Download de Brandstofprijzen widget en vergeet niet je commentaar achter te laten!

Daarom is de widget nu ge-update (naar versie 1.1), zodat deze weer werkt.

Download de Brandstofprijzen widget en vergeet niet je commentaar achter te laten!

Zo kan er zo snel mogelijk weer gebruik worden gemaakt van de NL Weerradar widget onder Snow Leopard!

Die is er nu voor Mac OS X Dashboard: de Brandstofprijzen Widget.

Geef de postcode, de afstand en het brandstoftype op en de widget haalt de gegevens op en presenteert de resultaten overzichtelijk. Bladeren door de resultaten gaat d.m.v. de knopjes onderaan. Klikken op het adres opent de locatie op Google Maps. De resultaten zijn voorzien van de logo’s van de bekende tankstations.

De ingevoerde gegevens en de laatste zoekresultaten worden bewaard, zodat deze ook na een herstart van de computer of de widget direct beschikbaar zijn.

Downloaden van de widget en commentaar op de pagina van de Brandstofprijzen Widget!

Download version 1.5 of the Euro Stocks widget.

For comments, please go to the Euro Stocks widget’s page!

Enjoy!

Note to users who update. Please write down the codes of your indices/stocks/funds before you update! Due to a design decision made earlier (to allow multiple instances of the widget, all with their own preferences) and the fact that Apple doesn’t provide a way to keep the unique widgetID between updates, the preferences of your widget won’t be retained between updates.

Downloaden van NL Weerradar Widget versie 2.2

Commentaar op de widget gelieve op de pagina van NL Weerradar widget zelf!

Dashboard’s behaviour (expressed through methods and properties) is farely well documented, but I’ve been breaking my head over a number of things, which I eventually had to find out through trial and error. Had they been included in the official Dashboard reference…

Below is a list of the quirky behaviour I’ve encountered while developing the widgets on this site.

• widget.onshow fires on: showing the Dashboard (documented), placing a new instance on the Dashboard (undocumented). The latter undocumented feature would also fire when the widget would be “installed” or “replaced”, which I believe is similar to placing a new instance.
• reloading (CMD+R) the widget is apparently not the same as placing a new instance on the Dashboard, as widget.onshow is not fired. (undocumented)
• widget.onremove fires when a widget is replaced with (another version of) the same widget. Not so handy when you use the widget.identifier to allow for multiple instances of the same widget, all with their own preferences. (undocumented)
• the widget.identifier is not retained when a widget is replaced with (another version of) the same widget. Moreover, when multiple instances are present at one time, they are all replaced by one (in total) virgin instance. Again, not so handy (see previous remark) (undocumented)

So, I hope this info will somehow either be included with the official documentation (I’ve filed a feedback report at Apple’s website) or you’ll be able to find it here.

I’m sure anyone in the business of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) has read the article on Exact Keyword Tracking with Google Analytics on ROIrevolution.com. If you haven’t, do so now!

The client I’ve been working for lately, wanted to extend their reach from Google Adwords to Yahoo Search Marketing (YSM) (Yahoo search accounted for 23% of organic search of US’ visitors). I wanted to capture the same data (“keyword bidded on” vs. “exact search phrase/keyword”) for YSM as for Adwords. Well, that happens to be entirely possible, one might even say better possible with YSM than with Adwords.

I’m not going to explain to you in detail how you can add extra information to your landing page URL, as this page about Tracking Yahoo! Keyword Data in Google Analytics on PPCHero.com already does that in detail.

So, here it goes at a high pace:

Add the following query string to your landingpage URL for any Ad in YSM:

?utm_source=ysm&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term={YSMKEY}&utm_content={YSMADID}&utm_campaign={YSMADGRPID}&query={YSMRAW}

Now, when you’ve read the abovementioned article on ROIrevolution.com, or are already using their ga_keyword2.js javascript file, you only need to replace the file with the following modified ga2_keyword2.js to track exact keywords of Yahoo Search Marketing and Google Adwords in Analytics (right click to “Save link as…”).

The biggest difference between tracking exact query’s of YSM and Adwords is the way that info is transmitted to the client:

• Yahoo Search Marketing puts the info in the URL query string (when you use the abovementioned query).
• Google Adwords puts the info in the referrer string

Therefore the script has been slightly modified to detect whether the source is YSM or Adwords, and parse the URL or referrer string accordingly.

Yahoo Search Marketing will appear in Google Analytics as “ysm”. When you like it to appear as “yahoo” (and thus merge it with the organic search results, although you can differentiate between those using the paid/non-paid links on the Search Engines page) you will need to make some edits.
You need to replace utm_source=ysm with utm_source=yahoo in the query string for your Ad landing page.
In the modified ga_keyword2.js javascript file, on line 47, replace utm_source=ysm with utm_source=yahoo.

So, the only thing you need to do is:

• Add the query string to every Ad’s landing page URL in Yahoo Search Marketing (don’t blame me for their cr*p interface).
• Replace your existing ga_keyword2.js with the modified version.

That’s it! Enjoy you newfound wisdom!

Met grote dank aan gebruiker Jasper die mij hierbij heeft geholpen!

Versie 2.1 brengt radar- en satellietbeelden van de buien en het wolkendek boven Nederland en een groot deel van België. Hiervoor worden de bronnen Buienradar.nl, Sat24.nl en Wetteronline.de benut.

Download de NL Weerradar widget versie 2.1

Commentaar, opmerkingen of vragen? Graag op de pagina van de NL Weerradar widget zelf!

Nu hoor ik u denken: “Geheel nieuw? De widget ziet er hetzelfde uit!”. En dat klopt. Want al het werk is “onder de motorkap” terecht gekomen. Ik ben flink met de bezem door de onderliggende code heen gegaan. Dat betekent dat ik in de toekomst sneller kan reageren op veranderingen op de websites waar de radar- en satellietbeelden vandaan komen: Buienradar, Sat24 en Wetteronline.

Toch zijn er wel een aantal zichtbare verbeteringen doorgevoerd:

• De bewolkingsbeelden van Sat24.nl zijn toegevoegd. Zowel stilstaand beeld als animatie. Infrarood en zichtbaar licht.
• Het laden van de regenbuien-/bewolkingsafbeelding wordt duidelijker weergegeven.
• Wanneer er geen recente afbeelding wordt gevonden, wordt gepoogd een oudere afbeelding weer te geven.

Download de NL Weerradar widget

Commentaar, vragen, complimenten? Dat mag, maar dan wel graag op de pagina van de NL Weerradar widget zelf!

Houd het hoofd droog!