{"id":714,"date":"2007-06-07T10:06:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T18:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/07\/awesome-check-delivery-status-widget\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T10:08:31","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T18:08:31","slug":"awesome-check-delivery-status-widget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/07\/awesome-check-delivery-status-widget\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Check Delivery Status Widget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developers who write apps for the Mac OSX Platform never seizes to amaze me with their innovative approaches to how things ought to work&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/mikepiontek.com\/software\/mac\/delivery-status.html\" target=\"_blank\">Delivery Status<\/a> Widget is one of those apps that&#8217;s just way cool. This is something I&#8217;d never expect seeing having written on the Windows camp (the snobbish Apple side of me speaking)&#8230; On Windows, I used to hate having to install unnecessary applications because you just have no idea what it&#8217;s doing to your system (&#8220;fantastic&#8221; DLLs, &#8220;awesome&#8221; registry keys&#8230; etc). Sometimes uninstallers even screw up the system&#8230; But of course, that was back in 2004, how much has changed&#8230; Now Windows is more stable than EVER before&#8230; (yeah, right).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/deliverystatus_widget.jpg\" width=\"422\" height=\"180\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Delivery Status Widget\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of widgets, it seems like Vista has some cool stuff going on albeit being just copies of the Mac OSX Dashboard widgets in looks and functionalities. But it&#8217;s like this&#8230; what do you expect out of Redmond nowadays anyway. Chee-hoi claims that &#8220;under the hood&#8221; Vista is going to really kick ass. That may be the case if whatever Microsoft promises can be fully materialized before people just start walking away and do themselves a favor by getting a Mac&#8230;. that or before Microsoft&#8217;s bloatware and vapor ware just implodes. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know&#8230; It&#8217;s Wednesday&#8230; and my snobbish Mac side has already taken over&#8230; Bad Mac, HEEL! <\/p>\n<p>via [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers who write apps for the Mac OSX Platform never seizes to amaze me with their innovative approaches to how things ought to work&#8230; The Delivery Status Widget is one of those apps that&#8217;s just way cool. This is something I&#8217;d never expect seeing having written on the Windows camp (the snobbish Apple side of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/07\/awesome-check-delivery-status-widget\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Awesome Check Delivery Status Widget&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-mac-osx","category-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-bw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}