Vista Sidebar Gadget Published
My first Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget has been published to gallery.live.com.
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9.2.2007 Windows Media Player Sidebar Gadget
This sidebar gadget has all the capabilities of WMP as embedded in a web page including the ability to play playlists, moves, audio, etc (.wpl, .wmv, as.
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12.2.2007 Windows Live Calendar Gadget for Windows 7 Sidebar
Windows Live provides many useful web services like online calendar, Windows Live spaces, Photo Gallery etc. Live calendars lets you create your own calendar, store notes for important dates, birthday reminder, share calendar with friends and family, sync with windows mobile phone and much more.
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20.9.2009 Turn any web widget into a Vista Gadget
The Amnesty Generator for Windows is designed to let you convert any embeddable web site widget (including Google Gadgets) into a Vista Sidebar Gadget with very little work.
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6.2.2007 Free Gadget: Hard Drive Diagnosis Software
Is there any funny sound generated when your hard drive is in operation? Here I am introducing a free application that can be used to diagnose your hard drive problem.
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27.7.2008 Microsoft Romania Launches Gadget Competition for Windows Vista
Microsoft Romania has just launched a gadget competition for Windows Vista and Windows Live. Essentially, the contest is nothing more than a repeat of the Windows Vista Gadgets Competition on Code Project, with the sole exception that entries can now be submitted for both the client and the cloud Microsoft operating systems.
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10.9.2007 Microsoft releases Beta Windows Media Center SideShow Gadget
Brilliant, one of my very personal hot topics is Microsoft's SideShow technology for Windows Vista which is a technology for distributing interactive content to connected small-screen devices, such as Windows Mobile smartphones.
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6.7.2008 Maximizing Sidebar Gadgets
Many PC OEMs ship Windows Vista computers with Windows Sidebar enabled, usually only displaying the simple clock, photos and RSS feed gadgets.
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24.7.2007 Microsoft: No Sidebar Until Vista Beta 2
Testers and developers looking forward to playing with Vista's most prominent new feature over the holidays will have to wait a bit longer. Microsoft officials confirmed to BetaNews late Monday that the Windows Sidebar won't be delivered in a public build until Beta 2.
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20.12.2005 Windows Sidebar Gallery Launches
In preparation for the public release of Windows Vista Beta 2, Microsoft put live over the weekend a beta Web site for hosting gadgets that run within the Windows Sidebar.
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31.5.2006 Vista 5744 Sidebar 4 XP
ricktendo64 made a easy 5744 Sidebar and VAIO Installer for XP.
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14.12.2006 NVIDIA Forceware 163.75/6 for Windows
It was just over a day ago that 163.74 was leaked for Vista and now NVIDIA have released new drivers for both Windows XP and Windows Vista in 32bit and 64bit flavours.
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14.10.2007 Outlook 2007 Gadgets for Windows Sidebar
If you’re a fan of the Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar, but wish your upcoming appointments and tasks could be shown even when Outlook was minimized, I’ve got great news for you, you can do this today with the Outlook Sidebar Gadgets.
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1.12.2007 NVIDIA Unleashes Big Bang II
A few months ago, NVIDIA announced its plans to release a GeForce R180 series of drivers meant to bring new features and technology innovations to its graphics cards.
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23.10.2008 Vista Sidebar showcases desktop-Web integration
Long Zheng has published some fantastic Windows Vista screencasts, which display the power of the Vista OS - released as a developer beta last week. The screencast that I was most interested in was the Sidebar. Similar in appearance and functionality to the Dashboard feature of Mac OS X Tiger, the Vista Sidebar allows users to manage their gadgets (Microsoft's term for widgets) and other content such as RSS feeds.
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14.6.2006 ATI Radeon X1650XT vs. Nvidia GeForce 7600GT
The next generation of mid-range graphics cards are just around the corner, so should you even consider purchasing a GeForce 7600GT or Radeon X1650XT graphics card?
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7.12.2006 Nvidia’s High-End Chipset Under Fire for Problems
Nvidia Corp., a leading designer of graphics processor and core-logic sets, is about to face criticism from enthusiasts for the problems that occur with the company’s latest premium-class chipset.
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16.12.2006 NVIDIA Releases WHQL Vista RTM Drivers
On January Nvidia finally released the long-awaited final graphics drivers for Windows Vista.
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8.1.2007 Nvidia GeForce Forceware 163.71 Beta
Nvidia has released Vista & XP drivers for the Geforce 6, 7 & 8 series. This is not a WHQL release, is in beta form and available in 32bit and 64bit flavours.
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22.9.2007 Get Longhorn Style Sidebar in Windows 7 & Vista with Longbar
Prior to Windows Vista it was known as Longhorn which was revolutionary Windows Operating system.
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29.10.2009 ATI Radeon X1650 Pro vs. Nvidia GeForce 7600GS
As much as we love testing and talking about the latest innovations in PC graphics, it's only a fraction of the gamers market that can truly enjoy these high-end products as soon as they come out of the oven because of its high prices.
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31.10.2006 Nvidia Launches DirectX 10 Graphics Card for $299
Partners of Nvidia Corp., the world’s largest supplier of standalone graphics processors, have unveiled a 320MB flavour of the GeForce 8800 GTS (the other flavour has 640MB memory onboard).
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13.2.2007 Nvidia ForceWare for Windows Vista 100.64 (BETA)
Nvidia has released yet another beta set of video drivers for Windows Vista. As usual, only English flavours (both 32bit and 64bit) are available.
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16.2.2007 NVIDIA ForceWare v162.22 WHQL for Windows Vista
There is a new Windows Vista WHQL driver release available to download from NVIDIA, v162.22.
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28.7.2007 Nvidia Hit With New Class Action Threat Over Windows Vista Glitches
A New Yorker is seeking support for a class action suit against the video card manufacturer because he says drivers for the company's high-end 8800 card have caused him problems.
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25.4.2007 Windows 7 Thoosje Sidebar in Windows Vista & Xp
You can enjoy windows 7 on your Windows Vista and XP with Windows 7 Transformation pack, Windows 7 Taskbar Sbar, Windows 7 Screensaver for Xp.
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17.8.2009Gadget Samples for Windows Sidebar
These gadget samples are intended to demonstrate the functionality of the Windows Sidebar scripting elements. In addition, most of the code snippets
found throughout the Sidebar Reference documentation are extracted directly from the gadget code provided here.
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14.09.2007WebSlices Hit the Desktop
Sarah Perez: I just saw
a post this morning about
Sean Lyndersay's new Sidebar gadget called the "
WebSlice Viewer Gadget." This brilliant little
creation brings IE8's WebSlices (bits of web content that you can access from the new IE8 Favorites Bar) right to your desktop via a simple Vista
Sidebar gadget.
The gadget, currently
in alpha (you've been warned!), requires Vista (unknown if x64 supported,
but let us know), IE8, and a web page that has
some WebSlices. Each
instance of the WebSlice Viewer shows only one WebSlice, so you will need to open multiple gadgets to show multiple views.>
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01.04.2008Indexer Status Sidebar Gadget for Windows Search
Brandon Paddock, who works on the Windows Shell Team here at Microsoft, wrote a Windows Sidebar Gadget that displays the
status of the Windows Search Indexer.
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11.04.2008Xbox Friends Watch - a Sidebar Gadget using Silverlight
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26.10.2007Tivo Gadget for Windows Vista
Mike Swanson recently blogged about a cool new gadget he wrote for the Windows Vista Sidebar, the
TiVo Gadget for Windows Vista. The gadget,
available for download
here, is the
perfect addition to TiVo users' desktops. Even if you have multiple TiVos in your house, you can utilize this gadget to see the "Now Playing" lists
from your DVR. You can configure the gadget to group shows from the same series together and when the gadget notices a new recording, it will ding.
For homes with multiple TiVos, you can give the units friendly names, like "Downstairs" or "Den" to help identify them...
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11.12.2007Outlook 2007 Gadgets for Windows Sidebar
If you’re a fan of the Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar, but wish your upcoming appointments and tasks could be shown even when Outlook was minimized,
I’ve got great news for you, you can do this today with the Outlook Sidebar Gadgets.
One of the new features introduced in Windows
Vista is the Windows Sidebar, an application that allows gadgets—small applications that provide quick access to useful information or
commands—to be displayed on your desktop or in the Sidebar.
The Sidebar presented a great opportunity for Outlook to surface the same
information that we show in the To-Do Bar. To this end, we developed two Outlook gadgets: Outlook Appointments and Outlook Tasks. These gadgets can be
used independently or together to provide at-a-glance information without the need to bring up Outlook.
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30.11.2007Windows Live Video Messages “ new tech preview coming soon
You kill one service, and another one springs up to take its place. The Windows Live
Support
and
Feedback sites helpfully spilled the beans on
Windows Live Video Messages, a new beta service that ties in with the LifeCam range of
webcams.
As we mentioned in our recent post on the
new
upcoming LifeCams, the VX5500 and the LifeCam Show, the new devices are compatible with a a Windows Vista sidebar gadget. Turns out this gadget is
part of the new Video Messages service, along with a to-be-released web portal.
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20.08.2008Maximizing Sidebar Gadgets
Many PC OEMs ship Windows
Vista computers with Windows
Sidebar enabled, usually only
displaying the simple clock,
photos and RSS feed gadgets.
You may've found that they
install their own home-grown
gadgets to show off additional
features or apps installed on
the PC, or as sales tools for
other products. You may even
have turned off the Sidebar
because you already have a
clock in the systray and you
use other ways to check RSS
feeds.
If so, you're
missing out, as there's a
Windows Sidebar gadget for
almost anything you might
want: PC utilities, music,
messaging, traffic reporting,
searching or just a quick game
can be yours with a click of
the mouse. If you haven't
taken the time to explore
gadgets beyond those loaded by
default, take a minute to
right-click the Sidebar and
select 'Add Gadgets.' From
there, click 'Get More
Gadgets Online' -- youll find
over 1000 different gadgets
available for download.
There are still other ways
to find gadgets: visit the
Microsoft
Gadgets Gallery,
Windows Live
Gallery and
Code
Project for hundreds more.
In addition, you'll find
links to resources for
developers and a way to submit
your own gadgets for others to
use.
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24.07.2007Windows Vista CTP to Feature
Sidebar, Gadgets
A February CTP (Community
Technology Preview) of
Microsoft's planned
Windows Vista
OS will feature Windows
Sidebar and Gadgets
technology, for adding
mini-applications such as
video or audio feeds to the
Windows desktop. Gadgets
providing access to these
applications are represented
by desktop icons.
These icons are then
organized on the scrollable
Sidebar on the screen,
Microsoft officials said at
the combined Software
Architecture Summit and
Middleware Summit conferences
on Wednesday.
Thanks to
boytoy for
posting this
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03.02.2006Windows Sidebar: 'Sky's The
Limit'
In some of the earliest builds
of Longhorn, the Sidebar was
the most visible change. While
its eventual use within the
operating system wasn't
initially clear, its sudden
disappearance in the build
given to attendees of WinHEC
surprised many Windows
enthusiasts...
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15.09.2005Turn any web widget into a Vista Gadget
The Amnesty Generator for
Windows is designed to easily
convert any embeddable web
site widget (including Google
Gadgets) into a Vista Sidebar
Gadget. Compared to Vista's
Gadget library's relatively
meager 275 gadgets, Google
Gadgets for your web page, for
example, currently sports over
3000 widgets. So basically,
Vista's gadget library just
grew from 275 to 275 plus 3000
plus whatever other web
widgets you can find on the
Internet. If this sounds
familiar to OS X users, it is
because Amnesty Generator is
also available for Dashboard.
The generator currently has a
few bugs (particularly in the
visual interface department),
but overall it works fairly
well.
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06.02.2007KlipFolio Adds Sidebar Functionality
Software company Serence on
Tuesday released an update to
its KlipFolio widget
application, offering users
new functionality such as a
mini-sidebar, and new
organization and sharing
features...
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21.02.2007Microsoft: No Sidebar Until
Vista Beta 2
Testers and developers looking
forward to playing with
Vista's most prominent new
feature over the holidays will
have to wait a bit longer.
Microsoft officials confirmed
to BetaNews late Monday that
the Windows Sidebar won't be
delivered in a public build
until Beta 2...
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20.12.2005Windows Vista Sidebar
Columnist Scott Lowe explains
how to use the new Windows
Sidebar feature in Windows
Vista...
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15.08.2006Google Desktop 3 Beta Released
Google released a new version
of its desktop search feature
on Thursday, allowing searches
across multiple computers, the
ability to send Sidebar items
to friends, deeper
customization of Sidebar
features, and
password-protected search...
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09.02.2006Windows Vista Build 5487
Screenshots Released
Wednesday Winfuture.de, a
German Windows enthusiast
site, released a slew of
screenshots of the recently
aquired 5487 build of Windows
vista.
It
appears that the new task bar
and sidebar have still yet to
have been included, but you
will notice a few changes here
and there. The welcome screen
appears to have been
overhauled with many new
features adding an "Offers
from Microsoft" panel which
gives quick access to many new
Windows Live services such as
Messenger, Mail Center (still
currently known as Mail
Desktop Beta) and OneCare.
Another thing
you will spot is a slightly
tuned interface in Media
Center, nothing big as it
appears they just tweaked the
drop shadows and a few
graphics.
Although the new sidebar
didn't make an appearance in
this build, some redesigned
gadgets did. The system
performance and weather gadget
have been redesigned as well
as the stocks gadget.
Last but not least
is the new voice recognition
feature (or after a bad
performance at a Microsoft
Conference last week, voice
wreck-ognition may be a more
appropriate term.) Voice
recognition allows you to
control the system and take
notes by using audio commands
which the system
recognizes.
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02.08.2006Windows Sidebar Gallery
Launches
In preparation for the public
release of Windows Vista Beta
2, Microsoft put live over the
weekend a beta Web site for
hosting gadgets that run
within the Windows Sidebar.
The site enables users to find
available gadgets and allows
developers to submit their own
creations...
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31.05.2006The Traffic Gadget is Back
OK, it's formally called the Live Search Maps gadget, but that's a mouthful so most people simply call it the "traffic gadget". The
traffic gadget was taken off the market for a few months for "security reasons" (not unlike like the Tylenol scare back in the 80's). In
any case, it's back!
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24.01.2008NVIDIA launches new GPUs, ATI lies in wait
Today was originally scheduled to be the date that both NVidia and ATI launched their next-generation graphics products, but NVidia had the only one
that made it out the door in time...
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18.06.2008What would NVidia want with a CPU company?
There may be an actual window of opportunity for graphics chip producer NVidia to acquire some x86 CPU design expertise and production prowess. But as
In-Stat's Jim McGregor told us, there are reasons why NVidia + Via wouldn't work...
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