Chicago Crime Watch 1.1 review
DownloadChicago Crime Watch Widget monitors a given Chicago city block with data from http://www.
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Chicago Crime Watch Widget monitors a given Chicago city block with data from http://www.chicagocrime.org. Events are displayed and linked to the Chicago Crime website where more information and a Google Map may be found.
This widget can monitor any of the city blocks serviced by http://chicagocrime.org - one of the first Google Maps mashups. Due to the infrequent updates to the crime data, this widget caches data for a minimum of six hours, and it checks to see whether it should update automatically, when the Dashboard layer is shown.
The widget also checks network connectivity to prevent hangups.
As a Chicago resident, I find this widget to be pretty useful, and I hope that others will as well. I have a couple of improvements that I would like to make, but in the meantime, enjoy! (And I promise the widget is much better designed than this website!)
What's New:
Cocoa network connectivity checking plugin updated to be a Universal Binary.
Requirements:
Active internet connection.
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