Why wait for Leopard? Get Dash Clipping now

Let's face it: Apple on Monday previewed some really slick new features in the next version of Mac OS X, but they aren't going to let us get our hands on them until some time next spring. Even though that's technically 6 months or so away, that's really like a few years when translated into computer industry years. So why wait for Leopard?

Some of the features in the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 either already exist in present applications (as Dan pointed out), or developers have been inspired from Monday's keynote and are producing their own versions, with Web Clippings as our first example. The developer of Shrook looked at this new tool, realized that it's utilizing a fairly simple trick and whipped together his own Dash Clippings tool.

After playing with this for a bit, I can say it more or less works very similarly to the Web Clippings tool demoed in the keynote. You enter a URL into the widget, and it loads up the page. You then drag the widget to the proper size and over the specific area of the page you want to clip, and presto - you've just made yourself a live, dynamic web clipping tool that will check the page for updates as often as you tell it to.

Hey, who says Apple is the only company that can use the "good artists copy, great artists" steal philosophy? Once you're done answering that (or not), go snag yourself a copy of Dash Clippings and check one drool-inducing feature off your Leopard shopping list.

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Source: http://www.fondantfancies.com/blog/3001239/

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Parker

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9. I use Desktop manager for multiple desktop - in conjunction with the smackbook pro script I can just tap my foot against either side of my desk to switch between them

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DUDE THAT WAS SO MY IDEA

August 10 2006 at 5:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mingistech

Re: Zeno Davatz

I'm getting the exact same results. the app does nothing.

August 10 2006 at 4:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Zeno Davatz

Does not work for me, sorry. Nothing happens. I gave the author some Feedback but no reply so far. When I enter a URL and click "Next", just nothing happens. Any hints anybody?

August 10 2006 at 10:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David Kelly

#13 extensor. Codetek Virtual Desktop switches to the correct desktop when you click on the icon in the dock or use apple-tab to switch applications. On top of this it has a load of extra features not found in any other virtual desktop program such as being able to configure which desktop an app should start on when you first run it on a per-application basis.

http://www.codetek.com

August 10 2006 at 2:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ryan

So now, after watching the keynote, are we calling Microsoft great artists for "stealing" ideas from Apple to put into Vista? Seems like fair play to me... may the best OS win... (of course we already know....)

Xerox - Apple - Microsoft - Apple - ?

August 10 2006 at 1:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kurt

Nice tool. I wish it would work with videos!
http://www.honolulu.gov/cameras/waikiki_beach/waikiki.htm

August 09 2006 at 10:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

wd's brain

#7 Dan K. - Thanks for the link to desktop manager. I'm using it now and it is sweet. The only thing lacking that I can see, is the ability to jump to a desktop when clicking on an app int he dock liek Spaces does.

August 09 2006 at 10:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David Kelly

Works okay for me. Doesn't have quite the finesse that the Leopard feature will have but then this was done in a day so it's pretty good for the development timeframe.

August 09 2006 at 3:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

This app is terrible. Booooo Dash Clip.

August 09 2006 at 2:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mathmonkey

I'm sure some folks won't find much use for it, but it just solved my TV listings issue. Zap2It isn't dependable enough, so I just loaded up my zipcode into yahoo TV and used that instead. Awesome widget.

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