ShowOff Widget

Version 1.25, released 2007-02-20

A small widget to display your uptime and keep track of the record uptime. Inspired by my screensaver ShowOff. This is my first attempt at creating widgets. Suggestions for improvements or entirely new widgets are more than welcome.

At this time, ShowOff Widget displays current uptime, record uptime (since installation), load (average cpu usage over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes) and swap usage (displayed as used/total). See wikipedia articles on load and swap for more information.

Mac OS X v.10.4 Tiger is required. If you're using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you're using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive and doubleclick on it to install.

ShowOff Widget works on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.

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Version History

1.25

• Paucal form in the Polish localization by Cezary Okupski
• Changed border to black
• Fixed incorrect version on back
• Version History

1.24

• Polish localization by Cezary Okupski
• Migrated to Apple Dashcode for easier future development
• Changed display of swap usage from free/total to used/total

1.23

• Finnish and Japanese localization by Juho Viitasalo
• Display of swap usage (free/total swapfile size)

1.22

• Even smaller footprint
• Reverted back to a black look
• Saves the uptime every two minutes when hidden. Thanks to tamaracks for the suggestion

1.21

• Swedish localization by Fredrik Olsson

• Fixed a bug where uptime would not be displayed at all if hours were missing like this example output from uptime:

  18:44 up 21 mins, 8 users, load ...

  Thanks to Juho Viitasalo for pointing this out

1.2

• Load averages added to output courtesy of Oliver Sprenger
• A new look with smaller footprint
• Localized for English, Deutch, French (by Oliver Sprenger) and Danish

1.1 - not released

• Code cleanup

1.0

• First public version