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 »
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 »