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10.5: Put anything on the Dashboard System
Following up on the Numbers chart on the Dashboard hint, the same method can be applied to any data that you can take a picture of:
  1. Take a screenshot of the area with Command-Shift-4.
  2. Move the resulting Picture__.png file from your desktop (where it is saved by default) to a folder on your computer (the widget will break if the original is deleted/moved). I personally have mine in ~/Documents/Clippings.
  3. Drag the image to Safari and create a Web Clip in the usual way.
[robg adds: The main difference between this hint and the Keynote hint is that this image will be static -- it will obviously only reflect what you took a screenshot of. In the Keynote hint, if you modify the chart in Keynote, then the web clip image will change when you save the file (as long as you have the chart as the active slide when saving).]
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10.5: Put anything on the Dashboard
Authored by: asmeurer on Feb 19, '08 07:02:24PM

Oh, that title is misleading. It should be something like "Put a screenshot of anything on the Dashboard."
You had me excited that I could put actual windows on the Dashboard



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