Head’s up Howard Stern fans, it’s Eric the Widget! This is funny. For those who don’t follow the program Eric the Midget is considered among the most ungrateful wackpackers on the Howard Stern show. Now he’s really famous, he has his own Dashboard Widget.
Thanks Macenstein.
The Color Jack Dashboard Widget seeks to make it easier to pick out good colors:
simulates various forms of color blindness! Sphere uses color theory in order to provide you with visually appealing colors.
Need help keeping track of your application updates?
can automatically check for updates to your installed software. It supports Apple’s software directory, MacUpdate and Version Tracker.
Download Squad has a nice how to create an RSS feed widget:
Apple has taken the ease of use of Xcode and whittled it down to scale, providing all the tools necessary to quickly and easily develop your own Widgets.
Apple has a guide too on working with dashcode.
Tools needed
dashcode
It’s good to see Apple making this process more non-programmer friendly. This will expand the amount of widgets and possibly inspire people to learn programming. It’s always good to inspire people to learn more.
view your Google AdSense™ reports directly from your OS X Dashboard.
Xbox 360 gamers might want to check out the Desktop Stats Viewer v1.1 widget:
This widget by default, shows the most recent game in the upper right, however, if you hover over the images on the bottom, It will display the specifics of the game you are hovering over, in that container.
iStat Pro (free):
consisting of 9 sections which can be minimized, expanded or closed. It features detailed information on CPU, memory, hard drives, IP and external IP, bandwidth, CPU temperature, battery, uptime, temperatures and fans. You’ll know exactly what’s going on inside your mac!
The Google Blog announces that Apple has now released
… three Mac Dashboard Widgets that Google has created for OS X Tiger. The Blogger Widget enables quick and easy posting to your blog. Checking your Gmail inbox becomes a matter of pressing F12 with the Gmail Widget. And the Search History Widget allows you find that website you saw last week while searching Google.
foo - a template for creating your own Dashboard Widgets:
Features include a fading “i” button, “Done” button, automatic version string, a working random() method, xmlHttpRequest implementation, debugging methods and more!
Distributed free, with no license.
This is an old draft I had saved, but I’m finally getting a few minutes on my Mac after vacation and getting back. Bunch of .Mac mail to review including some stuff I sent over from the Windows mode. Wordpress dashboard widget. I also changed the title of the blog as I mentioned in the last post.
Just added two new dashboard widgets:
Dashflix - get updates on your Netflix queue
PHPQuickReference - type in a function name and get the PHP manual docs info. Handy for PHP programmers
TV Tracker is a really neat Dashboard widget from Monkey Business Labs that makes some really professionally done widgets:
Using this handy widget, you’ll start to notice all the shows that you could be watching right now.
After downloading you configure TV Tracker by adding your zip code, choosing your provider and then picking the channels you watch. Check out how this thing looks on my dashboard pictured above.