Remember those cute and overachieving bunnies tagged as the Nabaztag Bunny? In case you aren't familiar with it, this cutesy contraption has been tirelessly packaged as the world's first intelligent bunny which can teach you tai chi, read your e-mail, report the weather or stock market, pull RSS feeds and tell you the time.

Nabaztag can move his ears, play music, talk and whistle, and his body can show off hundreds of colors and special patterns of light, and could also "marry" other Nabaztag bunnies, so don't be too possessive.

With this cutesy thingamajig in mind, GravityGirl decided to make her first Dashboard Widget for Tiger 10.4.x. The product of her sweat and hardwork is the Nabaztag Dashboard Widget which would allow you to control your very own Nabaztag wi-fi bunny, or that of someone else if they give you their API serial number and Token.

According to her, "the first release (v1.0) appears to be stable, but some inconsistencies have been found when an invalid serial or token are used." Here are the list of controls and options.

• controls: on the front of the widget are the ear buttons, a text-to-speech window, and a "go" button to send your text

• on the back of the widget, you will need to enter your serial number and your token. You have the options to control:
• refresh: the amount of time between when it automatically checks your nabaztag to see if someone has moved its ears
• voice: your choice of two French and six English speaking voices.
• ear buttons: the transparency level of the ear buttons. They will still work when fully transparent, they are just not easy to find.
  

She also wants to give credit to Nyami's Widget, apparently this is where she got the idea to make this one. She borrowed the images from Nyami's widget, but had to re-code everything except the regexp statements "because Apple's dashboard uses different calls than the yahoo engine."

Download: [Nabaztag Dashboard Widget v1.0]

Designed by UI expert Piotr Gajos, iClip features stylish graphics and animation that have won a couple of awards. Now another talented Mac theme artist, Pe8er, has come up with a free dashboard widget of the popular software.

iClip lite is a free multiple clipboard and scrapbook widget that will help Mac users improve their efficiency and productivity with tasks done on their computer. Quickly store and retrieve bits of information (i.e. text, pictures, Internet addresses) in the iClip lite's multiple "clip bins".

Now on v2.0, iClip lite is easy to use. The latest version is a universal binary that allows automatic Clipboard recording and widget resizing. The bins have also been increased from 20 to 25 in v2.0. Since users of the previous release of iClip lite saw blank bins, the developer of this widget has fixed the said bug. Other minor bug fixes and enhancements are also included in this new, stylish-looking version.

If your Mac is running on OS X 10.4 or later and you'd want to try iClip lite, feel free to give it a go - download link is below. Enjoy!

Download: [iClip lite v2.0]

Desktop Stats is trying to put all parts of the gamercard function and display on your Mac OS X desktop with their widget, OS X Dashboard Gamercard. The application is now at v1.2 where a few fixes - like the refreshing of the gamercard - has been included. The widget now allows you to enter your gamertag automatically upon first installing it. You will also have preferences that will save your gamertag so that it don't get lost on a reboot or log-off. A few people who've tried this widget tagged it as "cool". So go ahead and download OS X Dashboard Gamercard v1.2 to see another great widget go into your MAC OS X!

Download: [OS X Dashboard Gamercard v1.2]

Developers of Art Director's Toolkit, Code Line Communicators, gives us a handy widget (collective name for buttons, sliders,menu bars, and title bars) within your Dashboard. This allows tools and features of their application to be more accessible.

According to the Apple site: It can search through thousands of color swatches in industry-standard libraries, view characters and keyboard equivalents of fonts, sample colors on-screen, convert fractions/decimals/units of measure, calculate file sizes, and much more. However, the widget only comes with a copy of Art Director's Toolkit 5. If you're interested in trying it out, click on the read link below.

Source: Pocket-lint

Harman Kardon has launched a new device aimed at iPod users who donÂ?t have a cassette deck in their car stereo to allow them to enjoy their hard drive based player.

Called Drive + Play, the unit promises complete iPod control, including full browsing and playlist handling capability, while minimizing distractions for drivers.

The unit comes in three pieces; a control knob, a LCD display and a box of tricks that Harman Kardon is calling a Â?BrainÂ?.

The backlit LCD screen, large enough to present five lines of iPod menu text and attaches to your dashboard. The five-button navigation control unit with universal mounting options mimics the iPodÂ?s user interface and can be mounted on the center console or other location for easy access while driving. The controller features four buttons that control the play/pause, forward, backward and iPod menu functions; a rotating dial around the perimeter that can be used for forward and backward scrolling; and a center button for the Â?enterÂ? command.

3. Â?The brainÂ? serves as an information processor and connecting port. The brain houses a wired FM transmitter with five factory-set frequencies and one definable by the user. It will also offer a 3.5mm audio output jack. The Drive + Play charges the iPod when docked.

Harman Kardon has yet to set a price for the Drive + Play, however the company estimates it will cost in the region of £169 and include a voucher to have it professional installed. It is likely to be available in November 2005.

Cyan's Image Chamber has released TunesTEXT v0.3.3, a freeware Dashboard widget for Mac OS X "Tiger" users. TunesTEXT displays the lyrics of the song currently playing in iTunes. If there is no local lyric information for a given track, the widget will search and download lyrics from the internet. TunesTEXT supports songs both in English and Japanese.

You can get it in our iPod Download Section.