JiWire on Friday announced the released of a Dashboard widget designed to let users find Wi-Fi “hotspots” close to them, in 99 countries worldwide. The service tracks more than 63,000 hotspots around the globe. Users can find the hotspot closes to them, and obtain additional venue information like connection details, area maps and location amenities.
Dashboard is a new feature of Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger” that lets users run mini-applications called “widgets.”