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Place our Senate recount widget on your own web page
Stay up to date with the latest Senate recount news and vote totals by putting our embedable widget on your blog or Facebook page.
What’s a widget?
A widget is portable tool that contains continuously updated information that you can share and add to your social networks, web site, blog or desktop.
The widget is a quick and easy way to access the StarTribune.com’s U.S. Senate recount news on the sites that you regularly visit.
To get this widget:
Click on the Grab It! Button.
You will see options such as Post, Bookmark, Email and Desktop.
TO POST: To post the widget to a social network, pick one of the icons displayed. Click More to see all the social networks.
To post the widget on any web site: Click on the Embed Code or click on the copy button to copy the code and paste into the Web site.
TO BOOKMARK: To bookmark the widget on a social networking site, click on the Bookmark option. Then pick which social network on which you would like to bookmark the widget. Use the More and Previous buttons to tab through the options.
TO EMAIL: You can click on Manual and type in your friend's email address there. To email the widget to your contacts, pick your email program in the dropdown list. Then enter your username and password. To remember contacts, check off that box. Then click Import. The email login info you enter will never be saved.
TO ADD TO DESKTOP: You must have Vista Sidebar or Yahoo Widgets installed on your PC in order to run the StarTribune.com widget on your desktop. When installing via Desktop (Air) App, a prompt box automatically pops up to install the desktop application if you don't already have it.
Choose Vista Sidebar, Yahoo Widgets or Desktop App.
A window should open allowing you to open, install and run the gadget file.
If the window does not open, the widget will allow you to copy and paste the code into an Internet browser window. Paste that code into a browser window, then open, install in run the gadget file.
When you're finished getting the widget, click on the X in the upper right-hand corner of the widget to go back to the main widget page.
You’re finished!
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