Widget Watch: Refurb Store

I'm a recent "switcher" and for a long time I have been monitoring the refurb of the Apple France Store, trying to grab one of those new macbooks. But these bargains are rare and difficult to catch. That's the reason why I built a new free-to-use tool to get notified when new products arrive on the refurb of various Apple Store (currently: US, UK, France, Belgium, Swiss, new stores will be added)...

This tool located at http://debin.net/apple_refurb/ builds news feeds (RSS) on demand based on what the user wants to monitor : which store (US, UK, France, Belgium, Swiss), what kind of product (Mac, iPod, Macbook, iPhone...) and the kind of feed : only new products currently available, all history of new products (even those not available any more), all history (all products (dis)apparition) - very useful to learn when is the right time to buy a specific product before it disappears.

These feeds are updated every five to ten minutes.

I got a refurb PowerBook G3 (Pismo) back when those were around. It
was always a little flakey... prone to freezing or crashing (which a
great deal of troubleshooting was unable to fully resolve), and the
DVD-ROM died only a few months after the warranty expired.I know that
was a long time ago, but every time I reconsider buying refurbished,
those memories haunt me.

Brent, that's the one I was using ages ago. Thanks for linking it agagin!

Have anything you want to share with us, Widgetinfo? (hint, hint -- ka-ching $$$)?

------ NEW VERSION ------

There are a new version of this widget (1.5).
Now that include a scrollbar ,resize and new countries:
- CANADA
- U.S
- FRANCE

@11: I didn't know; indeed how could I have known given that there's nothing on the page about it? If you're tut-tutting anyone it should be the dev. I agree he should be upfront about it, but to some degree what difference does it make? You get a piece of software that's useful to you, and the dev gets a kickback. I agree they should have told us, but as long as it doesn't cost the user anything does it really matter that much?

Shame on you, TUAW, for promoting an AFFILIATE without full disclosure.

Not cool.

Thanks for the link Brent!

Ill use the smaller one brent said on my macbook and on my 24'' iMac ill use the really fancy looking one!!! Everyone wins!

I much prefer this one, which does the same thing:

http://www.macintoshos.com/widget.html

Please note the widget developer is collecting affiliate commissions on this.

It'd be nice if he/she would tell us this up front.