TMobile (USA) Minutes Used version 1.4
posted by Winston Huang @ 2/24/2008 02:55:00 PM
TMobile Minutes Used Firefox Extension
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
23 Comments:
Glad you're still updating the extension.
Any word on FF3 support or a widget anything like that?
Thanks
v1.4 works great for me! Thanks!
I love this extension. Aside from being able to check multiple accounts at once I would like to see you write a widget for the new Chumby. I would do it myself, but you know....I can't . :(
It was a pleasant surprise to see this update! Thanks for this!
Winston,
This is a great extension and I thank you for writing it. I'm also interested in seeing a FF3 version. Any news?
Did it stop working?
The projection is still not correctly calculated.
http://tinyurl.com/2pjjxe
Seems to be incorrect for the first several days of the billing cycle and then seems to become more accurate as more time goes by.
How can the projection for the month be less than the current number of minutes used?
21 mins for first 2 days = projection of 315 on a 30 day month...not 20.
I hope I don't sound like a jerk, but I'm just trying to explain what the problem is.
I do like the concept though!
your observation is correct. the calculation is complicated by the fact that tmobile web site doesn't update the last billing date promptly. So I have to guess the last statement date which is not always precise.
If the plugin checks and the billing date isn't updated, can you use the previous billing date and then just change the month? That might be a pretty good estimate. The only problem is if an account's billing cycle ends on the 29th, 30th or 31st...and the next month has less days...28, 29 or 30.
But in those cases, the next billing cycle would probably be on the 1st.
Then, when it actually posts the real date, revert back to that to make a more accurate calculation.
Thanks for your hard work! I hope you take my suggestions and comments as helpful and not as a cut to your efforts.
your comments and suggestions are definitely welcome. the plugin is currently doing more or less what you suggested. it probably is too basic as i don't have time to learn javascript's calendar operation.
Hey Winston, Thank you for developing this great plug-in. It's really handy tool for me.
I created a t-mobile icon to give more professional look to plug-in. You can download from:
http://www.firozansari.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/tmobile-logo.gif
http://www.firozansari.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/tmobile-logo.png
May be you can use these icons in next release.
- Firoz Ansari
It looks like T-Mobile recently changed the billing URL so it has been giving me cross-site security errors in Firefox 3.
I made a few sloppy changes here to get it working in Firefox 3.0pre. The changes also make it display the minutes used even when the page is down.
It sets usePwdMgr:false on line 94 of minutesTicker.js, so if you plan to use it in Firefox 2 you will have to change that back.
Chad, you're extension won't install because it "doesn't provide secure updates."
Chad your hacked version works for me on Firefox Beta 5 thanks! For "The Human Resource" person, simply turn off the Add On Security Update Checking in Firefox and you are good to go.
How do you do that?
about:config?
or something in Options?
I can't find it.
Check here:
http://consilium-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=121&Itemid=53
It was working great for me until FF 2.0.0.14 - Now "failed to parse the minutes used" on check. (Checking at TMobile site works fine) Thank you for this extension.
The extension isn't working on FF 2.0.0.14 on OSX (10.4.11). It working great on my WinXP machine using 3.0 beta 5 (after tweaking it a bit as described in the comments).
you want help porting this to a google-gadget, or something similar?
(Also, it's not working for me... so maybe I'll help fix whatever's broken, but I really like the idea behind this miniapp.)
I also echo the comments that the T-mobile extension stopped working recently.
i will take a look and try to fix it.
HEllo. The app is not working in:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
I have the Vista OS
Ditto, no worky recently.
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