Just wanted to do a quick post on a new site that I have been building over the last few weeks. Nikeplusedit has been created so that you can create nike+ run files from scratch to upload into Nike+ when you have missed a run with your Nano, your battery died, or whatever really. Check it out, and leave me some feedback if you find it useful/crap.

This is the next instalment in the ‘widget focus’ series. By the way, what the hell was I thinking when I thought of that name… could I get any geekier? Widget focus? wtf? What a loser I can be!

Having covered skiing and basecamp, I thought it was about time for running…

On the Nike+ website they have recently released widgets for tracking your current goals on Nike+. I’m going to assume you have at least heard of Nike+, but if not go check it out, it really is quite a cool way to move you away from a computer screen and get some exercise. Anyway, the widgets they have provided are, in classic web 2.0 style, in beta- but work fairly well. They take up a fair bit of screen space, but other than that they look nice with a funky ‘wet floor’ style reflection going on. The only problem I had with them is that you can’t have more than one running at a time - well, you can, but the second one defaults to whatever goal was showing on the first one when you reboot OS X or whatever, which is pretty pointless.

In use, you flip them over and the widget asks for your login details, as you’d expect. After logging in the widget gives you a dropdown of the goals that you currently have active. I noticed that when going to download them from the Nike+ website, they only showed up when the country selected was the US, so you may have to change your country settings temporarily.

Available for download in both Yahoo Widget Engine and OS X dashboard flavours, they are a really nice and quick way of keeping up to date on your current running goals in Nike+. Go check them out.

The Nike+ widget running under Yahoo Widget Engine on Windows…

… and running under OS X.