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Familiar with HTML and CSS design? Know your way around JavaScript? Uses Mac OSX Tiger? Read this, this and this, try out Dashboard programming, it’s fun.

The technology behind Dashboard is really a simple one. The Dashboard it self is powered by wed technologies and standards such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript with some added special JavaScript library from apple that allows the widgets you have created to have preferences, localization, system access and such.

Sounds interesting. The best way for me to learn something is always to jump straight into it. Arm with Dashboard references and tutorial from Apple Developer Connection archive and some sample code from Apple, I created my first Dashboard widgets. A widgets for this blog.

Blog.Jiboneus widget is actually a simple widget that reads the RSS feeds from this blog and display it. Keep track of Blog.Jiboneus with the widget.

Check it out. Try it out.

Update: A Dashboard widget is an application that runs in Dashboard on Mac OS X 10.4 (”Tiger”). Dashboard widgets don’t run on Windows, Linux, or on earlier versions of Mac OS.

(Windows users might like to check out the Yahoo! Widget Engine instead - that runs widgets too, although it doesn’t run this widgets.)

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