Comments on: Now available: Time tracking widget for OS X

By: ByronFord.com » Blog Archive » Why I love FreshBooks and my clients will too

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:14:20 +0000

[...] can track my time with a start/stop timer that runs as a widget on my Mac desktop, or as an app on my iPhone. This makes it easy to track time while I’m [...]

By: Taavi Burns

Taavi Burns — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:47:08 +0000

Hey Lex, It sounds like you've got an old version of the widget. Please make sure you've got version 1.0.4 and see if it keeps happening. Hope that helps!

By: Lex Vilanova

Lex Vilanova — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:59:17 +0000

Even though mostly I love the widget, there is a very annoying “but” about it. Every time I restart or shutdown and start my computer it reloads the time with the last time I submitted. This forces me to go into my Freshbooks account, click on Reports > Timesheet Details, generate a report for that project to see if I did or not submit that time. Very annoying! You can’t be too careful with finances and time logging. So, please fix this issue! I would really appreciate it.

Cheers!

By: Taavi Burns

Taavi Burns — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:08:15 +0000

Hey Doug,

We implemented staff API tokens in May. Read the announcement!
http://developers.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/05/15/freshbooks-api-for-staff-time-tracking-is-here-and-more/

If you have any problems with it, please let us know. Thanks!

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:19:47 +0000

Hi guys – any E.T.A. update on when a new API with support for using desktop widgets for staff is coming? We are just in the process of setting up an integrated Freshbooks/Basecamp combo and for me the selling point on the Freshbooks piece was the sexy timetracking widget that might mean I can finally get my whole team on board with a simple, elegant time tracking solution. Woe is me to discover that I can currently only dump all hours into one user id. I see from earlier posts that it wasn’t a “tomorrow” kind of thing as of March, but if you can give any guidance on whether this is weeks, months or years out, it would be very helpful.

By: katherine

katherine — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:47:59 +0000

This is fantastic! Thank you !!! Freshbooks keeps getting better and better.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:49:47 +0000

Wow. You are awesome. Thank you so very much.

By: Taavi Burns

Taavi Burns — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:12:39 +0000

Kristin: I’ve just released version 1.0.4 of the widget, which you can download at the link above in the original post. This should fix the Tiger problem.

Eric: I sent you private email, but for the record, no, I haven’t seen that behaviour. I guess I should try on my MacBook at home, too. Are you also on Tiger, or on Leopard?

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:05:54 +0000

Has anyone else notice that the freshbooks widget is using a lot of CPU? when I remove it the problem goes away. If I reinstall, after a few hours the problem is back. It’s possible that the problem only arises after I sleep my macbook, but I haven’t confirmed that yet.

Thanks for the great widget!

By: Kristin

Kristin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:26:42 +0000

Yep, that’s the one. 1.0.3. Thanks!