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AquaMac Widget: read AquaMac News in French about Mac, DSL, hardware, software & other products.
What’s New:Version 2.0: Fastest version and new design
Developer’s website: Nicopheus/Fagoshu

This is a small lightweight widget that displays the RSS feed for AppleInsider.com. It shows the top 5 entries, and displays summaries if an entry is clicked.

This is based on the Think Secret widget, by Michael Kamioner. Icon courtesy of IanTheMacFan

What’s New:Version 2.1: New icon
Developer’s website:

The Internet Traffic Report Dashboard widget shows you the latest traffic report from www.internettrafficreport.com. This free service provides a graph of the response times (higher peaks mean slower global responses), the global index (higher numbers mean faster Internet), and the current global index trend (rising, falling, or steady). Clicking the widget takes you to www.internettrafficreport.com […]

HardStat is a Dashboard widget that shows the amount of used and free space, plus total size of any volumes you have mounted.
It shows the icon for each drive and supports custom icons .
What’s New:Version 2.01:

Improved memory usage

Universal Binary support

Developer’s website: iSlayer

The Radiohead Widget shows you the latest headlines from the ateaseweb.com news section, which means you’ll be the first to know when there’s something new in the Radiohead world.
Developer’s website: Adriaan Pels

Sketcher is a Dashboard widget remake of the classic shake-to-erase toy. Yes, you actually have to shake the widget.
What’s New:Version 1.1:

Intel compatible

New supplied drawings

Minor bug fixes

Developer’s website: heagy.com

A tap-tempo device useful for estimating the bpm of music and setting the bpm meta-tags of the current track in iTunes.
What’s New:WhatÕs New in this Version
- Added support to use the space bar to tap out bpm.
- Added double-click prevention - any tap under 200ms is discarded.
Developer’s website: voodoofreqs.co.uk

Plasma Parameters brings the usefulness of the NRL Plasma Formulary to your fingertips. Simply provide basic parameters of your system and various length, frequency, and velocity properties of the system are displayed.
What’s New:Version 3.1:

Added adiabatic (polytropic) index to input parameters and included default value display.

Added Ion Inertial Length to output parameters.

Added two Solar Wind default […]

TempStat lets you view the current values of the many Temperature Sensors found in recent Macs. It supports all G5 systems, G4 Powerbooks (greater than 867), G4 iBooks and MDD G4’s.

In addition to Temperature readings, TempStat can show you the current speeds of the fans in your system.

Note: Support for Intel iMacs and various G3’s […]

Hello Newman is a Dashboard widget that displays a random quote from Seinfeld. Quotes are fed from SeinfeldQuotes.com.
What’s New:Version 1.1:

Can connect to SeinfeldQuotes.com again
Text is selectable (copy & paste friendly)
Error message fixed

Developer’s website: Jon Link