August 30, 2006. 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,… Read more »
August 30, 2006. 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… Read more »
August 24, 2006. 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… Read more »
August 23, 2006. I’ve managed to make excellent progress with Tense Log, and I’ll be making the next beta version available on September 1st. This version will be very close to complete, with little else to do but find bugs and squash them. Above you can get a peek at the new help system. I think this is a huge improvement over the popup window I had before. This way the walkthrough is always right next… Read more »
August 5, 2006. I’ve been hacking away at Tense Log whenever I can spare a moment, giving it a major visual overhaul and a bunch of smaller tweaks in the process. Aside from being much easier on the eyes in general, it has bigger text, bigger buttons, and a centered layout that fits larger window sizes much better. I’ve also incorporated a modified version of Lightbox JS to display full size images. The… Read more »