A little while ago… actually… wow… nearly a year ago… I hacked up a little Mac Dashboard widget for the podcast. It was my first experience with Dashcode.

Since I’m cleaning and enhancing the site I thought I’d refresh the widget, and host it here on the blog.

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I’ll be adding a page of tools, icons, badges and goodies soon, and the widget will eventually live there. For now, you can go ahead and download it directly here. It’s for Mac OS X 10.4.3 and upwards only. If you’ve got the old version installed then this one should offer to replace the existing version.

So what’s the point of the widget? Well, if you don’t subscribe to our podcast feed, or you just want to be able to pull up the Dashboard and get a list of the episodes and choose one to play, you can do so using the widget. By the way, you don’t have to leave the Dashboard open while the episode plays, you can just start it playing and go back to whatever you were doing before. The widget also has a quick link to the website in case you ever forget the URL :-)