[leskern]

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[SajidAzmi]

What's the use of a pretty clock image ... waste of time, better find or wait till someone designs a working MickeyMouse clock for the dashboard.

[LexFriedman]

SajidAzmi, on 08 November 2011 - 06:22 AM, said:

What's the use of a pretty clock image ... waste of time, better find or wait till someone designs a working MickeyMouse clock for the dashboard.

It's a ticking clock.

Also, it uses your Mac's time zone, if set properly.

[Josesk]

mike2000, on 08 November 2011 - 05:00 AM, said:

I must be doing something wrongly is the add Mickey Mouse does't work on my iMAC, or on the 13' MacBook.

Any ideas?

Mike2000

Press "Option" and hover your cursor over any widget. An "x" appears and you can remove widgets one at a time.

[mrhipster]

Be careful !! I tried this on Snow Leopard 10.6.8, it installed properly, but then Beach ball and everything started crashing,
and finally had to delete and reboot. Did not get along with my Intel iMac, sorry !

[empedro]

DMBDenver, on 08 November 2011 - 06:03 AM, said:

Neat trick, and thanks for noticing that the clock is ticking! However, the clock is locked into one specific time zone. Unless you just want to see Mickey's hands move, you need to be in the same time zone to have a functional clock.

I am having no problems here in Australia, currently the web clip shows the same time as the time zone I live in. At this time of the year, different states & territories have 5 different time zones. This reverts to 3 zones when daylight savings time is finished at the end of March.

[iMosaic]

empedro, on 08 November 2011 - 08:36 AM, said:

DMBDenver, on 08 November 2011 - 06:03 AM, said:

Neat trick, and thanks for noticing that the clock is ticking! However, the clock is locked into one specific time zone. Unless you just want to see Mickey's hands move, you need to be in the same time zone to have a functional clock.

I am having no problems here in Australia, currently the web clip shows the same time as the time zone I live in. At this time of the year, different states & territories have 5 different time zones. This reverts to 3 zones when daylight savings time is finished at the end of March.

Works fine for me too in Chicago!

[asfmacdude]

I love it! Thanks!

[ChrisMakepeace]

flybynight, on 08 November 2011 - 05:42 AM, said:

Will this continue working if/when Apple changes their nano page? Is the widget self-contained, or does it reference back to the source page, which may change in the future?

No, it's a web clip and relies on an Internet connection. I checked this by pulling my network lead and disabling WiFi... no clock, just a 'Web clip not available' message. Not worth trying to straighten it, then!

[Pixelure]

Love it!!!
Is there any way to get this clock on my Desktop as opposed to having to launch Dashboard to view it?
Thanks very much.

[Fofer]

That the "Mickey Mouse clock face on Apple’s website is created entirely using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and a few images—but no Flash" has NOTHING TO DO with why this trick works. You can just as easily grab Flash elements from websites and get them to display in Dashboard, too. I just did it with a YouTube (Flash) video.

That's not to say the Mickey Mouse clock isn't a very cool display of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I'm just saying, that those ingredients weren't a "requirement" to get it to work with Dashboard.

[rlhamil]

mabunge, on 08 November 2011 - 06:17 AM, said:

Cool enough; but what if what I really wanted was to get a clock onto the Desktop?

google for

widget on the desktop

It can be done. Lion is a special case (you may need to set a preference to have Dashboard behave like it used to). Or there's a commercial (about $10) app that can convert widgets into true apps.


And if it's all JavaScript, image, HTML, and so on, someone with a suitable image editing tool could probably fix it to be upright, and adjust the JavaScript to have the hands line up accordingly, although I haven't actually tried.

[photofoot]

I cannot seem to capture just the clock. When I make the white box fit over the clock, click on add, and I get a different area of the screen. Usually it is the image above of the music note. I could only get the clock is I choose a very large area, including several of the icons. Any suggestions?

[Gadjett]

redgeminipa, on 08 November 2011 - 04:31 AM, said:

jfscott, on 08 November 2011 - 04:04 AM, said:

Lex,
You forgot to mention how Mickey is removed from Dashboard should I decide to do so. Thanks...JS

Open Dashboard

Click the Open (+) button to open the widget bar.

To remove a widget from your computer, click its Remove (x) button, and then click OK. Widgets that are preinstalled with Mac OS X don’t have Remove buttons.

My MM watch neither tells time, nor has a (x) button with which to remove it! Has the little (i) with which to edit it???