I just finished posting the v1.1 of my IP Status gadget. But you can’t get it yet. Why? Because it is “Pending approval.” When it gets approved, you will notice a couple differences. One, it now has a shiny blue background. Two, it no longer requires you to load an asp page on a public website in order to get your public ip address. It uses a web service from whatismyip.com. Three, there is no longer a settings page, as it didn’t make sense to have one. The only thing that I could put into a settings page is maybe the refresh interval, but I am not worried about that at this time.
As soon as it gets approved, I will post the link here. Maybe now it will get more than 2 stars 
Here is a picture of it:
EDIT: It just got approved. Here is the link: http://gallery.live.com/LiveItemDetail.aspx?li=44a5ddd7-daa1-46cc-a9fa-7204b734f074
August 16, 2007 at 8:11 pm |
Are you actually using whatismyip.ORG? If so, please correct your description and please make it a link to http://www.whatismyp.org
- Operators of whatismyip.org
(also please make sure not to hit us more often than once every 10 minutes)
September 11, 2007 at 12:48 pm |
I am not using whatismyip.org. Though that would be the simplest way, as I would not have to deal with XML at all.
March 23, 2008 at 4:39 am |
Nice gadget. But I have one little problem with it. It shows wrong Local IP address. It shows VMware Network Adapters IP, not my real ethernet cards IP.
It needs configuration options to choose right LAN adapter. And maybe option to show WLAN adapters IP also.
March 24, 2008 at 9:54 pm |
Thank you for the suggestion.
I have started the next version of the gadget, which will implement a settings page. On the settings page you can choose the LAN adapter to use, and change how often it checks to see if the IP address has changed.
I don’t know if the link posted above is still the correct link, as I know that I have posted an update since that screenshot was taken.
April 7, 2008 at 9:10 am |
It seems rather complex to setup. I am not really into this kind of detailed IP setting and troubleshooting. Any short tutorials as this is kind of a cool gadget?
April 7, 2008 at 9:40 am |
It is really not that complex. All of the IP code is adapted from vbscript that is output from MS’s WMI code creator. Look at the code and download the WMI code creator (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2cc30a64-ea15-4661-8da4-55bbc145c30e)
May 7, 2008 at 6:34 am |
no news from you Michael….?
March 8, 2009 at 7:37 pm |
I started a new job in November, after being unemployed for a year. Unfortunately, I do not have time to update this like I should.
May 12, 2008 at 10:49 pm |
Instead of using web service from whatismyip.com it should use from http://www.ipmango.com
March 8, 2009 at 7:49 pm |
I just looked at ipmango. If I was to use that page, I would have to scrape it for the information I need. It is a lot easier to use a web service that gives me just the needed information.
Thank you for the suggestion though Asif.
I am going to start working on the settings page (that I stopped working on a while ago), and look for more improvement suggestions also.