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MTBcalendar Dashboard Widget

Find local MTB races via your Mac OS X Dashboard

This is a little dashboard widget which lets you see regional MTB race calendars from the MTB Calendar website.

Preview

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Installation

Installing the widget should be dead simple on a Mac OS X machine running 10.4.3 or higher.

If you’re using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you’re using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it (click twice on it) and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it. Alternately, you can just double-click on the uncompressed icon and Dashboard will prompt you to install it.

Please note, that this widget is only supported on Mac OS X. I may be creating a XP or Google or Yahoo! widget if there is any interest.

Usage

This widget will allow you to see upcoming MTB events that have been entered on the mtbcalendar.com site.

On the back of the widget (click the (i) in the lower right corner to see the back), there are three options:

To see more details about any race event, simply click on the events name on the front panel and it will take you to the appropriate page on the MTB Calendar website.

Configuration

The regions on the back panel pulldown menu basically refer to groups of states (or parts of states). The following list maps state abbreviations (or parts of states) to their pulldown menu region name:

Author

This dashboard widget was created by /k for the MTBcalendar website. /k also writes the NorCal MTB Racing Blog and occasionally gets to ride his bike.

Contact

Please send any comments or questions about this widget to norcalmtbracing AT gmail D0T com (and remember to replace AT with @ and D0T with .)

Download

The most current version of MTBcalendar widget is available at http://cloud.github.com/downloads/slashk/mtb-calendar-widget/MTBcalendar.zip.

Source

This widget was created with Apple’s Dashcode and follows most of their setup conventions.

The source is available via my GitHub account. You can clone the project with Git by running: 

$ git clone git://github.com/slashk/mtb-calendar-widget

Changelog

get the source code on GitHub: slashk/mtb-calendar-widget