Estimated shipping has been delayed a week. How difficult is it to throw some stuff in a case and ship it out?

Two weeks ago, I wrote about a Dashboard widget I found that would allow me to quickly post to my blog. It didn’t have an option for choosing a category, and would default to a base category. When you get down to it, isn’t everything about life?

Now I’ve found a new one, specifically tailored for WordPress, called WordPressDash. I agree, not a very clever name, is it? At least I can choose a category.

What is it with people named Andrew? Here’s the latest gibberish from someone that doesn’t have a clue. He blames Apple for his own inability to read a Web page. They clearly state iTunes is included in the download. And they conveniently have a link to the standalone installer right on the same page.

In other news, as Jobs mentioned in his WWDC Keynote, a Public Preview of QuickTime 7 is now available for Windows.

I’m nearly finished the first version of my Dashboard Widget. I’m trying to think of a name for it that doesn’t infringe on something else, so I think I’ll go with Batman. I have to give a big shout out to Masanao Izumo and his BigInt code for the final touch. What I had was failing past 2³²-1, and that solved my problem. There’re still some layout issues, and some design decisions left to make, but about 80% of the features I wanted are there.

I have to take a moment to praise the guys at Telestream, Inc. for their indispensable Flip4Mac suite of WMV tools. I bought their WMV QuickTime component so I can now load and play those annoying Windows Media files, as well as edit and convert them into better formats that are eminently more useful. For Windows people out there that don’t like Apple’s QuickTime Player for Windows, that would be like being able to play QuickTime movies natively in Windows Media Player. Now you see what I mean, right? Pretty sad that we have to pay a third-party for this kind of rudimentary functionality, when Microsoft should have provided this from the start with the craptastic Windows Media Player they have for OS X already.

What that all means is I can now watch Leeroy in all his glory in any QuickTime enabled software. Hell, if I really wanted to, I could easily make a screen saver that rotates the movie whenever my computer goes idle for more than 3 minutes.