The woot! Widget, by B.N. and S.O., puts the daily woot! from www.woot.com on your desktop. It also tells you if the daily woot! is sold out and if a woot-off is currently happening.
Can someone formalize and load the updated version of this thing that is mentioned below. It would be great to have. There is a woot off today and the widget is still on the first item it had this AM.
June 08, 2006 ·
version 1.1 ryan dot clemens at gmail dot com
Is there a more up to date version of this widget. I notice that it hangs during a woot off.
May 04, 2006 ·
version 1.1 dydimus
I sent the modified widget to you yesterday.
May 03, 2006 ·
version 1.1 Eric
This widget is awesome. I tend to forget to check woot daily, having this widget means I never miss a good item!
That being said, I've noticed this widget takes an inordinately large amount of CPU time. I'm talking like anywhere from 10-20+% at ALL TIMES. Is there any reason it would be doing this? I've tested it on multiple computers, changed the settings of the widget, and tinkered with the widget engine itself, all to try bringing the cpu usage down some, to no avail.
Thanks… for any advice you've got, I really like the widget -- enough that even with the resources it uses it's always running anyway!More