About the NZMac.com widget

The NZMac.com widget allows users to display either the 10 latest postings from the NZMac.com Forum or the 10 most recent news stories from the NZMac.com website. Users can also set how often the widget checks for new items, every 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes. The widget also features an inbuilt update check and will inform you when a newer version of the widget had been released.

The widget can be downloaded from the main page of this site.

License

The NZMac.com widget is released by under the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0" license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Main developers of the NZMac.com widget

• Philip Roy - Initial code - http://www.bluengrey.com
• Craig Stanton - Advanced Programming - http://craig.stanton.net.nz/
• Cian Walsh - Widget graphics - http://www.afterglow.ie/

License

The NZMac.com widget is released by under the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0" license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

You are free:

• to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
• to make derivative works

Under the following conditions:

• Attribution. You must give the original authors credit.
• Non-commercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.

Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.

Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.

Thanks goes to...

• Portions Copyright 2005, Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.
• Inspiration from Julius Vu (JaRSS widget) and Wishingline.com (Xcode template)
• Script to parse RSS XML data files and script to import XML data files and make them available to JavaScript written by Mark Wilton-Jones (http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/jslibs/termsOfUse.html for terms of use)
• Jon Brown - Version checker (http://www.widgetshow.com/?page_id=74)

Version history

Version 1.3.x

• NZiPhone.com news feed added
• NZiPhone.com forum feed added
• NZiPhone.com reviews feed added
• Multiple widget issue fixed
• NZMac.com Twitter feed added
• NZiPhone.com Twitter feed added

Version 1.2.x

• Moved project into Dashcode for bug fixing
• Restructured files into more standard naming convention
• Tidied up of code to solve Leopard issue
• New 5 minute refresh option
• Feed display length fixed

Version 1.1.x

• Feed limit fixed
• Credits link altered
• Community blog feed added
• Feeds updated as Feedburner now provides domain-associated feeds (ie, nzmac.com and not feedburner.com)
• 'Done' button fixed

Version 1.1

• Close 'X' moved slightly. Purely cosmetic
• Version checking via Jon Brown's script
• Adjusted credits on back with link to detailed credits on NZMac.com
• News and Forum feeds diverted through feedburner to resolve issues
• Forum feed shows 10 most recent posts (even if in same thread). Sorry there is no fix for this at the moment
• Events feed removed
• Tidied code (missing tags) and adjusted layout CSS

Version 1.0

• Long news items are now truncated to resolve display issues (they end in “...” if they are too long and would have run over one line)
• Widget height has been reduced slightly
• Creative Commons License has been added into source files and widget released using CCL

Version 0.7

• New amazing widget design by Cian Walsh (Thank you!!)
• Overhaul of most of the code by Craig Stanton (Thank you!!), with some (ie, little) help by Philip Roy

Version 0.2

• First public release based on JaRSS widget and Xcode template
• "Call for Help" sent out with release for NZMac.com users to contribute