Hey, have you heard about Yahoo! Pipes?
From: http://pipes.yahoo.com
Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
Like Unix pipes, simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs. Here are a few popular ways the service can be used:
To learn more about Pipes, and how you can use it, visit the Pipes Documentation.
Sound great?
Finally I have tried to build up a pipe for Global CyberSoft, it's very cool and easy, in just a minute you can have your own feeds 
Try it here: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=a7d8303c036a025a1a6a447ffebb3f39
You have seen the dashboard in iPhone UI or in Mac OS X UI. The following code snippet shows you how to create a dashboard in iPhone native application.
The code is Object C format
- (UIButtonBar *)createButtonBar
{
UIButtonBar *myButtonBar;
myButtonBar = [[UIButtonBar alloc]
initInView: self
withFrame: CGRectMake(10.0f, 380.0f, 300.0f, 100.0f)
withItemList: [self buttonBarItemList]];
[myButtonBar setDelegate: self];
// This set the style of the bar
[myButtonBar setBarStyle: 3];
// This set the tracking mode (effect when clicking on the button of the bar)
[myButtonBar setButtonBarTrackingMode: 1];
int buttons[3] = { 1, 2, 3 };
[myButtonBar registerButtonGroup: 0 withButtons: buttons withCount: 3];
[myButtonBar showButtonGroup: 0 withDuration: 0.0];
/* This set the layout of the button */
int tag;
for (tag = 1; tag < 4; tag++)
{
[[myButtonBar viewWithTag: tag]
setFrame: CGRectMake(10.0f + ((tag-1)*(80.0 + 10.0)), 1.0f, 100.0f, 80.0f)
];
}
return myButtonBar;
}
The item list of the button bar
- (NSArray *)buttonBarItemList
{
return [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@"buttonBarClicked:", kUIButtonBarButtonAction,
@"button_back.png", kUIButtonBarButtonInfo,
@"button_back_pressed.png", kUIButtonBarButtonSelectedInfo,
[NSNumber numberWithInt: 1], kUIButtonBarButtonTag,
self, kUIButtonBarButtonTarget,
@"Page 1", kUIButtonBarButtonType,
@"0", kUIButtonBarButtonType,
nil
],
[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@"buttonBarClicked:", kUIButtonBarButtonAction,
@"button_open.png", kUIButtonBarButtonInfo,
@"button_open_pressed.png", kUIButtonBarButtonSelectedInfo,
[NSNumber numberWithInt: 2], kUIButtonBarButtonTag,
self, kUIButtonBarButtonTarget,
@"Page 2", kUIButtonBarButtonType,
@"0", kUIButtonBarButtonType,
nil
],
[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@"buttonBarClicked:", kUIButtonBarButtonAction,
@"button_next.png", kUIButtonBarButtonInfo,
@"button_next_pressed.png", kUIButtonBarButtonSelectedInfo,
[NSNumber numberWithInt: 3], kUIButtonBarButtonTag,
self, kUIButtonBarButtonTarget,
@"Page 3", kUIButtonBarButtonType,
@"0", kUIButtonBarButtonType,
nil
],
nil];
}
The click message, which will handle the click event of the button bar
- (void)buttonBarClicked: (id) sender
{
}
And you will got a nice UI like this
That's all, Have fun with iPhone & Object C coding
Anything else? Fix me, please
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