iPhone Hacks · Hacks, Cracks, Mods, Homebrew, Utilities

In recent news, Erica — iPhone hacker/developer extraordinaire — has managed to successfully adapt Mac OS X widgets to the iPhone. Well, not all widgets, but some… To quote:

I’ve kinda sorta almost have Macintosh Dashboard widgets running on the iPhone. Some run okay, others not so much. The Weather, ESPN and Calendar widgets are some of the best; the Flight Tracker, Dictionary and Phone Book are among the worst.

First, from a Mac, copy /System/Library/WidgetResources to your iPhone — everything — same folder, name, contents, everything! Second, install your widgets under /var/root/Library/Widgets. You will most likely need to create this directory before hand. The best method for copying Widgets; use SCP (from terminal):

scp -r YourWidget.wdgt root@iPhone_IP_address:/var/root/Library/Widgets

There are SCP GUI alternatives, see Fugu.

Finally, copy Widgets.app to /Applications and you’re done!

I attempted to try the PSP Hacks Widget (courtesy of Leif Erikson), unfortunately it doesn’t quite behave as expected. But it’s a start! Nice work, Erica.

Download: Widgets.app v0.3

- source: tuaw.com