Sunday, January 11, 2009

iPhone hack - Run OS X Dashboard widgets on your iPhone

OS X Widgets

1. Copy /System /Library /WidgetResources over to your iPhone
2. install your OS X widgets into /var /root /Library /Widgets (create this directory if it does not exist)
3. run Widgets.app

Move over all the files and do not rename any directories. Results vary depending on the widget. The Weather, ESPN, and Calendar widgets work great; the Flight Tracker, Dictionary and Phone Book are among the worst in compatibility. And yes, the irony doesn’t escape us that the Phone Book widget is terrible on the iPhone. Hopefully someone will add Widgets.app to AppTapp to make this hack even easier.