NaNo Progress Meters
Just Three days to the NaNo kickoff. do you have your widgets?
Widgets can help keep you, and your friends, motivated throughout the process. They’re usually simple to add to your blog, especially if you’re using WordPress. NaNo widgets come in a variety of forms, from exceedingly simple to insanely complex programming masterpieces.
Here’s a quick list of the plugins and widgets I’ve been able to find today.
- NaNoWrimo pac-man tracker (WordPress Plugin)
- Writertopia’s Progerss meters (All Platforms) very simple progress meter with good instructions
- NaNo Progress meter plugin for Firefox (Firefox Web Browser) Displays aword count meter in the status bar ofthe Mozilla Firefox browser.
- NaNoWriMo Word Meter (All Platforms) Simple graphical meter you can add to your blog
- NaNoWrimo Widget For Windows Vista (Ummm, Winders Vista) I don’t know about this one, as I refuse to give Mr’s. Gates and Balmer any more of my hard-earned-money for yet another new OS.
There are probably many more available. I even found a KDE desktop widget (Nice if you’re running Linux like I am), but I couldn’t manage to get it to work and no instructions for doing so were provided.
There used to be many more widgets available, but unfortunately they are usually terminated due to bandwidth costs very early in their lifespan. Who knows, I may write one for next year’s NaNo just to see how hard my server gets slammed.
Until next time, dear readers…

November 8th, 2007 at 9:35 am
The Pac-Man widget has been updated for 2007 and is ready to go!