Informer Widget, Testing Informer's Betas Options

[andyduke]

Informer 2.8.3 - Release



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This Widget monitors your system resources (CPU usage, disk usage, memory usage, swap usage) and Internet resources (RSS feeds and Gmail Inbox), and displays it on your desktop.

You can set up multiple sensors (useful for multiple Gmail accounts or RSS feeds) too!

Features:

• Fully customizable
• 31 sensors available: Time, Disk Meter, CPU Meter and Graph, Memory Meter, Swap Meter, WiFi Signal, Battery Life, Recycle Bin/Trash, System Uptime, RSS Feeds, IMAP4/POP3 Mail Checker, Yahoo!, Gmail checker and Gmail for Domains checker, Text sensor, Image sensor, Shortcut to application sensor, Internet Radio, Power control, WiFi meter, TurboFolder, TurboFolder: StartMenu/Applications, Disk, Network Graph, Eject USB, Memory Graph, Swap Graph, SpeedFan Meter (for Windows only).
• Asynchronous web access
• Drag-n-drop support
• Popup ballons
• Customizable background
• Notifications

Download final version: http://www.extensiblesoft.com/informer/Informer.widget
Download beta-version: http://www.extensiblesoft.com/informer/Informer_beta.widget

Version 2.8.3:

• Yahoo Mail Checker "1.#QNAN" fix.

Version 2.8.2:

• Date sensor: english date format fixed.
• TurboFolder: fixed launching shortcuts under Windows.

Version 2.8.1:

• Multi-monitor bug on resolution changes fixed

Version 2.8:

• Workarea cleanup fixed
• Few bugs fixed

Version 2.7.9:

• Fix: TurboFolder resizing
• Fix: Multi-monitor support
• Fix: Skin/Color preferences applying

Version 2.7.8:

• Fix: Incorrect show the value of SpeedFan Meter sensor where Unit in F
• Fix: Not opened Task Manager and the Network Center under Windows clicking on the CPU/Network sensors

Version 2.7.7:

• TurboFolder copy/move hint fixed

Version 2.7.6:

• Mail and RSS sensors autoupdate fixed

Version 2.7.5:

• Multi-monitors now works under Windows and MacOS X
• YWE 4.5 compatibility changes

Version 2.7.4:

• Change workarea size option, that would Informer was always seen as Taskbar (Windows only)
• Font style for sensors
• Font style for popups
• Disable/Enable popups menu item (like Lock)

Version 2.7.3:

• Import/Export bug fix
• TurboFolder: Start Menu - Windows Vista compatibility

Version 2.7:

• Potential vulnerability workaround
• NewsStand rss reader widget integration
• Fixed positioning at the top with the shadow skin

Version 2.6:

• Gmail for Domains mail checker

Version 2.5:

• Gmail sensor bug fix
• POP3 mail checker bug fix
• TurboFolder: Start Menu - fix "Open folder" in context menu
• Fixed 'TurboFolder: Start Menu' sensor compatibility with localized versions of Windows.
• Yahoo! Widgets 4 compatibility improved
• Uptime and other text sensors positioning bug fixed
• Graph sensors optimized (thanks to Torsten Herz)
• Other bugs fixed
• Uptime sensor text position bug fix
• Yahoo! Widgets 4.0 compatibility
• Yahoo! Mail Checker sensor small fixes
• DiskMeter sensor overlap bug fix
• Fix some MacOS X version bugs
• TurboFolder Special: show Start Menu/Applications
• Mail checker sensors bugs fix
• Preference's slider decreasing bug fix
• TurboFolder now allows browsing in folders
• Notifications
• Bug because of which Mail checker sensors were not added is corrected
• New sensor: TurboFolder, display list of folder's files and folders in popup
• RSS/Atom Feed sensor improvements, now draw new headers with different color in popup
• Mail checkers rewritten, you are not necessary any more DLL for support SSL
• Date's popup calndar rewritten, now normally display under MacOS X
• Date's popup calendar now support week starting at monday or sunday
• Fix Network Graph sensor bugs
• Many small improvements and bug fixes
• Fixed serious bug, which properties of sensors after dragging were not saved
• Popup Calendar: Speedup & fix render in MacOS X
• New sensor: Eject USB
• Fix Open Web-sites from Informer under Windows
• New sensor: Disk
• Shortcut sensor fixes
• IMAP4/POP3 Mail Checker: fix bug with & in password
• New sensor: Gmail for Domains checker
• New sensors: MemGraph & SwapGraph
• Uptime sensor bug fix
• Gmail sensor rewritten
• Freely positioning option
• Mail checker sensors rewritted, bugs fixed, speedup
• Screen resoultion changing dock's background bug fix
• Calendar popup wakeup bug fix
• Mail checker sensors: popup draw new mail headers in different color
• Speed up IMAP4/POP3 mail checker sensor
• IMAP4/POP3 mail checker bug fixed
• Mail checkers bug fixed
• Network graph sensor
• Mail checker sensors speedup!
• SpeedFan sensor speedup!
• Some fixes in Date sensor popup calendar
• SpeedFan sensor
• Fix some bugs in Calendar
• New colorizing property for all sensors
• Uptime: record max uptime
• Internal changes

Version 2.0 changes:

• Gmail checker messages count bug fixed
• Ctrl key bug fixed
• Time sensor width bug fixed
• Mail checker sensors bug fixed. IMAP4/POP3 now work under MacOS X.
  For SSL support under MacOS X - Howto: Installing OpenSSL and the SSL perl module Net::SSLeay.pm on MacOS X
• Bring Informer to front by hotkey option
• Disk Meter sensor: show occupied/free space in bytes
• Change object-inheritance technology
• Bug fixes
• New sensor type: DualGraph. Example: CPU Graph (Dual)
• New sensor: CPU Graph, show CPU usage history
• Fix crash on Date sensor
• DiskMeter/CPUMeter/MemMeter/SwapMeter: Colorize option
• New behavior of RSS Feed & Mail Checkers during new data coming
• Shortcut sensor: add 'parameters' option
• New sensor: Power
• More useful 'New sensor' dialog with grouping and descriptions
• Add "Use classic 'New sensor' dialog" option
• DiskMeter: show occupied/free space option
• Dock shadow option
• Popup shadow option
• RSS Sensor: open website instead of RSS Reader
• Default sensor font option
• Move to trash by drop on Recycle Bin/Trash Can sensor
• BatteryLife improvements
• Hourly chime option to the clock
• Alt/Option+Click in Locked mode
• Max Messages/Chars limit in Main Checkers
• Bug fixes
• German translation added
• Time sensor: show seconds option
• Improve shadows in date & time sensors
• RSS Feed: handling of alternative date format of atom feeds added
• Drag-and-drop sensors fixed
• Skins (thanks to Cris aka poly)
• Internet Radio sensor by Fabrice Deshayes aka Xtream
• Popup calendar in Date sensor
• Shortcut sensor bug fixes
• Yahoo! Mail Checker
• Date sensor (thanks to Matthew R. Baerbock for code)
• Shortcut sensor improvements
• Applications, Links, and URLs drag-n-drop support
• Batery sensor bug fix
• Trash sensor bug fix
• Bug fixes

Version 1.2 changes:

• Improve error handling
• Replace 'checking...' to small animation for RSS & Mail Checkers
• Add lines & chars limit to RSS popup hint (thanx Fabrice Deshayes aka Xtream for idea)
• Lock mode (similar to 'Lock the Toolbars' in Windows Explorer)
• IMAP4/POP3 Mail Checker sensor with SSL support for IMAP4 & POP3 (now work with Gmail's POP3)
• Wi-Fi sensor
• BatteryLife sensor
• Shortcut sensor (launch applications & opens web-links)
• Recycle Bin/Trash sensor
• Multi-monitor support (Windows version support multi-monitors, Mac OS X version only dual)
• Fix some bugs
• Sensors Inactive State Properties
• Fixed bug when sensors disappears after restart
• Fixed Swap sensor bug under Windows
• Time Sensor click open 'Date & Time' preferences (Windows only)
• Uptime sensor

In plans for the future:

• Disk activity sensor
• Console sensor
• Notes sensor
• Widgets Updates Monitor sensor (monitor updates in WidgetsGallery for running widgets)
• International clock sensor
• Auto-hide
• Image sensor support web images
• Image sensor: Show big picture in popup
• Local/Remote IP sensor
• Weather sensor
• Sound Volume sensor
• iTunes controller sensor
• eBay sensor
• Stock Monitor sensor
• etc...

This post has been edited by andyduke: Feb 3 2009, 07:36 PM

[ghostwalker]

lov'in it great idea, the tooltips are the bomb (wished I would have thought of that). Working fine so far windows xp pro sp2.

You might also consider the recyclebin showing whats in it and a way to empty it.

[FlowingBits]

I've been using it for a few days now. Works well.

[erichter]

Any way to make this widget work on a secondary monitor? Can't quite figure out how to move it...

[andyduke]

Any way to make this widget work on a secondary monitor?  Can't quite figure out how to move it...

Multi-monitor support in development.

[erichter]

Outstanding!

[FlowingBits]

Any way to do different color text for each sensor? Say yellow for memory and red for cpu? Also maybe a way to change the font on the bar. I see how to change the text in the popup.

[Ra0]

This the most expected widget, in my concern ! Thanks a lot !
And since it is just the beginning, may I suggest any interesting features ?

- Display of current screen resolution, color depth...
- Display of current pointer position on the screen ( x, y pixels)
- Display of colour of the pixel under the pointer (in RGB format, both hexa and decimal format)

- Is there a way to display the content of Systray ?

- I'm working with Windows XP and I have a lot of mounted partitions. I mean, instead of assigning a unit letter to a partition (e.g. F:\ ), the partition is mounted in a directory (e.g. C:\data ).
So, as a consequence, the Disk Meter sensor display wrong informations :
* It doesnt include the size of mounted partitions (in my example, the sensor will only display the size of C:\, ignoring the available space in c:\data (which is a partition, remember?...)
* I cannot monitor the mounted partition either...

I dont know if it is a limitation due to Windows itself or if you can bypass this.

Long life !

[ghostwalker]

* have the time open Date and Time from control panel
* add option to image to make it a shortcut(open link or widget,application etc.,)

[andyduke]

Beta 2: Fixed bug when sensors disappears after restart.

Download: http://www.extensiblesoft.com/informer/Informer_Beta.widget

[spudley]

awesome widget...
its running very nicely here on a variety of XP(sp2) and 2k(sp4) systems

couple of thoughts:
1) text & images - add an option for those to link to a web page
2) adding drive space monitors - I'd prefer to be able to view the system volume instead of letter (i have too many server drives and its easier to see them by volume names instead of trying to recall what letter is what volume/drive)

[andyduke]

New Beta!

Multi-monitor support and etc.

[erichter]

New Beta!

Multi-monitor support and etc.

Thank you for the prompt updates... However, the multi-monitor support does not seem to work on my setup - running 1280x1024 on Monitor 1, and 1024x768 on Monitor 2. When the widget is set up on Monitor 2, it sort of sits in between the two monitors...

[andyduke]

Thank you for the prompt updates... However, the multi-monitor support does not seem to work on my setup - running 1280x1024 on Monitor 1, and 1024x768 on Monitor 2.  When the widget is set up on Monitor 2, it sort of sits in between the two monitors...

What videocard you have?

[brown705]

New Beta!

Multi-monitor support and etc.

Multi doesn't work for me. When I enable multi and select first monitor, the widget scrunches up on the bottom left (no empty space) of monitor 1, and when I select enable and the second monitor, the widget scrunches up on the bottom right of monitor 1.

I have four monitors running, the first two on an NVIDIA Quadro PCI-E Series and the second two on a Matrox Millennium G450 PCI.

Display 2 is on the LEFT of display 1. Display 3 is on the right of display 1, and display 4 is above display 1. Displays 1,2,3 are 1280x1024 and display 4 is 1024x768.

Michael

[ghostwalker]

Ive noticed a bug with the Gmail sensor. I have 3 accounts displayed and when it first loads all is well, when you right click on each and click check mail they are fine. But if left alone after awhile they will all display the last account checked you will then have to right click and have them check again. Hope that all makes since.

[andyduke]

Rewrite multi-monitors from scartch!

Now real support multi-monitors under Windows. Please test it.

Download: http://www.extensiblesoft.com/informer/Informer_Beta.widget

Mac OS X Developers, please help me, how to discover multi-monitors dimensions under Mac?

[jrcairo]

Hope you don't mind if I make a "humble" suggestion; A multi RSS reader, could be like the MultiNews Reader, just one icon, drop down, click on the title and go!, it would be too much for me to handle! too nice!!! Anyways excellent widget, you are the reason I have Konfabulator on my computer today! THANKS!!!!

[Scoops]

Beta 4 doesn't seem to recognize that I have two monitors. Sadly, I overwrote Beta 3 before testing it on my setup.

IBM ThinkPad R32
ATi Mobility Radeon 16MB - driver version 6.14.10.6372 (latest available, 2+ years old)
Built-in LCD and CyberVision C92 CRT monitors (1024x768x32)
Windows XP SP2

Possibly related to the fact that I have my monitors registered as "Default monitor" with no specific info for either of them (I usually have my desktop mirrored rather than extended, so its not usually important).

[andyduke]

Hope you don't mind if I make a "humble" suggestion; A multi RSS reader, could be like the MultiNews Reader, just one icon, drop down, click on the title and go!, it would be too much for me to handle! too nice!!! Anyways excellent widget, you are the reason I have Konfabulator on my computer today! THANKS!!!!

I have start development RSS Newspaper widget which will work together with Informer.