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Widget Maker X 1.0a3
Wikipedia 0.8.7 Wikipedia Browser Widget
iChatWidget 1.2 displays iChat Buddy List In Dashboard
dealmac Widget 2.0 Latest Deals From Dealmac, Dealnews, Dealcoupon
Gmail Counter 1.2 Widget Counts Storage Space In Gmail Accounts
The Art of John Dyer 1.0 Widget Displays 40 Paintings By UK Artist
Symphonic 1.0 Widget Provides Text-based Control Of iTunes
Widget Maker X 1.0a3
Modify/Create and manage your widgets. You can enable/disable widgets. You can modify widgets and save
New in this version:
• Added built in feedback or feature requests
• Fixed a 256 error
• Added in more exception handling
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
For more information, visit:
http://www.lajdesignsw.com/
Wikipedia 0.8.7 Wikipedia Browser Widget
A Dashboard widget for browsing Wikipedia. Search for articles and view from the Dashboard, complete with pictures and links. Now scroll-wheel and keyboard scrolling compatible.
It's finally summer here, and development has obviously slowed down. I was planning on putting some time in tonight, but I just got back from a 3.5 hour ride on my new bike and I'm pooped. The hills in Duluth are killer. I still have some big changes in store for the ol' widget, so stay tuned. I've been working on some changes to the site too, mostly a MySQL backend so I can stop manually editing this page's HTML. That'll be put into place soon, for the three of you that actually give a crap. Oh, one more thing. I would like to thank the handful of people that have made donations over the past month or so. You've all helped me purchase a GPS that I plan to use biking and kayaking quite a bit this summer (at the expense of widget development time, unfortunately...)
Features:
• Compatible with any language wikipedia, just enter the 2 (sometimes 3 or more) letter code on the back. Defaults to English.
• External links open in your preferred browser.
• Click the 'wikipedia' button to the left of the search field to open the current article or search term in Safari.
• The little '?' button to the left of the search field will pull a random article into the widget (Special:Randompage query).
• Back and forward buttons with page caching.
New in this version:
• Clicking the progress indicator cancels the article loading. Nice 'X' hover graphic forthcoming.
• Pressing Command-U will copy the URL of the currently showing article. This doesn't work properly with unicode characters yet.
• Table of Contents items don't appear as links anymore, because they didn't work anyway.
• Various bugfixes.
• This is a minor update, just to fulfill a couple specific requests. I axed the pesky 'beta' insignia; I don't think it needs it anymore.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4
Wikipedia is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.whatsinthehouse.com/widgets/
iChatWidget 1.2 displays iChat Buddy List In Dashboard
It baffles me that the OS X dashboard doesn't include an iChat widget. After all, the iChat buddy list is exactly the kind of thing that needs an occasional glance, but shouldn't be taking up desktop space.
So I wrote one. It does it's job well, and it's always improving. Download it from here. And, of course, leave your comments here.
Version 1.2 is now available, which adds Jabber and Bonjour support. See below for full change list.
Changes in Version 1.2:
--iCW now supports all services supported by iChat (AIM, .Mac, Jabber, Bonjour).
--iCW no longer slows down dashboard opening animation for users with long buddy lists
--Fixed a problem where iChatWidget-DashboardClient would crash if a buddy had a last name but no first name
--Fixed a problem where iChatWidget would move when the widget dock was opened.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4
AIM or .Mac account (doesn't currently work with Jabber or Bonjour)
iChatWidget is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.rocksandpaper.com/archive/2005/05/03/ichatter
dealmac Widget 2.0 Latest Deals From Dealmac, Dealnews, Dealcoupon
Dashboard Widget, for use with Apple's Mac OS X. This widget gets the latest deals from dealmac, dealnews, dealram, dealcoupon, and dealcam. You can choose from over a dozen feeds.
New in this version:
This version is completely new, and includes many improvements:
• You can enter a list of key words or phrases, and the widget will highlight those words in deal headlines
• Alternatively, the widget can completely omit deals which do not match any keywords (in other words, only the good stuff is shown)
• The popup menu of of feeds is now on the front of the widget, for easy access
• You can customize the popup menu, so the uninteresting feeds aren't in your way
• The widget can check for new versions of itself
• The widget is resizable and has scroll wheel support
• Automatic updating is more reliable
• You can update manually by clicking a button
• New appearance
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
dealmac Widget is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27198
Gmail Counter 1.2 Widget Counts Storage Space In Gmail Accounts
This simple and compact widget counts the maximum storage of each Gmail account.
New in this version:
Maintenance update.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
Gmail Counter is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.anythingyouwant.netfirms.com/
The Art of John Dyer 1.0 Widget Displays 40 Paintings By UK Artist
Now you can have 40 of John Dyer’s amazing paintings on your dashboard. Arrange them across your screen to hang your very own exhibition. The Widget contains paintings of Alan Titchmarsh’s and Kim Wilde’s gardens, many from the iconic Eden Project in the UK, including John’s latest painting for Live 8, as well as paintings from Costa Rica, the Philippines, France, Italy and the UK. The widget can be flipped over to reveal links to the fascinating ethno-botanical stories behind John’s work.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
The Art of John Dyer is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://andrew.hedges.name/widgets/index.html#johndyer
Symphonic 1.0 Widget Provides Text-based Control Of iTunes
Symphonic is your text based control to iTunes.
Why would you want this, you ask? For one simple reason: it's the most handy thing ever. Instant play. It's not ubiquitous search widget, it doesn't kick you out of dashboard, it just plays the song you want and it's almost never wrong. Interested?
There are many things that you just can't do with other iTunes controllers. There are many ways to search, and even more commands that will give you the control you need from iTunes quickly. Right from Dashboard.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
Symphonic is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.mindquirk.com/widgets/symphonic/index.htm
Charles W. Moore
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