Here’s a thing I made using HTML, JavaScript, CSS and the Guardian Open Platform content API: Guardian Snapshot, an OS X Dashboard widget.
Once installed to your Dashboard, the widget will download the latest article headlines, plus the latest gallery and videos published in several sections of the guardian. Clicking the headlines will open the links in your web browser of choice.
Some caveats: in this first release you can’t edit the list of sections (unless you want to open the widget up in Dashcode and edit the list yourself), and there is no auto-refreshing beyond the initial load — subsequent refreshes must be done manually via the orange icon in the top right. Also, I haven’t tested this a lot, so if it causes your computer to explode or accidentally downloads headlines from the Daily Mail, I apologise.
Download it here: Guardian Snapshot Dashboard widget (500kb)
Update
On Macs with Safari 4 installed there’s a bug where clicking links will open multiple browser tabs instead of just one. I’ve got a fix for that and will update in a few hours.
This bug has been fixed, download again if you’re having trouble.
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Dates in this might be broken at the moment, not sure why but they’re all coming out as ‘undefined’, annoyingly.