Posted September 10th, 2006
by Mike Piontek /
Mac OS X
There are a lot of great text editors out there for OS X, but I’d have to say TextWrangler is the best out of the few that are totally free. Personally I can’t live without its big brother BBEdit, but with the $125 entry fee, I can understand why a lot of people are more than happy to stick with TextWrangler. It is missing a lot of features that BBEdit has, but the good news is you can expand it quite a bit using AppleScript. Here’s a quick and easy example, for previewing the current HTML page… Read more »
Posted September 07th, 2006
by Mike Piontek /
Mac OS X
I mentioned the other day that I was working on a new Order Status widget for Amazon. Well, it occurred to me that it shared most of the same code with my Apple Order Status widget, and hey, why clutter up the widget bar when I can have one multi-purpose widget? It’s every bit as easy to use, and you can still keep multiple widgets open to track different orders. This also paves the way for adding more stores in the future, if the need (or want) arises.
Here’s what’s new:
Select… Read more »
Posted August 30th, 2006
by Mike Piontek /
Mac OS X
I’ve been wanting to make this widget for a while, and I finally decided to experiment a bit this morning. It was actually really easy to adapt my Apple Order Status widget for Amazon… Only took an hour or two. It’s very close to being finished already, but I’ll have to wait until I place another Amazon order to give it the final test and wrap it up. (I had to fake the screenshot above, that order was actually from December!) Read more »
Posted August 30th, 2006
by Mike Piontek /
Mac OS X
Despite my fears it seems that Apple Order Status isn’t quite dead yet after all. I’m just putting the finishing touches on a new version that will be available in a day or two. Of course this version will fix the “couldn’t connect” errors everyone has been getting. Even better, if it’s unable to connect in the future, it will now check my site to see if a new version of the widget is available!
Update: The new version is now available! Read more »
Posted August 24th, 2006
by Mike Piontek /
Mac OS X
If you’re one of the many people wondering why my Apple Order Status widget is no longer working, things are not looking so good. Apple made a change to their store recently that broke the widget. Normally it’s a pretty quick fix, but this time I’m unable to get it working again. It’s awfully strange, because what’s happening really doesn’t make sense.
I’ve verified that I’m sending all the correct form fields. If I access the same URL in a browser I can see all the form fields filled in… Read more »
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