#I'm sorry. I am not good at English. (:-P
This entry is an explanation of PiyoTrackbackPing. PiyoTrackbackPing is a Widget for Dashboard(freeware). This Widget sends Ping for Trackback.
Neither Korean nor Chinese are translated for localization (It is displayed in English). I seek the person who is translated.
Please download this software here.
Unzip the downloaded zip file.
In OS X10.4, I think that it can do the extraction by double-clicking.
Move the PiyoTrackbackPing.wdgt file to the following directories.
/Library/Widgets
[The item "PiyoTrackbackPing.wdgt" could not be moved because "Widgets" cannot be modifed.]
Please push the "Authenticate" button if the above-mentioned dialog is displayed. And please input ID and the password of the manager of Mac OS X. This Widget is correctly installed if displayed as shown in the figure below.
If you don't know manager's ID and password, you may put this widget on the "Widgets" folder under the "Library" in your home folder. Please deploy it after it creates it if the folder doesn't exist.


After starting Dashboard, you push the icon in the above figure. You try to switch the display page of the icon if the icon is not displayed.
The installation procedure is over.

Ping can be sent by inputting to all fields by hand and pushing "Send ping" button. However, RSS is usually registered because it is troublesome.
To do so, you push the "i" button displayed in lower right. Then, this widget rotates and a setting panel is displayed.

An initial setting panel is shown in the above figure. Please refer to here for the meaning of the option.
To register RSS, you push "+" button.

Then, the field to input URL of RSS in the center of the panel is displayed. You input URL that wants to read to this field.

It doesn't function only when inputting it, and you must push "Load" button.

When succeeding in loading the RSS file through the Internet, this widget is shown in the above figure. Please confirm whether URL is correct when failing. The possibility of the bug is high when URL is correct and it fails in reading.
You push "Apply" button if the loaded content is correct. Then, RSS is registered in the RSS list of the upper part.

Plural RSS can be registered by repeating a similar operation. Of course, plural RSS need not always be registered.
Please return widget to the front panel by pushing "Done" button.

It seems to be changeless. However, RSS registered ahead can be selected in the Blog name.
When RSS is selected, selected RSS is reflected in the field where the content of the first entry is the most appropriate.

If the entry to which you do trackback is selected from the title of the entry, and it inputs "URL to Ping", this widget becomes the following.

The state of this widget is "Sending trackback ping is possible.".
If you push "Sending Ping" button under such a condition, this widget sends a trackback ping.

The results are displayed in the message part like this. The processing is a success if displayed, "Trackback pinging succeeded."

Sending ping failed when "Trackback ping failed" are displayed in the message part as shown in the above figure. The message from the Trackback system is displayed in parentheses. In the example concerning the above figure, it failed by having sent the same contents. Please refer to console.app output if you cannot read the message.
Please switch and test "use cUrl" in the setting panel when failing.

You can select the character-code that wants to be used from choices in "URL to ping ".Default value of the character-code is "UTF-8".You should use it only when the character-code is specified with the Trackback system.

When you push "Clear" button, the input field is cleared.

When you push "Reload" button, RSS that has been selected is reload.
If you turn on the check box of "default RSS", the RSS is selected on starting up this Widget.

For example, when you set "default RSS" to "my cheep blog" with the setting panel, "*" is displayed at the head of "my cheep blog" on the RSS list.

When you push "Done" button, "my cheep blog" is selected in the front panel.


When you push "by piyosystems.com", the support site of this Widget is opened by a browser.
Choices of the character-code have been changed along with localization. It is a little that the person of a Japanese environment uses a Korean character-code, I think.

Japanese[ja]

English[en]

Chinese[zh_CN]

Chinese[zh_TW]

Korean[ko]


It is an entry that describes the process of making this Widget.
I will wait for the opinion and the impression.