Dashcode Beta Available for Download

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.