This is an idea which crossed my mind a while back, but despite the best intentions I’ve not found any time to work on it.

Basically, what I want to do it script things up so that I can export a dashboard widget to a image file, then have it automatically uploaded to my phone (via bluetooth) whenever it come into range.

The original idea crossed my mind while walking to work, thinking about what to do on the weekend, and wishing I had dashboard’s weather widget to tell me what the weather was going to be.

Now I’m sure there are a million and one other ways I could use my mobile phone to get a weather forecast, but it seems like one of those things which would be just as easy to upload whenever the phone was in range as to have the phone somehow pull from the network.

Anyway, the first stumbling block, which I only ever put an hour or so into, was finding a way to export a widget to an image file. Obviously, given the time, I could write something on top of webkit to do this, but if anyone has a ‘minimal amount of work’ trick to get this done I’d love to hear about it.

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