Peep Attack 2.0 - Dashboard Widget
Well, as mentioned in my previous widget article 10 Worthless Widgets or Are They?, I have created one of the most worthless widgets ever: a Peep widget. The Peep widget does nothing of any significance, except change between yellow and purple. Now, I originally thought that this widget would serve no purpose...but unknowingly I stumbled upon something, "The Peep Attack".
The Peep Attack goes down like this:
1. Distract the victim of said Peep Attack, send them to the store, make them wash the car, what you will.
2. Download Peep widget onto a friend, enemy, spouse, co-worker, etc's computer.
3. Pull up about 100 Peeps on their screen.
4. Wait for them to open Dashboard, or if that takes too long, casually mention that you're interested in how the weather is going to be this weekend and if they could check it out with the weather widget.
5. Upon their reaction be all like, "Dag yo! You've been Peeped! Huzzah!"
6. Repeat on others.
The Peep widget was uploaded to DashboardWidgets.com on October 1st 2005 at 8:38 AM, at the moment it already has 35 downloads, absolutely amazing. If Peep Attacks catch on that total could sky rocket, and my point will be made. Useless widgets get downloaded more often than the other widgets we make that actually do something.
K. Panda
UPDATE: The Peep Attack Widget is now at 2.0 with improved graphics and 6 more Peeps to flip between. The Peep now flips over to reveal Green, Red, Pink, Orange, Blue, and a mystery Peep. Believe it or not the thing is made it into Apple's top 50, at number 44.
