Blog . Jiboneus

Have I told you that Dashboard programming is fun? Based highly on Apple’s code example, simpleRSS, making a Dashboard widget that retrieves the latest blog entries titles of Blog.Jiboneus by looking on the RSS feed is fairly easy.

Blinklist widget is a Dashboard widget I created for Blinklist, a social bookmarking site, just for fun. The widget could be used to track your blinks(bookmark) or any other Blinklist users public blinks. It also could be used to track tags on Blinklist.

Click on the info button and flip the widget, you have two fields, username and tag. With the both fields empty, the widget show all the latest public Blinks. Input in a username to track the user’s latest blinks, or a tag to track all the latest blinks associated with that tag. Input both username and tag to track blinks of a certain tag by a certain user.

The widget is a simple one, it tracks by looking at the RSS feeds. The RSS produced by Blinklist show some of the latest blinks, therefore this widget is only good for tracking latest blinks.

With a more robust Web service API for Blinklist, other functionality could be added in. A search feature would be nice.

Go ahead, 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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