How to make a custom Dashboard Widget in Leopard

Looking for an easy, out-of-the-way method for quickly accessing your favorite websites? Try using Dashboard. You can store them there by making your own desktop widgets in Leopard, and you don’t have to know how to code. These are called web clip widgets, and making one is easy. In this example, we will make a YouTube widget, but it can be done with any site.

1. Open Safari.
2. Make your way to YouTube.
3. Choose the web clip button on the tool bar. (If this button is not in your toolbar, click on View in the menubar and select “Customize Toolbar…” Then, drag the icon labelled “Open in Dashboard” up to your tool bar.)
4. Click over the “Videos Being Watched Now” section at YouTube to position the clear box that will appear.

5. Re-size the box with the handles provided.
6. Once it is the right size, click add or hit the Return key.

Dashboard will now open. Click the new YouTube widget and see your results.