The Generator on that link looks quite interesting as well as Singles; however the Apple Dashboard downloads page is still live - https://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/ - would it be worth harvesting it to keep for when it's taken down?
About Widgetops Universal Google Gadget Widget
With Widgetop’s Universal Google Gadget Widget you can convert and run any Google gadget to run on your desktop.
Steps to run Google Gadgets on your Desktop:
1. Put the Google Gadget Widget on your desktop.
2. Go to the Google Gadget directory and press the “Add to webpage” button then “Get the Source” button to display the src code in the text box below.
3. Copy and paste the src code contained between the speechmarks in src=”” code sections.
4. Paste the Gadget src code into the backside of our widget converter.
5. Flip the widget back over to see your Google Gadget running on your desktop.
What’s New in this Version
- Updated to support new Google API changes
Quote: In a sign of good faith, I have refunded all payments made this year and I am providing final (and free) versions of my current products below. I am also releasing the source code for all my products under the MIT license, so that others may choose to continue that which I have chosen to stop.
This repo contains three projects based on the same codebase:
Amnesty, the original application I released in 2005 days after the release of Tiger. Unlike a lot of misinformation passed around following its release, Amnesty is not a wrapper for the "dev mode trick." Rather, Amnesty is a reverse engineered, feature complete version of Apple's Dashboard server. This allowed a number of unique features: giving Konfabulator-like features to widgets (desktop level, opacity), advanced compositing (rotation and scaling) and allowing widgets to run on Panther (a feature no longer functional as of this build).
Amnesty Screen Saver, a simple demonstration of using the Amnesty engine to render a functional widget in an OS X Screen Saver.
Amnesty Singles, an "application builder" that allowed conversion of widgets into OS X applications (a bit less full featured than Amnesty, but more useful for a lot of users). Amnesty Singles includes a bundled "generic" application titled AmnestyClient that wraps the Amnesty engine. The Amnesty Singles process modifies the generic application plist with information detailing the bundled (or referenced) widget.
Incidentally, had Apple not included the "dev mode trick" in production versions of Tiger I would have become a rich man. Still, Amnesty is my most successful product from a sales and PR perspective (including a sidebar in David Pogue's Missing Manual for Tiger) and I'm glad so many people were able to enjoy it.
Danny Espinoza is also the author of Stainless browser
