Saturday, 16 September 2006

Widget Watch: eBay Watcher 3.0

If your picture is hanging on eBay's 'Favorite Customers of All Time' award wall, this eBay Watcher widget might be just for you. As a powerhouse eBay monitoring tool, this widget has it all: up to three items can be watched at once, audio feedback for price changes and auction ending, Growl notificatio , automatic refreshing at user- ecified intervals, localized di lay labels for German, French, anish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Italian and even a world clock. Just about the only thing this widget is mi ing is a kitchen sink, though I'm sure an eBay widget could help you even with that minor setback.

One complaint I have about this widget is the explanation as to why you should register it from Hawk I ovatio . Discu io about whether one should charge money for a widget aside, check it out: "< an cla ="bodytext">Our demo version has a 50-50 chance of working. Make sure your widget works 100% of the time by registering now!" Cryptic as that may be, I think it deserves at least a few points for being one of the more... unique demo limitatio I've seen.

So, a '50-50 chance of working' demo is available, and a lice e (which includes two machines) will run a mere $5. Hey: nobody said making eBay's 'favorite customers' wall was free.

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