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fyi... a useful applet is Amnestywidgets, it turns...

2008-05-19T03:06:06.943-04:00

fyi... a useful applet is Amnestywidgets, it turns most any Dashboard Widget into a standalone application... to put in your dock, or wherever for quick direct access.

http://www.amnestywidgets.com/Singles.html

enjoy...

os11

@Russ W: Great tip man! I've set up my local radar...

2008-05-18T12:13:41.974-04:00

@Russ W: Great tip man! I've set up my local radar as well now. Looks like we've got a series of T-Storms headed our way.

If I can add to your instructions... go to the ur...

2008-05-18T10:00:51.780-04:00

If I can add to your instructions... go to the url provided for the Radar Mosaic, select your region map, and once there,enter your zip code and once you have your area, animate it, then zoom in. Once you have the "close up" of your area that you want, click on the scissor icon in Safari and follow the rest of the instructions.

Up close and personal...

Russ W

@P Ro Mo: Don't worry, your comments come through ...

2008-05-18T02:21:46.062-04:00

@P Ro Mo: Don't worry, your comments come through fine and your English is very good. I'm glad you are enjoying this blog. According to my web site logs I get a lot of people from Korea reading this blog so I'm glad to see it helps.

Best Regards,

--David

I love & interest Mac.and I have macbook. ^^Your b...

2008-05-17T23:17:02.332-04:00

I love & interest Mac.
and I have macbook. ^^

Your blog is very useful for me and
make be happy!

I'm Korean. So English is not mother tongue.

Your blog is improve my English Level.

HaHa Thank you~

I hope your nice story is continue.

ps. If your OK, Could you please fix my sentences.

Here's a tip for keeping widgets open without keep...

2008-05-17T22:23:18.394-04:00

Here's a tip for keeping widgets open without keeping the dashboard active:

Open the terminal and type "defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES" without the quotes and all on one line.

Now click and drag a Dashboard widget and close the Dashboard while still clicking the widget. The widget will stay active. To move it back to the Dashboard "dimension", click and drag then open the Dashboard and release.

Vic

For those of you using Radar In Motion, double cli...

2008-05-17T16:10:46.725-04:00

For those of you using Radar In Motion, double clicking on the map in Dashboard makes it bigger. That doesn't improve the image quality, but it does make it easier to see!

BTW, Radar in Motion does NWS as well as WEather Channel maps.

And it works in Tiger!

@matt: Web clipping is a Leopard/Safari only tech....

2008-05-17T13:53:40.190-04:00

@matt: Web clipping is a Leopard/Safari only tech. Sorry dude!

Dashboard Web Clip

---RASTER

I'm the biggest weather fanatic I know so it's gre...

2008-05-17T13:10:57.108-04:00

I'm the biggest weather fanatic I know so it's great to see others on here!

The NAtional Weather Service has a fantastic widget for OS X as well, check it out.

@William: Thanks man - I didn't even see that one ...

2008-05-17T11:07:53.413-04:00

@William: Thanks man - I didn't even see that one yesterday when I was looking for a weather radar widget. I still like the Wunderground map since it's larger but Radar in Motion is pretty slick, and covers areas outside the US nicely.

I like wundergrond for weather as well, but Radar ...

2008-05-17T10:57:08.676-04:00

I like wundergrond for weather as well, but Radar in Motion is an official dashboard widget that uses the weather channel radar for the same thing.

Ah, so you did. Swept right past that. A quick sea...

2008-05-17T09:37:45.904-04:00

Ah, so you did. Swept right past that. A quick search on Google for something similar with Tiger didn't yield much. Just might have to take the plunge and upgrade. (Would rather apply the $ to a new Mac with Leopard preinstalled, but oh, well.)

@Dennis: FYI, I'm running Safari 3.1.1 and OS X 10...

2008-05-17T09:35:00.311-04:00

@Dennis: FYI, I'm running Safari 3.1.1 and OS X 10.5.2 on both my machines.

@Dennis: Hmmm - I've done this on both of my Macs ...

2008-05-17T09:31:37.244-04:00

@Dennis: Hmmm - I've done this on both of my Macs and it kept the widget after I closed the Dashboard - reopening it later without problems and refreshing the image. Which version of OS X and Safari are you running?

great tip dave. now can you tell me how you would ...

2008-05-17T09:24:37.539-04:00

great tip dave. now can you tell me how you would keep it as a widget without having to leave it open all the time?

once i close it, when i re-open it the weather map is gone and only a generic web clip widget shows up.

dennis

@Matt T: Sorry Matt, as I said in the article I'm ...

2008-05-17T09:04:00.225-04:00

@Matt T: Sorry Matt, as I said in the article I'm not sure if this will work in Tiger. If anyone knows how to do this in Tiger please speak up!

What scissors icon? I'm using Safari 3.1 on Tiger....

2008-05-17T09:00:20.493-04:00

What scissors icon? I'm using Safari 3.1 on Tiger. No scissors icon, no option to add one in "customize toolbar." Is this an Intel Mac only feature?