widgets.psu.edu Launched!

July 2007 -- More than 500,000 subscribers receive news about Penn State in their e-mail boxes through the Penn State Newswire, the companion Penn State Live Web site receives nearly 10,000 hits a day from people seeking information about the University, and RSS feeds deliver much of the same information directly to news web sites and individual subscribers.

Anyone who uses an Apple computer loaded with the OSX 10.4 (Tiger) operating system can get Penn State news from nearly 40 areas and campuses delivered right to the desktop with the new Penn State Live News widget.

Dashboard Widgets, which are mini-applications that perform common tasks and provide fast access to information, run through the operating system's Dashboard feature. The Penn State Live widget gives users the most recent Penn State headlines automatically. The headlines then link directly to the full stories on the Penn State Live Web site.

The first widget is Mac OS X Tiger only, but other cross-platform versions using the Konfabulator widget Javascript application are in development. Konfabulator can be downloaded for free at http://www.konfabulator.com

Keep checking for updates and additions. In the meantime be sure and check out our first widgets:

• Penn State Live
• Radar in Motion