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Follow Dallas Cowboys from your Mac menu bar
Charmling hangs a hand-drawn charm on a real elastic cord under your menu bar. Switch on Live Scores, star Dallas Cowboys, and the charm rings a bell the moment the match turns — then shows you what happened on a brass split-flap board.
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What Dallas Cowboys looks like on the board.
What earns a bell
For NFL the board rings for a touchdown, a field goal, and the final whistle. A jump of six or more points is read as a touchdown and a jump of three as a field goal, which is right almost always and wrong on a two-point conversion that lands on the same tick.
You will not be woken by history. The first sight of a match in progress is never treated as an event, and Charmling deliberately forgets the old scoreboard when your Mac wakes — so opening the lid at tea does not fire a bell for every wicket that fell while it was shut.
How to set it up
- Install Charmling and let the charm hang under your menu bar.
- Control-click the charm and tick 🔔 Live Scores (needs internet). It is off until you do, and it shows you exactly what it will fetch before it fetches anything.
- Pick NFL under Sports to follow.
- Star the team. Open the board, find the match, tap it. That is the whole interface — no form, no search box, no account.
Want the score visible all day? Choose Scoreboard from 🎐 Choose Charm and the charm itself becomes the board, with the score beside your menu bar icon.
What it sends about you
Nothing. Every few seconds your Mac asks one fixed address for one scoreboard of every live match. That request has no query string, no account, no licence key and no identifier — there is nowhere in it to put which team you follow, so it never does. The board comes back and your Mac picks your match out of it here.
Live Scores is the only connection Charmling opens for content, and it is off until you switch it on. The full accounting is on the privacy page.
Get it
One Mac, no subscription, free updates. Seven days free to try, then $14.99 outright. Live Scores is included — there is nothing extra to buy. Needs macOS 13 or later.