Isaac's cool blogDasher is a simple Dashboard replacement. It should now work with both WP 2-ish and 1.5-ish. Dasher 0.2 will display two types of content – PHP files (blocks) and RSS feeds – in place of the former Dashboard. See the included blocks for some examples.
Download dasher.zip.
Dasher is a plugin that replaces the WordPress Dashboard with something more suitable for a multi-user blog with users who aren’t interested in WordPress development news. It includes an example welcome message in a separate file for easy modification.
Dasher is pretty simple (crude?). If you’re looking for something more feature-ful you probably want X-Dashboard.
Download dasher.zip.