Here is a cool video of someone playing the original
Doom on a color iPod. While that part is cool - it's
where he hooks it up to an NES controller that makes
this mod freaking cool!
Apple is offering a beta version of
Dashcode, the widget development
environment, to Apple developers. Dashcode offers
visual editing and code views to develop your
widget. I haven't designed a widget yet, but
according to the text online the widgets will be
designed for Leopard or Mac OS 10.5. Dashcode has
a simple wizard allowing you to choose which type
of widget you want to create. You can choose from
8 different templates: Custom; Clock; RSS;
Podcast; Photocast; Quartz Composer; Daily Feed
and Guage. The program really looks promising and
I just may make my first widget with this. The
beta will stop working July 15th.
Here is a great page showing off Dashboard
with a small example.