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Get widgets for your iPhone from Widgetbox

My name is Lisa and I'm a widget junkie.

I love having widgets of all kinds on my iMac -- even things like the Ski Report (I live in Florida), ESPN (it's not football season), and Flight Tracker (I rarely fly). I even have similar ones (though Apple calls them webapps) on my iPod Touch. Since I've exhausted all the webapps for the touch that I'm interested in, I was glad to hear Widgetbox announced a gallery of widgets just for iPhone and the iPod touch users. Check it out via any browser, or right from your iPhone.

Now, most widgets are Flash-based, but these aren't and therefore don't use Apple's SDK, but they're cool and work well nevertheless. Among my favorites are the Yahoo! News RSS feeds, Random Quote Generator, and the Flickr slideshow.

While there's not a ton of widgets available just yet, there are around 32,000 developers in the Widgetbox community so I suspect the gallery will be populated pretty quickly. There's even a short video tutorial on how to make the iPhone widgets, in case you're curious -- or motivated.

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My name is Lisa and I'm a widget junkie. I love having widgets of all kinds on my iMac -- even things like the Ski Report (I live in...
 

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jason

check out this apple analyst roundup

April 24 2008 at 3:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Isaac Z. Schlueter

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most widgets are Flash-based, but these aren't and therefore don't use Apple's SDK
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Um.... That kind of makes no sense. Actually, scratch that. Not "kind of". Yeah, that makes not even a little sense.

SDK stands for "Software Development Kit." It means that Apple has given developers tools to write and compile programs that run natively on the iPhone.

IE, they're not flash. They're regular programs.

April 24 2008 at 2:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Reefdog

Ditto Isaac. I can't make head nor tail of what that's supposed to mean.

April 24 2008 at 3:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joel Bechtolt

Great writing style, Lisa.

April 24 2008 at 2:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chandler

If you like the Flickr widget, you may want to try out iPhlickr at www.iphlickr.com.

April 24 2008 at 1:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Piet Jonas

Check out Widgetop for Dashboard widgets on the iPhone as well.

April 24 2008 at 12:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Piet Jonas

http://m.widgetop.com

April 24 2008 at 12:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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