My Little Black Book

Today i have finally brushed off the cobwebs of a OSX Dashboard Widget I built a while back just for myself, but after talking to a few people it turns out there are a couple of mac fanboys that were after it, so here.

I present to you my Xtra Broadband Usage Meter widget. It only works on OSX, although i have seen a thing called Kludgets that are suppose to make them work on windows as well, but i have not been able to test that.

Xtra Broadband Usage Meter widget takes your Xtra username and credentials and displays your usage information in a minimalistic candy bar / progress meter.  It also indicates the amount of time remaining until your usage allowance gets reset.

Couple of thank you’s to:
Framework by Troy Dack: tdack.com
Graphics designed by Matthew Robertson see the original
API by yours truly
Data by Telecom New Zealand

Please leave a comment or shout me a coffee if you enjoyed using this widget.

Download : Telecom NZ BB Usage Meter OSX v1.2

Change Log :

• v1.1 – 04 / 07 / 2010 – First Release
• v1.2 – 21 / 07 / 2010 – Update to work with Kludgets

Tips:

• This service is not available for people on the Big Time plans, you will see the 0 MBs Left message.
• If your credentials are incorrect you will see the screen below, please make sure you can log in to the telecom usage meter in the middle of the page.
  

Disclaimer: User data does not get stored by the Xtra Broadband Usage Meter and is only used for the purpose it is intended for retrieving your usage information. This application is not affiliated with or endorsed Telecom NZ. Use this application at your own will, i will not be held responsible for any errors or omissions.

So Webstock is fun alright, but what do i do for the other 51 weeks of the year.

I need a notebook thats always around and sometimes need to share some silly or serious thoughts.

So henceforth i dub the “My Little Black Book”

photo credit: diekatrin

Aarg, work XP machine turns out the SP2 is so old it doesn’t support WPA2… so linksys support suggested i drop my authentication to WEP… no thanks

Quick search for WPA2 on XP showed the drivers i was missing and its all better now.

Yay first real post out of the way, and one step closer to a wicked week of webstock.

I never thought i’d start a blog, but hey never say never.

So easy choice was wordpress, simply because it had the nicest templates i could find and the configuration was dead easy.

Also big deciding factor was that westhost.com my hosting provider offers it as a standard application, nice and easy….

Im sure there is a fair bit more customization to come as normal is boring.