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iPhone application developer Intelliborn has just released a new killer application for the iPhone called the IntelliScreen. This new application compiles weather, e-mail, SMS message, RSS feeds, news, sports and wheather widgets and displays them to your iPhone’s “Slide to Unlock Screen.”

The application allows for the display of four widgets at the same time and you can easily switch reading from one widget to another in a jiffy. 

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Facebook chat is a little awkward… it’s stuck in the browser, and even if popped out, it still runs in Safari. By closing the window, or moving to a new tab, you close your chat. Fortunately, Mac OS X makes it easy to run Facebook Chat separately from Safari. Here are the two easiest ways:

Web Clip in Dashboard
Simply navigate to Facebook, use the chat menu to pop out the chat in a new window, and choose “File > Open in Dashboard.” Then, arrange it as you please. I chose to make only my buddy list visible, so I can easily check who is online before starting to chat. When I wanted to chat, I either went to Facebook, or resized the widget to show the chat.

Fluid.app
This method is the better one for someone who wants to do heavier-duty chatting. First, download the free and awesome Fluid.app at http://fluidapp.com.  Then, launch Fluid, and type the following address into the field:

http://facebook.com/presence/popout.php

Give it a name like “Facebook Chat,” and save it. There you go! You now have a native Facebook Chat application.

The mEgg Hunt, “brings seasonal fun” where Mac users will surf a Mac developer’s site and try to find an egg. Once they find an egg they’ll receive a code towards 20% off the purchase of the software. The Easter mEgg Hunt just revealed the list of participants, so once you see them, get hunting! (Then reading Apple news)

Read the full list after the jump!

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When the Apple Store is down, the entire blogosphere goes crazy about it assuming Apple will release a new product. Pingdom provides a service that enables to track update of a site and the Apple Store is one site they are tracking. On this handing web widget, you are able to embed this into your website and show your visitors, or yourself the current status of the US Apple Store. To use embed the widget, simply copy and paste the code from Pingdom’s site onto your blog.

Hopefully Pingdom’s system of checking the US Apple Store every minute and displaying the status on the site will help you save some time. For more information about embedding this web widget, head over to the Pingdom blog.

Possibly in an effort to compete with some social networking ideas Apple has just announced the My iTunes Widget. There are 3 widgets styles that you have to choose from with the option to add them to your website, blog or social networking profile. The widgets will be a nice way to share your recent purchases, music favorites or reviews with others, but will most likely also have an impact on sales for Apple. I am sure there will be plenty of times you will see a recent purchase from someone and decide that you just need that album or song. Either way its a nice way to share your musical tastes with others.

To enable your My iTunes widgets and get the HTML code, just login to your iTunes profile in the iTunes Store and click “Manage My iTunes” to get started. Then just choose the widget you want and you will be given the option for a small, medium or large widget as well as a few color options to choose from. Below is an example of the recent purchase widget, just keep in mind that I also purchase music for my daughter, so the Hannah Montanta tracks are not for me.

Read [TUAW.com]

For those of you who have an iPhone that isn’t cardboard or dispenses mints, you have probably experimented with the many iPhone applications available for use. If you aren’t satisfied with the many applications available, Plusmo has more than 20,000 widgets that you can use on your iPhone. Ever stop and think “Gee, wouldn’t it be great if I could have a Peanuts comic strip in an easy to read widget that updates each and everyday? Maybe you didn’t have that exact though, but the point is now you can.

The Plusmo service supports not only the iPhone but also most other Java-enabled phones such as the Blackberry. You can create and customize your own widgets from sources like XML and RSS, so if you haven’t found the widget you are looking for after searching all 20,000 of them, you can just create your own. 

This service, to me, sounds sort of like an online equivalent of the Dashboard. All widgets are free and are already up and online for you to enjoy.

On another note, The Duggars just had their 17th child. Yes, 17. I think this family could use an iPhone.

Via [iPodNN] + [Neatorama]

I am sure by now you are all tired of iPhone news, but I have got a bit more for you. In the last few days, a website called Widgety has popped up, claiming the title of “The first iPhone widget list.” At the moment, the site hasn’t launched, and isn’t due to launch until—you guessed it—June 29th. The website has pages for downloading widgets and how to create your own, which is a little suspicious to me, as all iPhone applications will have to be displayed in Safari. Additionally, there is also a page for sharing your widgets, and three of the four iPhone commercials have been embedded for your enjoyment.

It seems like this might not be a “for-real” website, unless the creators know something that the rest of the world doesn’t. Come June 29th, this site may end up just listing all of the available web-applications for the iPhone, though that still doesn’t explain the download page. But—there’s always a “but"—if somehow Google Gears ends up being ported to the iPhone, then maybe offline-widgets are still feasible.

At Macworld 2007, when Steve Jobs first let us see the holy grail, iPhone, he stated that the operating system it is running is Mac OS X. Most people took this to mean that it was a stripped down version of OS X, or Mac OS “Mobile.” At the All Things Digital Conference recently, we got word right from the horse’s mouth that the iPhone is running “real” OS X, not just a slimmed or stripped down version.

The speculation for what this could mean was last seen heading out of the atmosphere after it rocketed into the sky. The fact that the iPhone runs “real” OS X, makes the possibilities for development almost endless. It would mean that all widgets that are currently in your Dashboard, could theoretically also run on the iPhone. More traditionally desktop Mac-apps, could be ported easily to work flawless with the iPhone’s touch screen interface. Lets just hope that Apple will soon find a way to let third party developers “safely” release software for the iPhone.

via [TUAW]