The MacRumors Forum Spy Widget (finally)

[decksnap]

Thought I'd start a new thread now that it's working. Thanks for the help Lixivial.

Download the Forum Spy widget here:

Forum Spy

BTW, if the mods have any issues with the use of the javascript let me know and I'll take it down. I figured it wasn't hurting anybody.

 

[Shadow]

Excellent...*adds to dashboard*! How much RAM does it use (Activity Moniter is refusing to open after install loads of SF)?

 

[Rojo]

Thought I'd start a new thread now that it's working. Thanks for the help Lixivial.

Download the Forum Spy widget here:

Forum Spy

BTW, if the mods have any issues with the use of the javascript let me know and I'll take it down. I figured it wasn't hurting anybody.

Wow, thanks.
Just what I've been looking for!

 

[Danksi]

I was just trying out Forum Spy this morning, but had to close the tab. It was updating soo fast that it made my head spin!

 

[katie ta achoo]

oh no
looks like MR will be sucking more of my time, even if I don't have any browser windows open!!

FANTASTIC!

 

[MacNut]

very good but one thing, is there a way to fix the time, its 4 hours ahead.

and Im wondering if the white text on black might cause some eye strain.

 

[decksnap]

very good but one thing, is there a way to fix the time, its 4 hours ahead.

Now that you mention it... hmmm. I hadn't noticed because the time I see on Macrumors posts has always been four hours ahead. I'll look into it.

 

[MacNut]

I think blue text would be more visible then the grey.

 

[kretzy]

Wow, that's excellent. Nice work!

 

[Warbrain]

oh no
looks like MR will be sucking more of my time, even if I don't have any browser windows open!!

FANTASTIC!

Exactly. That damn forum spy has made it near impossible to finish anything now...

 

[Benjamindaines]

Can we get rid of these?

 

[MRU]

class thanks

 

[decksnap]

Can we get rid of these?

I would if I knew how. Honestly, it was a struggle to manipulate to begin with.

Feel free to dig around in the package contents. I'd love to figure that out.

 

[AvSRoCkCO1067]

Won't Leopard make these kinds of things cake to make? Is that what that Dashboard button in Safari will do?

 

[decksnap]

Won't Leopard make these kinds of things cake to make? Is that what that Dashboard button in Safari will do?

Hopefully, but I'm not sure about that. I haven't used Leopard so I don't know, but I think a lot of things would be hard to pull off with that feature. Can you 'clip' an area that you need/want to scroll, like the Forum Spy? I think it will be good for some things, but not all.

 

[Lollypop]

well there goes my life!

Really cool widget! I personally like the colors, might be better with a bit more contrast. Nice work decksnap!

 

[72930]

NOOO..not sure about others, but mine worked with Firefox 1.5, but now it doesn't with firefox 2

 

[dpaanlka]

Wow so cool!

 

[janitorC7]

yay! I have been waiting for this to finish

I said it once and I will say it again.......

ARN!!!!, put this thing as a link on MR and come on

DEMI-GOD STATUS
He deserves it

 

[tvguru]

Thanks! I've had each one...I think. I love it.

 

[tribal]

can someone advise me what is the software for?what purpose of the software?

 

[Willis]

Can we get rid of these?

*points* theres meeeeee

On a more serious note... nice widget

 

[WildCowboy]

can someone advise me what is the software for?what purpose of the software?

It's a Dashboard widget version of Forum Spy, a way to keep track of posts being made here in the MacRumors forums in realtime.

 

[Unorthodox]

I wish there was a "New Post" widget that only updated when you activated the dashboard (F12)

 

[MacNut]

Ok I had to shut off the Forum Spy Widget after having a slow down and pinpointing it to the forum widget sucking 120MB of memory and slowing my system to a crawl. Im not sure if this can be fixed but does it need to be pulling that much memory.