Are you one of those who assumed that Mac OS X Dashboard widgets will be on your iPhonesince it is running on Mac OS X too only to be shocked that the only widgets available were three basic widgets.

No problem, Erica Sudan over at Tuaw seems to have (almost) figured out how to get the Mac OS X Dashboard widgets by hacking iphone.

If you’d like to give this a try, download a copy of Widgets.app with the following understanding:

1. Widgets uses the XLaunch icon and splash screen and the Unknown icon is the wrong size. Sorry about that.
2. You must install System/Library/WidgetResources from your Mac onto the iPhone. Same folder, same name, same contents. Most Widgets will not run properly without these support files.
3. Install your widgets into /var/root/Library/Widgets on the iPhone. Widgets.app runs plain old ordinary OS X widgets. You must copy over the entire file structure, so scp -r YourWidget.wdgt root@youriphoneip:/var/root/Library/Widgets is going to be your best bet. And yes, you need to create the Widgets folder if it does not yet exist.

Posted on September 18th, 2007 by admin
Filed under: iPhone News, iPhone Tips