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Make a WebClip with Safari

Sometimes I find myself surfing to certain websites daily. Usually, there is only one part of that website that interests me. In Safari 3, I can take a snapshot of any website and make it into a Dashboard Widget easily with WebClips. The new Widget will automatically update as the website does, allowing me to just press F12 to Open Dashboard and look at all the websites I usually visit in one shot.

To make any section of a website into a Dashboard widget all I need to do is Open Safari and surf to the website I wish to capture. I visited the Apple Start Page for this example.

Click the WebClip button that is directly left of the Address bar. Safari will now darken the window except for a highlighted region. Anywhere I hover the mouse over will become highlighted.

I can hover above headlines and whole text boxes will become highlighted. If I click a highlighted region, it will become selected and nodes will appear on the corners. I can resize and position the highlighted region now. Sometimes I may want to clip a region of a website, so if I hover over any section of the site where the background is showing a standard sized box will appear.

Click the Add Button to Create a WebClip.

Dashboard will now load the WebClip…

I can change the border style of the WebClip by pressing the i button in the lower right hand corner of the Widget. The Widget will flip over and reveal the border styles. Click Done and the Widget will flip back over.