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Create a simple, feature rich, Facebook Dashboard widget in 4 steps.

Are you constantly checking or updating your Facebook profile? Do you like to be up to date on all your friends? Are you having difficulty finding a nice Facebook Dashboard widget? Stop looking and create one now!

Facebook Dashboard Widget

It’s really simple. All you need is Safari 3 and a Mac. Here’s how to do it.

  1. Go to iphone.facebook.com in Safari 3.
  2. Make your browser window as small as you can horizontally and as short as you’d like vertically. Make adjustments based on your personal likes.
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iClip vs iClip Lite – Multiple Clipboards

iClipA while ago I was introduced to iClip. iClip is a multi-clipboard application that records about as many items as you want. It can save the last three or 10 or 20+ clipboard items. Seeing as I have a tendency to copy something, then copy over it before I used the first one, this is a no brainer for me. It has come in incredibly helpful and I can’t image using my computer without iClip.

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WWDC Aftermath, Little Shock & Awe

Well WWDC Apple announcements are over and what are we left with? Some cool stuff, but nothing earth shattering in my mind.

New Mac Pro’s do sound sweet, but I’m not in need of a Pro machine. My iMac works wonders! New Xserves too, again, not my area of expertise.

The Leopard features were not as big as I was hoping for. Apple claims to be holding out on some of the new features until later so they don’t get copied. I can understand that and I’ll wait, no problems there. However, the new Time Machine backup utility looks amazing. How often will it be used though? If we don’t backup now, why would we in the future? It’ll be interesting to see it in action and I hope it’s as cool as it sounds.

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My First Dashboard Widget

I’ve created my first Dashboard Widget :)

My First Dashboard WidgetThanks to a nice tutorial from Josh Nimoy I was able to walk though the steps and see how easy it is to create a simple, yet pointless, Dashboard Widget.

You never know, this could be the first steps towards something amazing!

If you want, and I don’t see why you would, you can download my widget FirstTry.