Web Clips can be used to track any type of information that changes on a web page. Create a Web Clip of game scores so you can track your favorite team. Make a Web Clip of an eBay auction to keep track of bids as a deadline approaches. Visit a traffic route website and use a Web Clip to keep you informed on which highways may be the least congested when you want to find the fastest route somewhere, like going back home from work.
To save space, many news sites such as AOL (http://www.aol.com/) display a handful of top news stories as a constantly changing slideshow of pictures and links. By capturing this slideshow portion of the top headline news, you can keep up with the latest events and click a link in a Web Clip to open Safari and view the complete web page if you want.
Capture your favorite blog in a Web Clip so you can see updates as a Dashboard widget. If you're expecting a friend or relative to visit, you can capture a Web Clip of a flight's estimated arrival time from the airline's website so you can tell at a glance whether the flight is on time, late, or cancelled.
If you're a hard-core Macintosh fanatic, you can even visit a Macintosh rumor site, such as MacRumors (http://www.macrumors.com/), which often provides live coverage of conferences when Apple announces a new product. This live coverage provides up-to-the-minute updates as the conference occurs, so you can keep track of the latest iPhone or iMac announcements if you can't attend the conference in person.
Think of Web Clips as a way to turn your Macintosh into a personal news clipping service. As shown in Figure 39-6, Web Clips let you choose and view only the information that's most important to you from any number of websites.
