the personal weblog of paul burd, multimedia designer

iPhone Countdown Widget

1.11.2007 – 10:14 am | by paul

iPhone Countdown Widget

Two things happened yesterday… First, I wrote a post about Dashcode, Apple’s widget making app. Second, I saw this post over at TUAW about a cool DIY cut and fold paper iPhone template. The guys who made the template also had a countdown (in the form of an iPhone) on their site.

I thought to myself… Dashcode has a built in template for countdowns, and an iPhone countdown would be better as a widget, rather than a webpage. So, I broke out Dashcode and whipped one up.

Now, we don’t have a firm ship date for the iPhone. Steve just said ‘June’, so my widget counts down to June 1st. I’ll update it to v2 when we get a firm release date.

Let me know what you think.

UPDATE (4.10.07): Rumor has it that the iPhone will be available on June 11th. I’ve updated the widget to countdown to that date.

Download iPhone Countdown (requires OS X 10.4.3+)

5 Responses to “iPhone Countdown Widget”

  1. Matt Says:

    Although there is already a similar widget posted online and dugg, have you thought about submitting this to the Mac OS X Downloads area, Version Tracker, or something like that to get a little bit more feedback on it?

    Overall, very nicely done.

  2. paul Says:

    Thanks, glad you like it.

    This was actually just a fun little exercise. I don’t think I’ll submit it anywhere else. I saw the one on digg, and I’ve seen two others on dashboardwidgets.com. I guess a few people had this idea ;)

  3. Mac Fanatic » iPhone Countdown Widget Says:

    [...] Download iPhone Countdown Widget Found via | One Digital Life [...]

  4. one digital life » Blog Archive » iPhone Countdown Widget v2 Says:

    [...] Rumor has it that the iPhone will be available on June 11th. I’ve updated my iPhone Countdown widget to reflect that date. I’ll update it again if another date comes up. [...]

  5. Mike Says:

    Update to countdown to June 9, 2008 - WWDC 2008

Leave a Reply