Melbourne (Australia) Train Times on your Dashboard

Shine Technologies is proud to support Mark Johnson in his development of the Melbourne Trains Widget for the OS X Dashboard. This widget is based on the Melbourne Trains Widget for the Yahoo! Widget Engine by Peter Sienkowski.

Name Melbourne Trains Dashboard widget
Version 1.2.1
Author(s) Mark Johnson (Shine Technologies)
Homepage http://www.shinetech.com
License BSD

Description/Features

The Melbourne Trains Widget enables you to keep track of the next 2 trains between stations you are interested from your very own desktop! With multiple instances you can keep track of several lines, or just to and from work. With a handy Lead Time variable, you can even leave enough time to pack up and travel to the station!

Installation

Simply download the Melbourne Trains Widget, extract it and double click the widget to install into your dashboard. To install more instances simple click the '+' icon to open the widget manager and drag additional copies onto your dashboard.

Configure the Melbourne Trains Widget

This is the screen you will see to configure the widget.  Its pretty straight forward and is the only configuration you will ever need to do.

  • Pick your starting station
  • Pick your end station
  • Choose your lead time (the time it takes you to get to the station)
  • Click Done and thats it you can now keep track of your trains.

Manually refreshing the times

If you want to manually refresh the Widget you can by clicking anywhere on the widget.

Screenshots