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Name: EBSG Countdown
Working Version: 2.0
Short Description: An update of the base widget with more repeat options
Release Date: September 20, 2009
System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.3 or higher (10.5 or higher for iCal integration)
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Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger or higher 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 it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it.
Features:
  • Same as version 1.5
  • More internal images
  • The reload button works to reload web templates
  • Repeat until a specified date has passed
  • Repeat with new advanced settings
  • More built in templates using the new repeat settings
Back (Countdown) Advanced Repeat Settings
Back of the Widget (Countdown)
Back (Appearance) Repeat Until Settings
Back of the Widget (Countdown)

Name: EBSG Countdown
Working Version: 1.5
Short Description: An update of the base widget with limited iCal integration
Release Date: August 23, 2009
System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.3 or higher (10.5 or higher for iCal integration)
Download No longer available use version 2.0 instead
Features:
  • Same as version 1.3
  • In Mac OS 10.5 the ability to choose from events from iCal occurring in the next four years
  • Open iCal like a website by using the string "open iCal" in place of a URL
  • A bug fix for a bug that existed in v1.0
  • New color scheme for the back
  • Using iCal events allows for more complex repeat options which are setup in iCal
Back (Countdown)
Back of the Widget (Countdown)
Back (Appearance)
Back of the Widget (Appearance)

Name: EBSG Countdown
Working Version: 1.3
Short Description: An update of the 1.3 widget with mainly new appearance options
Release Date: April 26, 2009
System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.3 or higher
Download No longer available use version 2.0 instead
Features:
  • Same as version 1.0
  • Back side has two sections: Countdown and Appearance
  • Choose from about a dozen different color themes for the widgets front
  • Setup links attached to the images on the front of the widget
  • Customize the type of fields that are displayed on the countdown
  • Have the countdown change to HH:mm:ss format when it is under a set amount of hours when this data is more useful to know
  • Front image has a tad smaller height then version 1.0
Front
Widget's Front

Widget's Front
Back
Back of the Widget

Back of the Widget

Name: EBSG Countdown
Current Version: 1.0
Short Description: Use this widget to countdown to almost any thing you can think of.
Release Date: September 28, 2008
System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.3 or higher
Download No longer available use version 2.0 instead
Features:
  • Countdowns to a specific date and time
  • Have multiple instances of the widget each with different settings
  • Keeps track of remaining years, days, hours, minutes and seconds
  • Provides simple repeat options for recurring events like birthdays
  • Allows countdowns to dates almost 100 years in the future; perfect for retirement
  • Use templates to quickly make countdowns for common events like holidays and birthdays
  • Web templates for yearly dates provides a way to have countdown to yearly events like holidays that can not be created to repeat using the simple repeat options
  • Web templates for misc. items provides a way to have countdown to releases of popular video games, movies and other events. When a release data changes the widget can automatically update itself with the new date/time
  • Show an image on the front of the widget for the countdown on either the left side, right side, both sides or no image at all
  • Includes a total of 30 images contained in the widget for easy use and the ability to use a picture from your file system or the internet (So you can use any image that you have access to on front of the widget)
  • Will check for newer versions of the widget when you are connected to the internet and go to the back page
Why have widgets for specific events like Christmas or other common events when a single widget like this one can do the same job as many.
Front
Widget's Front
Back
Back of the Widget
Using an Image on Your Hard Drive
Using Local Image

Just type in the full file path to the image such as the one shown for the image to be displayed. When you have typed in a valid path the back image will be updated automatically so you can tell if it is the image you want or if you got the path correct. The images used are 75x75 pixels so any image selected will be scaled to this size.
Using an Image From the Web
Using Web Image

Just type in the full web address to the image such as the one shown for the image to be displayed. When you have typed in a valid path the back image will be updated automatically so you can tell if it is the image you want or if you got the address correct. The images used are 75x75 pixels so any image selected will be scaled to this size.


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