Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex - is being was released on October 30th!
It’s has some really cool upgrades, such as sporting Gnome 2.24, X.Org 7.4, the ability to encrypt your home directory, a new guest session feature and a network manager with system-wide settings. Get it now!
iSlayer’s newest widget - Organized - brings multiple widgets into one. In my mind, it takes the place of the official iCal widget, the iCal Events widget, the World Clock widget, and on top of that, adds a dashboard version of the iPhone Notes application.
The widget is freely available and can be downloaded from iSlayer’s site, or from Apple’s download center. Click the image to the left for several images of the widget in action.
And while we’re talking about iSlayer, if you don’t already have the iStat pro widget, check it out! It’s a great widget for monitoring all your system stats in the same convenient place: Your Dashboard.
Today, thanks to a mention on twitter by @JesseStay, I found Wordle. I think I’ll be using it quite a bit!
Wordle is basically a nice-looking tag cloud. The one to the right (click for full size) is a cloud based off of the words on this blog! You can enter a URL or put in a bunch of words in order to generate one. You can also choose weather you want all of the text horizontal, some horizontal, all vertical, or every which way.
In preparation for Apple’s media event tomorrow (10/14/08) I added a web-clipping of twitlive.tv to my dashboard (in hopes that Leo will be allowed to do a live web-stream). I’m very excited for the event and I think there will be some pretty cool stuff revealed, but I want to know, what are your favorite Dashboard widgets? I’d love to hear your opinion, please post a comment (a link to an image would be great too) about your favorite dashboard widget. Hopefully this can be a great resource for everyone to find cool new widgets.
I’ll start, on my dashboard I have (left to right, top to bottom):
You can install it just like any other WordPress plugin (move the contents of the plugin to blog-root/wp-content/plugins replacing blog-root with the directory you installed WordPress to), then you can edit the way you would like it to appear on the device. For the image to the right, I changed the colors to match my normal theme (for a consistent appearance).
You can download the plugin from this page.
If you want to know how to make a custom icon when you save a link to the home-screen of your iPhone/iPod Touch, see this post.
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