After much feedback and incredible interest in Golf Tips I’m glad to announce version 1.1. It’s a minor release which includes the following new features:
- New tip displayed whenever Dashboard is activated
- Darker background color makes tips easier to read
- Ability to click on golf ball to get new tip
I’m amazed at the amount [...]

I was working on finishing version 1.1 of my Golf Tips widget and ran into a little problem. I’ve been adding the functionality to click on the golf ball to get a new tip. The problem was that the requests appeared to be cached and each request after the first would return an [...]

So it’s been a little over a week since I released my Golf Tips widget. To my amazement it’s received over 5,000 downloads! I’m currently working on the next minor version which has a darker background color due requests from users. The white text on the light green background is a bit [...]

My Golf Tips widget was approved on the Apple downloads site. You can check it out and download a copy here:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/golftips.html

Sometimes I get carried away and work on stuff that might be considered completely useless and assumes no monetary value. Sometimes I just have to take on a project for the challenge and the benefit of learning. When I purchased the latest version of OS X (Tiger) a couple of weeks ago I [...]