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Blogger Widget for Mac Dashboard
February 23, 2006
I’m really excited to introduce you to the Blogger widget, one of the
three widgets
for Mac OS X 10.4 now available on
Google Labs
. This li’l guy makes it
even easier
to post to your blog from your Mac: pop open the
Dashboard
(F12 usually works), type some text, press one of the alluring, shiny buttons, and then spend the next few minutes flipping widgets back and forth from front to back because the animation is so cool.
If you have multiple blogs, you can have multiple Blogger widgets open, each one tuned to its own blog. And, if space gets cramped, just click the blue title bar at the top of the widget to collapse it up, window shade–style.
Some handy widget tips:
The text box works pretty much like Compose mode in the full editor on Blogger. You can type HTML tags in there, but also use ⌘-B to make words
bold
and ⌘-I to make them
italic
.
If you start a post in the widget and then realize you need to add a picture or do something else that you need the full editor for, just save your post as a draft. A link will appear that’ll jump you right into Blogger to pick up your post where you left off.
The widget checks periodically to see if there’s a newer version, so if we fix bugs or add new features you’ll be sure to know.
Your password gets stored in the
Keychain
, so it’s nice and secure.
If you need any help or have any cool widgety ideas, we’ve set up a special
Google Group for the Mac widgets
. Don’t forget to check out the other two widgets, too: Gmail and Search History. They’re really slick and I think you’ll like them a lot.
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