October 25, 2006. It started out as Apple Order Status. Then I added Amazon and made it Order Status for Amazon and Apple. Now I’ve added FedEx, UPS, USPS, and DHL (US) tracking—hopefully making it the only widget you’ll need to track all your online orders. I’ve also greatly improved the accuracy of Amazon.com (US) delivery estimates, as well as Apple orders that ship via FedEx. A lot of other details have… Read more »
September 30, 2006. I frequently archive files to to post them online or email them to others. The zip files created by Mac OS X contain the resource fork and .DS_Store files that are only used Macs. This is great if you’re sending files to another Mac user because you know everything will be preserved. Unfortunately, however, a whole lot of people aren’t Mac users, and if their operating system is set to… Read more »
September 21, 2006. I’m calling it done—the finished 2.0 release of Order Status for Amazon and Apple is now online. If you’ve been following along with the beta releases, here’s what has changed in this version: Added status icons to make the widget more usable at its smallest size. A loading spinner displays while the widget is updating, a exclamation icon displays if there’s an error, and a checkmark… Read more »
September 10, 2006. 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… Read more »
September 7, 2006. 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… Read more »