13 May 2004, Good news for me. Bad news for anyone looking forward to a new easyKal. I've decided to discontinue development of easyKal. I've been thinking about doing this for a long time due to many reasons. Firstly, easyKal is a lot of work, especially with the way that I have tried to implement it. And quite frankly I don't have the time to work on it. Even when I do have the time I'd rather do other things. Secondly, and this is kind of related to the work factor, whenever iCal is updated it tends to easily break some functions that I've built into easyKal and causes quite a few headaches. Thirdly...well, there's more reasons but those two are the most important.

As a bit of good news I've decided to package together all of the little bits of easyKal code and graphics and make them available for download(on the software page) so that you can hack away until your heart is content. And if you wish to use some of my graphics or code then that's fine by me too, just as long as you mention somewhere that it was originally created by me, and an email to me would be nice as well but only if you really want to.

So what happens now? Well, I still kind of have a Widget in development. I'm not working on it right now, but as soon as the holidays come around I'll try to finish it up. I think it's going to be a pretty original Widget so hopefully it'll do pretty well. Oh, and check out the iCal Events Widget.

19 March 2004, I'm slowly working on a new Widget. I say slowly because I'm busy doing Uni work again. I won't go into details about the Widget but I'll just say that it mainly works with networks, which should be easy to test now that I not only have my old Graphite iMac but also a brand new 15-inch G4 Powerbook!

11 February 2004, Yet another version of CPU Grapher is now in the software page. This will probably be the last update seeing that I can't think of any improvements to make and I'm pretty sure that I've addressed all the bugs and problems that people have had. Also, I have a few ideas for making some little widget games but I probably won't have much time to work on them seeing that I'm going back to Uni soon. Ugh.

28 January 2004, I've finished another version of CPU Grapher. Even though I pretty much rewrote all of the code this update only really adds the ability to view multiple CPU levels in line graph form.

22 January 2004, Version 1.1(pronounced "one-point-one-uuhhhhh!") of CPU Grapher is up. This update offers:

• The option to view the CPU levels as a bar graph
• 'Nice' has been added to the list of options for the line graph
• Modified graphics
• New icon

Check it out on the software page.

21 January 2004, Wow, I actually had to restart my computer because it crashed. It's been a long time since that happened.

Anyways, I'm close to finishing the next version of CPU Grapher. I'll hopefully have it out by the end of the week. I'm just doing some tweeking with the graphics and some last bits of code checking.

15 January 2004, New Widget! Sure, I probably should have been working on easyKal but the idea for a new widget popped into my head and I had to see if I could make it. For a while I've been wanting a CPU graph like the ones that are in Activity Viewer. The problem is that to use the one in Activity Viewer you need the entire program running even though you only want a small graph. As a solution to the problem I've made a widget called CPU Grapher which can now be found on the software page.

13 January 2004, I still haven't really continued the coding of easyKal yet. That doesn't mean I haven't been working on it though. I've been looking around the internet for some good algorithms for working out what dates recurring events occur on. Unfortunately the internet doesn't seem to hold the answer(except in a few cases where it gives very cryptic answers). I think I can't find anything good enough because I want an algorithm which looks specificly at today whereas most of the algorithms and ideas on the 'net are for the entire calendar.

Continuing on from my last update of news(see below) the ability to use the same colours as iCal uses seems to be broken. It seems that iCal now stores it's colour information in a different place but that shouldn't be too hard to fix. Also, I've been thinking about using Java instead of just straight Javascript. I'd like to use some of the standard methods and things that Java provides plus I find it easier to keep everything neat and tidy in Java as opposed to Javascript where I end up making a big mess. Plus I can use the Java in a background command rather than using the current Javascript which causes the spinning wheel of death when it goes into a big piece of code that takes a long time.

I've also got a couple of ideas for new widgets. I won't give away too many details but one will pretty much be completely useless(but still a nice bit of eyecandy), and the other will take advantage of Konfabulator's hotkeys. And I've actually just had a third idea which might help people in the development of widgets. But then again, I'm lazy so none of these ideas may never end up being coded.