{"id":8671,"date":"2010-06-16T16:44:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/dashpad_app_store_alternative_to_get_weather_widget.html"},"modified":"2010-06-16T16:44:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:44:38","slug":"dashpad-app-store-alternative-to-get-weather-widget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/dashpad-app-store-alternative-to-get-weather-widget.html","title":{"rendered":"DashPad App Store Alternative to Get Weather Widget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/apple\/dashpad-brings-widgets-to-ipad-via-safari.html\">wrote about<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=Dashpad\">DashPad<\/a> environment from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=PXL+Creations\">PXL Creations<\/a> which allows iPad users to utilize Safari instead of the App Store to install widgets which multitask and allow you access to a bunch of tools like a calculator, notepad, calendar, searching in Google, the Yellow Pages and more. One request I made in a post on the matter was I hope that a weather widget would come soon. It seems the company will oblige me as I heard word late last night from company president Charles Carver that the weather widget is next to be released &#8211; along with performance improvements.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a widget lover and have an iPad, $10 will get you access to a wonderful alternative to the Apple App Store. And yes, I know &#8211; I am the same guy who just <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/apple\/apple-app-store-the-opec-of-the-west.html\">praised<\/a> the App Store for all it will do to help the US economy &#8211; but no one can accuse me of not providing you all the alternatives. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mt-static\/plugins\/FCKeditor\/fckeditor\/editor\/images\/smiley\/msn\/teeth_smile.gif\" \/><br \/>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline;\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/pxl-creations-dashpad-ipad-thumb-500x375-7487.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" style=\"\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/pxl-creations-dashpad-ipad-thumb-500x375-7487-thumb-500x375-7488.png\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for pxl-creations-dashpad-ipad.png\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I wrote about the DashPad environment from PXL Creations which allows iPad users to utilize Safari instead of the App Store to install widgets which multitask and allow you access to a bunch of tools like a calculator, notepad, calendar, searching in Google, the Yellow Pages and more. One request I made in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,1680,158,172,162,196,206,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}