giffgaff Widget for Windows/Linux

[#1]

A recent request in the Ideas board for a Windows compatible sidebar widget to display your giffgaff balance set me thinking.

Thanks to some great work from xmob, there is already a Mac OS X one available at 

http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Contribute-Innovation-Promotion/giffgaff-Widget-For-Mac-OS-X/m-p/15...

PLEASE NOTE. THAT THE MAC WIDGET IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE AS XMOBS SITE NO LONGER SEEMS TO EXIST

Rather than build a Windows version, what if you could run the Mac one on Windows or even Linux. I did a little research and found a free solution that allows interoperability of Mac widgets across other operating systems.

Enter The Kludget Engine (Kludget stands for Klumsy, Lame, Ugly, Dumb but Good Enough) 

http://kludgets.com/

The engine allows you to run MAC OS X dashboard widgets on Windows and Linux o/s

• Download and install the engine from http://kludgets.com/download/
• Download and save the giffgaff widget from http://www.xmob.co.uk/downloads/widgets/giffgaff_widget_current.zip
• Click on the engine icon in your task bar and open a widget
• Browse to the giffgaff widget zip file you saved earlier
• The widget should open and display on your desktop
• Click the i button in the corner of the widget and enter your giffgaff username/password into the boxes and click done

If all goes to plan, the widget should display your current balances/free giffgaff to giffgaff expiry date , blog posts etc

Note that due to website changes it will not show your actual live goodybag selection, but will show the remaining minutes balance from it

I have so far tested this on Windows 7, but would be grateful if people could report their experiences, so that we can confirm if this is a fully working solution

Don't forget to kudos Xmob's post as they did the hard work on the widget

[#2]

I'll give it a go over the weekend on Ubuntu and Windows XP on my home machine, sounds prettty cool

[#3]

Looks good, Might try it later. Can you post on the forums from the widget?

[#4]

No, the widget just provides a link that launches the blog or forum posts in a web browser i'm afraid

[#5]

Oh ok, I guess it will be useful mainly for checking balance etc then.

[#6]

I'm absolutely GOBSMACKED that this still works!  I haven't bothered updating it for months.

[#7]

Anyone know if it will work on Windows Xp ? As would like to try it out on my netbook

[#8]

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@xmob wrote:

I'm absolutely GOBSMACKED that this still works!  I haven't bothered updating it for months.

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Just tested it with another account that has goodybags.

It does show the minutes left on the current goodybag, however it doesn't show which value of goodybag is active

[#9]

Good solution darrenpainter!

[#10]

The goodybag pickup sort of works.  It's able to give you the status (left minutes etc) but not the actual goodybag.