Saturday, February 17, 2018

Desktop Refs

It would be nice if one could have wholly personnalized
apps on the desktop. This would mean - for example, with weather -
'lifting' the data from an established site, to display in one's own.
A task for PHP, a server-side language for elaborate cases,
which returns requests in htlm. Or a simple re-direct with http,
for the simpler ones. Hmmm!

In the meantime, one can create an app of sorts from a site one likes
on Google Chrome. One goes to the site of choice, opens the tools
panel, and asks for a desktop icon. The cost in megabytes to one's system
is minimal. Below:








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