Apple posted a beta of their upcoming Dashcode development software for widgets earlier this month. A recent Apple Developer Connection News mailing started publicizing it.
Dashcode is a new application for developing Dashboard widgets coming in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Dashcode is everything you need to create great Dashboard widgets.
The final version will be shipping with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) but the currently released beta appears to run fine under Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
Much has been said about Apple's reluctance to allow 3rd party developers from freely releasing iPhone applications. One interesting possibility raised by Jason Snell is whether or not Apple will freely allow developers to deploy Widgets to the iPhone. A Widget essentially is a small web-based application (HTML, CSS, Javascript) and would be less likely to introduce any platform instability -- one of Steve Jobs concerns.
Wednesday March 18, 2026 7:39 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
While the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are not expected to launch for another six months or so, there are already plenty of rumors about the devices.
It was initially reported that the iPhone 18 Pro models would have fully under-screen Face ID, with only a front camera visible in the top-left corner of the screen. However, the latest rumors indicate that only one Face ID component...
Apple has unveiled a whopping eight new products so far this March, including an iPhone 17e, iPad Air models with the M4 chip, MacBook Air models with the M5 chip, MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, an updated Studio Display, a higher-end Studio Display XDR, and now the AirPods Max 2 this week.
iPhone 17e features the same overall design as the iPhone 16e, but it gains Apple's...
Wednesday March 18, 2026 11:56 am PDT by Juli Clover
Apple provided developers and public beta testers with the release candidate versions of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4, which means we're going to see a public launch as soon as next week. The RC versions of the software include Apple's official release notes, giving us final details on what's included in the update.
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