Mike Piontek

If you’re not familiar with how Tense Code works, here’s a quick tutorial to show you the basics. There’s no narration, but it should be fairly straightforward. Here’s what you’ll see in this video:

• Logging in and selecting a site to edit
• Viewing your existing web site
• Adding a new entry
• Uploading an image with the entry
• Selecting categories
• Previewing and validating your new entry
• Saving the entry and then viewing the updated site

With all the talk about iPhone apps right now, I figure it’s time to make an official announcement. I can’t share a lot of details at the moment, but I am working on a version of Delivery Status for the iPhone (and iPod touch), and I hope to make it available in the next few months. I plan to support most of the services that are available in the widget, with the exception of Amazon and Google Checkout. (Hopefully I can find a way to get those working in a future version.)

What features do you want to see in Delivery Status for the iPhone? Let me know in the comments below!

PLEASE NOTE: Based on your feedback I’ve decided that the installer will no longer be included with Delivery Status—it is now a standard widget download, just like any other. Because of the new History button I’m sure many of you will find that you don’t miss the installer at all. For those of you that do miss the Smart Upgrade option, it’s still available as a separate download, now called Smart Widget Installer.

If you think this is a huge improvement, the worst idea ever, or you don’t even care at all, let me know in the comments! This has been a tricky decision but I think most will agree it’s an improvement.

Here’s a list of the other changes in this version:

• Added Poste Italiane (Paccocelere1, Paccocelere3, Postacelere1, PaccocelereMaxi, and PaccocelereInternazionale), thanks to Claudio Procida of Emeraldion Lodge
• The item name is now displayed even if your settings are not complete (rather than showing a blank widget) which is useful if you want to make note of an item you don’t have a tracking number for yet
• Fixed Posten (Sweden) tracking
• Fixed a bug with UPS Mail Innovations tracking
• Fixed a bug where Growl would sometimes display unnecessary messages
• Fixed a bug where the links to Growl, help, donate, and visit my site would not work correctly when Apple or Parcelforce was selected (new in beta 3)
• Updated to Growl framework version 1.1.3 (new in beta 3)

This beta is now closed, thanks for all your help!