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Community News
20 November 2007
Last week saw some great action on basic tasks that this wiki, any wiki really, needs. Adam spent some good energy reverting bad edits. Nathan worked on shortening Long Pages and per our AdultContentPolicy flagged many pages . Nick showed everyone how to use images in headers and William showed how to tweak the MapMashup.
In addition to those important activities, two really BIG questions happened. First off, new to AboutUs, Patty asked a bunch of good questions, like: What is AboutUs, what can I do here?. Hopefully some of those questions got resolved for her, and her questioning will help clarify for everyone. Long time active member Simon is pointing out a major challenge we still have in front of us: how we make changes and communicate them in this wiki. It is a year old question, what are your thoughts?
Web Clip AboutUs items
8 November 2007
Visitors to our home page probably know about our "presence" meters which list the people who recently have been active on our site as well as the most recently edited WikiPages on AboutUs.
Well, using a cool function in Leopard's Safari web-browser, you can create mini "Web Clips" from any website that become little widgets in Apple's Dashboard. You can use this function on nearly any website, and AboutUs is no exception.
Some of us at AboutUs have already started playing with this feature, making Web Clip Dashboard items from such things as calendars on AboutUs, favorite Portals, lists of AboutUs pages we're working on and more. But the most common and interesting use case for an AboutUs Web Clip is the aforementioned "presence meters". Because the Web Clip in the Dashboard is dynamic, it gives you a birds-eye view of what's happening on AboutUs at any particular moment, letting you easily check to see if a user in online or see what pages have been edited. (And although you have to use the Safari-browser to set up the Web Clip, once it's in your Dashboard, links clicked on will open in your default browser like Firefox or Camino.)
Steps
1. Load AboutUs.org into your Safari web browser.
2. Find something to turn into a dashboard widget. The "Currently Online" or "Wiki pages just edited" on the home page make great widgets to keep up on what's happening on AboutUs.
3. Click the Web Clip icon in the upper left hand corner of Safari.
4. A little box appears. Highlight the AboutUs content you want to turn into a AboutUs Web Clip.
5. Adjust the box to get everything you want.
6. Click "Add" and wait a few seconds. OS X Leopard will open up the Dashboard and your AboutUs Web Clip will appear momentarily.
Adjusting
Sometimes boxes on AboutUs change their shape or location. If you need to make slight adjustments to your Web Clipped dashboard item, Apple makes it easy for you.
1. Access the Dashboard on your Mac by clicking the F12 button.
2. Click the "info button" on your dashboard clipping and click the "Edit" option.
3. You can now expand or collapse the web clipping's window just like any other window.
Removing
1. In the Dashboard (F12), click the plus sign at the lower left of your screen.
2. This will change the "+" to an "X" and add "X"s to all of your Dashboard items.
3. Just click the "X" on the item(s) you wish to remove.
4. Click the "X" at the lower left hand corner to exit the "manage widgets" mode, or just use F12 to get out of the Dashboard.
Contibutor: TakKendrick