jcroft
10-15-2005, 03:53 AM
Guys...
As you know, Iv'e been working on hard (along with James and with input form the rest of the staff) on the new NewBeetle.org homepage. I think you all are really going to like it. It should be ready in the next few weeks.
At that point, I'll be looking for my next project for the site, and I was thinking it might be cool to do a Mac OS X Dashboard widget. Now, as a disclaimer, I've not written any Dashboard widgets to date, so I could get into it and find it's way more trouble than it's worth -- but at least in theory, it seems doable.
As for what would be on it: I haven't thought it through too much yet, but I'm thinking like your subscribed threads, your buddy list, your private messages, and maybe another thing or two. The idea would be to notify you when your threads are updated, when you get PMs, when your buddies come online, etc.
What I want to know from you guys is how many people would be interested in this. We're sitting at about 8% Mac users here at NewBeetle.org. So, I'm well aware this isn't going to benefit everyone. I mostly want to do it as a learning experience for myself and as a way to throw a bone to my fellow Mac users. But, if there's simply no interest, then it's probably no worth my time.
What do you think? Anyone interested?
As you know, Iv'e been working on hard (along with James and with input form the rest of the staff) on the new NewBeetle.org homepage. I think you all are really going to like it. It should be ready in the next few weeks.
At that point, I'll be looking for my next project for the site, and I was thinking it might be cool to do a Mac OS X Dashboard widget. Now, as a disclaimer, I've not written any Dashboard widgets to date, so I could get into it and find it's way more trouble than it's worth -- but at least in theory, it seems doable.
As for what would be on it: I haven't thought it through too much yet, but I'm thinking like your subscribed threads, your buddy list, your private messages, and maybe another thing or two. The idea would be to notify you when your threads are updated, when you get PMs, when your buddies come online, etc.
What I want to know from you guys is how many people would be interested in this. We're sitting at about 8% Mac users here at NewBeetle.org. So, I'm well aware this isn't going to benefit everyone. I mostly want to do it as a learning experience for myself and as a way to throw a bone to my fellow Mac users. But, if there's simply no interest, then it's probably no worth my time.
What do you think? Anyone interested?