"Word of the Day" Dashboard Widget

Description: This is simple Dashboard widget created for the book "Hacking MacOS X Tiger" (Scott Knaster), for which I contributed to two chapters. This was before Tiger was released and widgets became all the rage. (I like to think I did my part helping widgets become all the rage.)

I decided on "Word of the Day" because it would demonstrate the feature I think is most interesting about Dashboard widgets—getting useful, changing data from a public web site—while keeping the application domain simple and uncluttered.

In addition to this sample code used in chapter 16, I contributed the Spotlight code used in Chapter 20.

See Also: Hacking MacOS X Tiger on Amazon, Source Code