Widget Watch: Return of the Lava Lamp widget

I ran across this quirky story over at the always entertaining Australian daily newspaper "The Age" and thought I'd share. It's about Garry Barker's search for the elusive Lava Lamp widget.

The widget is called "I Love Lamp" and can be downloaded at iSlayer.com. Despite being ranked as the #1 widget over at Apple, it suddenly disappeared a few months ago. Barker writes that the widget was pulled by Apple after receiving a cease and desist order from LavaWorld, the real-life Lava Lamp manufacturer. After hammering out a deal, the widget has returned and now includes a link to LavaWorld. Ah lawyers, how they enhance our lives.

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Source: http://www.theage.com.au/news/macman/missing-in-action/2007/…

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I ran across this quirky story over at the always entertaining Australian daily newspaper "The Age" and thought I'd share. It's about Garry...

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Marc Edwards

Victor: If your widget blows up we'll gladly fed-ex you a replacement. Please note that we don't hold stock of discontinued colours, so you'll have to choose from the currently available options :P

Now might be a good time to mention that the LavaWorld people have been amazing right from the start. There's no animosity at all about their need to protect their trademark... things like that are very much "use it or lose it" and we respect that completely.

Some more good news: Things have been going well and it's looking very likely that the widget will be around for a long time to come. If you'd like to show some support for the widget, then please click through to the LavaWorld online store and have a look around. Every bit helps.

February 11 2007 at 10:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply