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. Web Clips: Make Your Own Widgets You don't have to be satisfied with Apple's 20 widgets or the several thousand that other people have written. | . Web Clips Make Your Own Widgets You don t have to be satisfied with Apple s 20 widgets or the several thousand that other people have written. Leopard introduces Web clips a new way to make a Dashboard widget of your own in about three clicks. Web clips exploit an inescapable characteristic of widgets An awful lot of them exist to deliver real-time information from the Web. That s the point of the Ski Report widget Weather Stocks Flight Tracker ESPN and so on. Figure 5-31. Widgets could in theory harbor viruses so Mac OS X is extremely cautious in downloading them. Top When you try to download a widget the Mac asks if you re sure. Middle After you download a widget and confirm your intention you meet this test-drive mode for newly downloaded widgets. It s a way to play with new widgets before you actually commit to adding them to your system. Play with the widget and then click Keep to install it or Delete if you think it s evil . Bottom Not all good things come from Apple. Here s a representative sample of widgets written by other people. From top left Plasma Tube Guitar Chords Chuck Norris Facts World Radio and MiniStat 2 details about your Mac at the moment . But what if your interest isn t skiing stocks or sports What if it s the New York Times front page Or the bestselling children s books on Amazon Or the most-viewed video on You Tube That s the beauty of Web clips a joint venture of Dashboard and the Safari Web browser in Mac OS X . They let you turn any section of any Web page into a Dashboard widget that updates itself every time you open it. It s like having a real-time keyhole peek at all your favorite Web sites at once. . Creating a Web Clip Widget Here s how you go about creating a do-it-yourself widget 1. Open Safari. Safari is the Mac s Web browser. It s in your Applications folder. 2. Navigate to the Web page that contains the information you want to snip. Click the Web clips button identified in Figure 5-32. The screen goes dark .

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