Make a Pandora Widget with the help of Safari
January 14th, 2010
I like to listen to music while I work. When my network allows I listen to Pandora. I always have the trouble of finding the Pandora tab among my million open tabs when I would like to learn he artist or song title. So today I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be great if I had a widget? After searching the web I did not find a ready-made widget but I learned how easy it is to make one yourself. Now this method is not rocket science: it is height the feature built-in Safari.
Here’s how you can make yourself a Pandora widget:
- Open Safari (have no idea if this works on Windows, if someone can confirm, I’d appreciate)
- Navigate to Pandora.com
- Go to File/Open in Dashboard
- Select the area you’d like to clip, then hit “Add”
- Click the “i” on your new widget to take off the check box marker on “Only play audio in Dashboard”.
Now, you have a full functioning Pandora widget. Mine is very small so I can only play the currently selected album or pause it, adjust volume and fast forward. Yours can be whatever you’d like it to be.
I had no idea one could do this.
Thanks for the tip!
Now, if only we could share these widgets with others.
I have a website http://www.swing-thing.com, and would like to create a widget for some of the features buried in that site that I could make available for public download. If you happen to hear of a way to do that, let me (us) know okay?
Thanks again!
Tim, I’d need to see what happens if I log out. On the other hand if you make the widget of a page that handles logging in from a small window (aka mobile site) then your problem should be solved. Just an idea.