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Graphite is a free widget for Apple’s Dashboard. You give it a website and a number on that site, and it will track and graph changes to that number over time. Here’s a few sample graphs.

Current features:

• Three-click graphs: open a site in Safari, click ‘Discover URL,’ then ‘Discover Text’ and click the number you want to graph.
• Multiple lines on the same graph – up to five.
• Multiple instances for different graphs – infinite.
• Automatic scaling – any values between zero and a trillion. (Scaling for very small decimals still needs work.)
• Color coding – click on the preferences tab to change a line’s color.
• Saved values – closed graphs will remember previous values, and lines can be shared between graphs.

Planned improvements include:

• RegEx support – (optionally) replace Pre-text and Post-text fields with a regular expression, for the more technical.
• Specific values – show actual value(s) for a given point on the graph.
• Graph sharing – see what other people are graphing.
• Your suggestions.

What’s New:
Version 0.5 added support for decimal numbers.

Developer’s website: Scott Reynen