21 July 2005
Download Oblique 1.1
Version 1.1
Release Date: 21 July 2005
.zip Filesize: 120.257 bytes
.wdgt Filesize: 220.000 bytes
New in version 1.1:
- Completely new front- and back facia, cleaner interface.
- Less buttons: click anywhere to activate.
- Auto-Backflip feature: the widget automatically flips back to the front after a given time.
- User-selectable time for Auto-Backflip: 3, 4, 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds.
- Re-written and optimized code: faster, leaner and less bugs ;-)
- Reliable and consistent prefs, and better random number-generation algorithm.
System Requirements
Dashboard Widgets can be used on any Mac running OS 10.4 (Tiger) or higher.
Guy D2's Widgets do not consume many CPU cycles, and only take up a minimum amount of disk space.
Installation
Installation of the Oblique Widget couldn't be easier:
When you download the Widget with Safari 2 (comes standard with Tiger), the .zip file will be automatically
decompressed and installed in your (Home) ~Library/Widgets folder (after confirmation in Safari),
ready for immediate use.
Other browser users should decompress the .zip file after download (you will end up with Oblique.wdgt), which then needs to be placed in your home Library folder:
/Users/YOU/Library/Widgets/
If you want to make the Widgets available to all users on your system, place them in the root Library folder:
/Library/Widgets/
Now, activate Dashboard (F12, or via the Dock), open the Dashboard Dock by clicking on the encircled "+" icon (see illustration above), and drag the Widget Icon onto your Dashboard layer, where it will expand to its full size. Or simply click on the Widget Icon in the Dashboard Dock to have it pop up somewhere in the dashboard Layer.
You're done... Enjoy using your Oblique Widget !
Remove the Widget from the Dashboard Layer by clicking its close icon.
Delete the Widget
permanently simply by dragging the Oblique.wdgt file from within a Finder window to the Trash-can.
Or use the Widget Manager (from OS 10.4.2 onwards) to remove or delete the Widget.
In the most unlikely case that you want to get rid of the Widget completely, you might also want
to remove its preference file, which can be found here:
~/Library/Preferences/widget-com.guyd2.widget.oblique.plist
Version History
21 July 2005
Public release of Version 1.1
A mini-version of Oblique will have to wait for the next release...
19 July 2005
Finally found a solution for the infamous not-so-random bug which plagued Version 1.0 !
V1.1 nearing completion.
16 July 2005
Added the Auto-Flipback feature.
07 July 2005
Development of Version 1.1 has started.
A complete redesign of the front and back faces, and some serious re-coding and clean-up of the javascript functions.
Development is slow, due to many other activities taking up all my time (amongst them the development of another Widget, SeeSS).
01 July 2005 - 2PM GMT+1
Oblique Widget 1.0 has been downloaded over 3.000 times.
06 June 2005 - 5PM GMT+6
My Oblique Widget has been approved by Apple, and is now featured on their Widget downloads pages... (in the References section).
06 June 2005 - 3AM GMT+6
- My Oblique Widget is mentioned on Tom Boon's EnoWeb ! (Thanks Phil !)
- And another one at FilmmakerMagazine.com/blog, in context of a review of Eno's new Another Day on Earth album...
- And yet another mentioning in a Japanese diary, no less ! (Hatena Diary).
Anybody here who reads Japanese ? Google translator makes a mess of it.
Note to self: Change surname so people can spell it correctly...
02 June 2005 - 10PM GMT+6
Ideas for future versions are developing...
- Auto flip-back to front within given time.
- User-defineable colour schemes.
- Getting rid of that nasty ghostline (right side) when flippin' over.
- Minimized version with auto-update of aphorisms.
- Animated fading of the "Draw a Card" button.
02 June 2005 - 7PM GMT+6
The semi-public release is very well received. No bug reports as of yet.
Going to submit the Widget to the offical Apple Dashboard Downloads section soon...
02 June 2005 - 9AM GMT+6
First semi-public release of Oblique Widget 1.0
Legalities
Oblique Widget is Freeware. As in: "Free to use for non-commercial purposes"...
Oblique Strategies, © 1975, 1976 and 1978, Brian Eno / Peter Schmidt.
Oblique Strategies, © 1996, Brian Eno / Peter Norton and his family, Pea White (design)
Dashboard, Dashboard Widget, Tiger, OS X, Mac are Registered Trademarks by Apple, Inc.
Some copy and the actual aphorisms lifted from Gregory Taylor's The Oblique Strategies Web Site.
Oblique Widget 1.0, © 2005 Guy Drieghe D., Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Oblique Widget 1.1, © 2005 Guy Drieghe D., Antwerp, Belgium.
Mail: guy at guyd2 dot com
Some code owned by Apple, Inc.
This application may contain bugs or conduct in ways not intended to be, for which the author carries no responsibility.
However, it does not contain viruses or any other form of malicious spy- or malware.
The author is not responsible for any damages or misconduct invoked by either the usage of this application,
or the result of using it. Nor is the author responsible for any creative mishaps as a result of using Oblique.
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