Once upon a time I wrote a dashboard widget called Twitgit. It lets you interact with Twitter from the Mac OSX Dashboard.

In the face of stiff competition from the Icon Factory’s magnificent Twitterific application, Twitgit has been rather neglected for over a year now. It’s hard to motivate yourself to write software that you don’t [...]

In a rash act of spontaneity I’ve spent this weekend updating Twitgit, my OSX Dashboard widget for Twitter.

Download Twitgit 0.7.1 for Mac OSX Dashboard (10.4.3+)

Fixes and additions in Twitgit 0.7

New scrolling status view.
The ‘Refreshing Twitterings’ text is gone, with network activity now indicated by the Twitter ‘t’ glowing gold.
The widget is 100px shorter, and no [...]

I’ve been working for a week or so now on learning to build Dashboard widgets for Mac OSX. I’ve got one for the rather incredible Last.FM in the works, but since it’s quite complex I took time out for something simpler.

Announcing Twitgit! A Dashboard widget for everyone’s favourite Web 2.0 time-waster, Twitter.