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Dash Clipping - why wait for Leopard?

Posted August 11, 2006 7:51 PM.

I'd normally have linklogged this except it's quite sweet and I thought I'd slap up a picture to illustrate the first use I've found for it - Dash Clipping is a little OSX Dashboard widget that does exactly the same thing as the widget Steve Jobs announced the other day at WWDC - you can crop a part of a live website and turn it into a component of your dashboard, updating when the page changes. I've taken the top story off BBC News in this example:

It's not the most beautiful of applications but it seems pretty solid so far. Worth a look, certainly. Suggestions for other applications very much solicited.

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