After reading in MacWorld about creating a standalone video playback widget, I thought I could apply the same technique to create a Pandora radio widget that stays open all the time.
I created a web clip in Safari, selecting the relevant portion of the Pandora site. Then I followed the directions in the MacWorld article (also in this hint) to enable the removal of widgets from Dashboard. I then opened Dashboard and started dragging my Pandora widget around, and pressed F12 to close the Dashboard, which transferred the widget to the Desktop. The widget will now stay open whether Dashboard is running or not, and whether Safari is running or not.
[robg adds: Safari's Web Clip feature is quite useful for things such as this, though it suffers one near-fatal flaw: you cannot save widgets that you create with Web Clip. If you click the widget's close button, it's gone for good.]
I created a web clip in Safari, selecting the relevant portion of the Pandora site. Then I followed the directions in the MacWorld article (also in this hint) to enable the removal of widgets from Dashboard. I then opened Dashboard and started dragging my Pandora widget around, and pressed F12 to close the Dashboard, which transferred the widget to the Desktop. The widget will now stay open whether Dashboard is running or not, and whether Safari is running or not.
[robg adds: Safari's Web Clip feature is quite useful for things such as this, though it suffers one near-fatal flaw: you cannot save widgets that you create with Web Clip. If you click the widget's close button, it's gone for good.]
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