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Widget Watch: Delivery Status 3 now does Growl notifications
Mike Pointek has updated his rockin' Delivery Status widget with Growl notifications, making it pretty much the most feature-packed, well-designed and useful shipping widgets that has ever graced this blogger's Dashboard. In addition to now being able to notify you of changes in your package's status, Delivery Status can also run multiple instances to keep track of more than one delivery, track shipments from ten different companies and services (sixteen if you count each one of Amazon's international sites separately), refresh as often as you like and easily take you to the package's shipment details at the shipping service's site.
Delivery Status is provided as donationware from Mike Pointek's site.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Thomas GvL said 10:04PM on 4-22-2007
Delivery Status rocks. I would say it's probably the best non-Apple widget.
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Nate Perkins said 1:09AM on 4-23-2007
A truly great widget, one of the most useful I've seen around both in terms of content and ease of use because of the design.
FYI, it's Piontek not Pointek
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ThunkDifferent.com said 6:21AM on 4-23-2007
This could be useful, or this could be the first sign of a barrage of ads and pop-ups in widget form.
W: http://ThunkDifferent.com
T: http://www.blogging4business.info/blog/robertandrews?bid=2641
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Stuart said 6:30AM on 4-23-2007
I must be one of the few who just deleted growl off my Mac, am I the only one who trust's when you do something it'll just get done, and I don't need some message popping up to tell me so? Is this some PC user hang up, you need a message to tell you?
I had used it for iTunes track information, but deciced to just use Quicksilver's built in one, the rest, like 'hey you've just uploaded a file in transmit and wow it totally worked, are you surprised'? (even though you can disbable it) just became annoying.
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Dave Chartier said 10:28AM on 4-23-2007
#4: I'm a little confused by your comment. In the first paragraph you're saying you don't quite understand Growl's purpose of notifying us when things happen, but then in the second you say you simply use a different app for the same purpose of notifying you when iTunes changes songs...
When I'm working on my computer, I certainly know when I decide to to do something, but Growl isn't about that. It lets you know about *other* things that happen, in the background, *instead of* what you're immediately doing. I like the fact that Delivery Status will check on my package status for me and pop up a Growl alert when something's changed; I don't need to break my workflow, grab the mouse, click the Dashboard widget and hit cmd-r to refresh. I like the fact that I can be working in Aperture or reading a long article on the web, with my chat app hidden, and Growl will pop up an alert that a specific friend or colleague came online in iChat or Adium. Again, I don't need to pop over to either of those apps to look through my long buddy list; Growl's notifications do that work for me without making me break my workflow.
Does that make more sense?
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Stuart said 10:52AM on 4-23-2007
I used Growl for the iTunes thing until I realised QuickSilver did the same thing, which is all I was interested in. Growl became annoying as many applications kept popping up with it until I disabled them. To me it breaks the work flow having messages come up, I don't care if someone comes online, if I'm interested when I hear a noise, I'll look. I don't need or require messages for most things, like when a mail arrives or anything of that nature hence I removed it. It's a classic case of each to their own.
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Stuart said 10:54AM on 4-23-2007
p.s. I also disabled Dashboard too. I'm awful : )
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Dave Chartier said 11:08AM on 4-23-2007
[joking]
You disabled Dashboard? *And* you don't like a particular app and workflow that I love to use? And you call yourself a Mac user! I bet you're running a hacked copy of OS X 10.4.5 on an eMachine with 256MB of RAM!
[/joking]
True; to each their own. I simply figured I would take a stab at answering the questions from your first comment, *especially* since you dished out the 'PC holdover' card. Them's fightin' words. :)
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Stuart said 11:13AM on 4-23-2007
*laughs* Well, I thought someone might bite : ) I've never owned a PC though, started using Macs in 87 and was smitten. Dashboard on my PB 12" just seems to drag, I'd probably using it if I had a nice new intel one. Saying that, I prefered the old desk accesories (though there are some, not so great work arounds to make dashboard widgets work like that).
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William Jessup said 11:25AM on 4-23-2007
I just want to know where you ordered CS 3 Web. I ordered the upgrade from Amazon and have received two e-mails saying that the shipment will be delayed until May 7th.
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Donald Burr said 11:33AM on 4-23-2007
Wow, I never knew about this widget. Up till now I've been using Package Tracker from Monkey Business Labs, but they haven't updated it in AGES and the UPS functionality has been broken for quite some time now. Also it never did USPS (Postal Service/Express Mail/etc.) which is something I do use a lot. Looks like this Delivery Status widget fits the bill perfectly. Thanks TUAW for the tip!
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Ahmad said 11:38AM on 4-23-2007
woot! IGN FTW!
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Dave Chartier said 12:38PM on 4-23-2007
#10: I ordered directly from Adobe on the 13th. I've been getting a lot of conflicting reports on when it's supposed to actually ship as well. IMHO, Adobe's done a horrible job of handling this entire release.
Also, for the record, my order was an EDU copy of the full version.
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