work loads. Try a "game profile" of 1500 rpm.
If - and I assume the 8800GT is probably starting to stress and strain and slow death - it would happen in Windows also, if you have it installed.
8800GT: people blamed 10.6 and other updates as if it caused their card to fail. Unlikely though maybe with a card that was marginal or had trouble to begin with.
There weren't nvidia drivers in security update, but were in 10.6.4; in SL Graphics Update 1.0; and there is/was Mac OS X CUDA 3.x patch/update also you should be using. There were updates for GTX 285 that should have included the 8800GT as well probably.
When you system crashes, or before there is a software update, by all means ---
CLONE YOUR SYSTEM / RUN DISK WARRIOR (don't rely on just Apple DU First Aid)
Easy to blame an update for a pre-existing issue that was present.
And always have a backup you can boot from of older version of OS X (even 10.6.3).
Some people have gone back to 10.6.0 and then only up to 10.6.3.
Try a clean system install on a newly zeroed hard drive and test everything.
Wait for new graphic drivers.
Plan on ATI 5870 or 5770.
GTX 285 vs GT120 / 4870 / 8800 / 3870
http://www.barefeats.com/nehal14.html 3D and Core Image
Radeon HD 5870 + 5770 2006 Mac Pro versus older GPUs
http://www.barefeats.com/wst10g5.html
5870 + 5770 versus older GPUs
http://www.barefeats.com/wst10g6.html

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