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iWorkout is now iRun⁺ for some really stupid reasons. At any rate, it's also got a new home:

since we're taking this kinda seriously now. Release tracking, forums, the whole works.

Keep an eye out for new updates & features!

Version 0.4a of the iWorkout Dashboard Widget idget is now available for download. No additional modules or libraries are required. It should install out of the box. I've changed the naming scheme of the widget a bit, so please delete any existing widget you have installed before using this one.

This is still an alpha version since all it does is show your last workout and doesn't format some of the data as pretty as I'd like it to be. If you have any votes for how you'd like to interact with this widget and what you want to be able to do with the data, please leave feedback to this post since I'm more likely to work on features people actually want as opposed to my list of things I'd like it to do.

Major thanks to KT & Jeff for their testing and coding input. Once I get the Google Code project repository setup, you'll be seeing credit in the code.

Thanks to the efforts of KT and jeff-phil, a new, working version of iWorkout will be forthcoming (tonight or tomorrow). I have something that will work now, but want to include the submitted fixes (I hacked a fix that worked, but the approach that you'll see in the comment in the previous story is a better one) and some additional functionality.

I really appreciate all those who have helped on this. Hopefully we can make this a really nice utility for everyone who wants to make the most of their iPod Sport Kit.

I definitely have to get it out before WWDC starts since I'll probably be hitting refresh on all of the unofficial Apple blog sites to see what goodies are in store for us!

Version 0.3a of the iWorkout Dashboard Widget idget is now available for download.

Even with the changes in 0.2a, there were still issues with the widget working for folks (XML::Simple was just not being found). So, I re-worked the module and library organization, cleaned up the code and am releasing this one for testing. Hopefully this will be "the one" so I can focus on adding the other features.

Reviewing the eCheck widget was a big help.

Version 0.2a of the iWorkout Dashboard Widget idget is now available for download. Due to all the problems folks were having dealing with the perl modules (and the ones I missed in the instructions), I spent some time figuring out how to encapsulate everything inside the widget itself.

I've tested this one on PPC and Intel hardware, and the PPC test was done on a machine that did not have the libraries and modules installed somewhere else.

If you have issues with this one, please drop a note in the comments feedback. If you do manage to play with it, please feel free to drop suggestions there as well.

With seven-or-so minutes left to go (at least here on the east coast), I present the iWorkout Dashboard Widget version 0.1a. Yes, this is *alpha* code and if it eats your iPod (unlikely), don't blame me.

Unfortunately, I have not had time to do a local build of perl that is a Universal Binary (UB), so I cannot build any modules as UB's (if I'm wrong about this - I got the impression from here - please post in the comment feedback so I can do this ASAP). Therefore, I opted to not include any perl modules local to the widget. That means you'll have to do some work if you want to use this widget. The final version will not require this work, so if you're not keen on opening up a Terminal (or iTerm) window and running some commands, I suggest waiting until this thing matures a bit.