Griffin Technology has announced the radioSHARK Widget, for use with Apple's Dashboard technology. The widget allows users to conveniently control the radioSHARK USB radio with technology built right into Mac OS X Tiger.

Control tuning, volume, mute and station presets all from within the radioSHARK Widget.

Griffin also announces a new beta 2.0 version of its radioSHARK software for Mac OS X available for download, with several new features and enhancements:

• New compact, redesigned interface
• Improved scheduling
• Improved 10 band equalizer
• Expanded record/playback, tuning and appearance preferences
• Spectrum visualizer
• Selectable display color
• Dock icon displays station and record status
• AppleScript support
• Supports G3, G4 & G5 processors running 10.3 and higher

The 2.0 beta radioSHARK software, which includes the radioSHARK Dashboard Widget, can be downloaded from the Griffin site.