Get the latest US Presidential election news - right on your Dashboard. Powered by Truveo - the 2008 Presidential Election gathers the latest news videos over the past two weeks - and lets you select what you want to see! You can also read more about the development of the widget on my AOL Developers Network blog!

The Open Xdrive Usage meter let’s you view the usage of your Open Xdrive account on the Dashboard. Open Xdrive is a free service from AOL that provide 5GB on storage online for FREE!

You can read the article that discusses the development of the Open Xdrive Usage meter at: hhttp://dev.aol.com/blog/johnfronck/UpdatedOpenXDriveWidget

AOL’s Truveo is a one-stop site for searching and browsing the millions of videos available on the Internet. Truveo Video Search provides a rich searching mechanism, and an associated API that give users the ability to find the content they need. In addition, Truveo users can create a list of their favorite videos, and if they choose to make the favorites list public, other users can search it by using the user: search modifier. The TruveoCast widget provides a mechanism to instantly browse the video favorites of a specified user.

You can read the article that discusses the development of TruveoCast at:  http://dev.aol.com/article/2007/truveocast

Using a complicated algorithm, AIM Fight! crawls through the depths of the Internet to answer the all-important question that plagues us all: How popular am I right this second? The AIM Fight! widget allows you to have battles right from your Mac OS X Dashboard. You can have head-to-head battles or just check your current ranking. The widget keeps track of your fight results, and your constantly changing rank, allowing you graph these results. You can also configure the AIM Fight! widget to automatically check your ranking on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.Read about the development of AIM Fight! at http://dev.aol.com/article/2007/aimfight_osx_dashboard_widget  

Elephant’s Pajamas is a Mac OS X Dashboard Widget, powered by Truveo, which provides access to funny joke videos. Truveo provides a one-stop destination for searching the video resources available all over the Internet, including sources such as AOL Music, AOL Video, YouTube, CNN, NBC, Fox News, and much more. Elephant’s Pajamas utilizes the AJAX API provided by Truveo to search through all the funny joke videos available from the resources aggregated by Truveo, and then randomly selects one video, which the user can view in their web browser.

You can read about the development of Elephant’s Pajamas on the AOL Developer Network web site.