Hotmail.com and Safari Browser

Today, a friend of mine told me that after updating to Safari 4 beta on his Tiger system, he cannot access his account on Hotmail.com.

He also informed that after downgrading to Safari 3, Hotmail.com continues not to work!

I told him to try Firefox and, voilà, Hotmail.com works!

Mac OS X Security Configuration Guides

You can find the Mac OS X Security Configuration Guides here.

For Leopard, Tiger and Panther!

Safari 3.2.1 released

Hopefully, it won't crash as often as its previous version!
It is available in both Tiger and Leopard editions.

DashboardStarter

"DashboardStarter is a small application that brings up Dashboard and closes it right away. Drag the app to your login items and have Dashboard load the widgets in the background."

This loads your Widgets and you do not have to wait them to load the first time your run Dashboard. Very handy.

Did you find the above information helpful? You will find a lot more information in my eBook "Programming Dashboard Widgets". The eBook describes how you can create Apple Dashboard Widgets using many programming languages including JavaScript, Perl, Objective-C, and PHP. You can buy it here.

Book Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Dashboard

Chapter 2: Existing Apple Widgets

Chapter 3: Existing Widgets

Chapter 4: Programming the Hello World! Widget

Chapter 5: Using JavaScript for creating Widgets

Chapter 6: Creating a Widget using Perl

Chapter 7: Programming Widgets using PHP

Chapter 8: Creating Widget plugins using Objective-C

Chapter 9: A Widget that uses UNIX Shell Commands

Chapter 10: Advanced Widget Techniques

Chapter 11: A Widget that processes RSS feed

Chapter 12: A Widget that Interacts with a MySQL Database

Chapter 13: Widget Hints and Tips

Appendix A: A Short Introduction to HTML

Appendix B: An Introduction to CSS

Appendix C: Reading and Understanding an Existing Apple Widget

Programming Dashboard Widgets eBook released!

This is the first post of the official blog site for my "Programming Dashboard Widgets" eBook.

You can buy the book here.

Number of Pages: 370

Number of Chapters: 13

Number of Appendices: 3

Based on standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Dashboard Widgets are simple to build and easy to extend. The "Programming Dashboard Widgets" book contains all that your need to know in order to create and program your own Apple Dashboard Widgets. The book also shows you techniques that help you fine-tune, extend and explore existing Widgets.

You do not have to be an HTML, CSS or JavaScript expert to understand the book as it presents and explains all the necessary HTML, CSS and JavaScript knowledge. Each book chapter contains bibliographic references that will help you expand your knowledge.

You can find its detailed TOC in PDF format here.

Thank you!

Mihalis.