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 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 Windows Live SDK for Gadgets
Another Windows Live SDK has been released, this time for Windows Live Gadgets, and you can ?start using this SDK right now to build Gadgets that run on Live.com? according to James Lau on the Gadgets blog.
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30.5.2006 Pink Windows Vista
Microsoft has in Japan, combined Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Live OneCare in one eye-popping hot pink box.
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29.3.2008 A Mac-to-Vista Switcher in Pink
This weekend, my 13-year-old daughter and I set out to replace her first-generation MacBook. She instead picked a pink Sony VAIO running Windows Vista Home Premium.
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3.12.2007 Pink Zune and another vibrant color release
According to Jason Reindorp of Zune, some weeks after the release of the Pink Zune in 1st May, another "vibrant color" version will be released a few weeks later.
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3.4.2007 Ford sells pink 30GB first-gen Zune, donates 100% to breast cancer research
It's October, which inevitably means that we'll be seeing a healthy dose of gadgets in pink as manufacturers look to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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19.10.2007 Windows Media Center Gadgets for Windows SideShow
Microsoft has extended the control of Windows Media Center in Windows Vista beyond the limits of the operating system to devices adjacent to the platform via Windows SideShow. With the Windows SideShow technology, users are enabled to access information from their Vista machine on a variety of additional
hardware from mobile phones to digital picture frames.
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8.7.2008 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 Vista Sidebar Gadget Published
My first Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget has been published to gallery.live.com.
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9.2.2007 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 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 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 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 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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17.8.2009 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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20.9.2009Maximizing 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 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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31.05.2006Google Desktop 4 Gets Gadgets
Google on Tuesday released the
final version of Google
Desktop 4, the search
engine's desktop search
utility and sidebar
application. The new release
brings tighter integration
with Google services, and new
"Google Gadgets,"
which expand the capabilities
of previous sidebar plug-ins...
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28.06.2006Windows 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
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posting this
article!
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03.02.2006Outlook 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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30.11.2007Pink Zune Outselling White, Brown
Microsoft may have found a way
to better compete with
Apple's ubiquitous iPod: the
color pink. Since introducing
the limited edition pink Zune
before Mother's Day, the
color has become the second
most popular, only trailing
black in sales, the company
said Thursday...
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24.05.2007Web Based Microsoft Gadgets Go
'Live'
As part of its Windows Live
unveiling Tuesday, Microsoft
rolled out a new version of
MicrosoftGadgets.com, which
serves host to
mini-applications that can
reside either in Windows
Vista's Sidebar or on the new
Live.com Web site. The company
is offering up three Xbox 360
consoles to spur development
of Live.com Gadgets...
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02.11.2005Ford and Microsoft Team Up on Pink Zune
Microsoft has produced a limited edition pink Zune for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and got Ford to get on board to donate
100% of the
proceeds.
It's October, which inevitably means that we'll be seeing a healthy dose of gadgets in pink as manufacturers
look to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This particular device, however, means a touch more to the cause than most, as both Ford and Microsoft
are teaming up to donate "100-percent of the purchase price" to Susan G.
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20.10.2007Fix Windows 7 Sidebar With UAC Off
As many of you undoubtedly know already, in Windows 7 Beta 1, disabling UAC also causes the gadgets to stop working. This can be very annoying,
especially for the power users who turn off UAC, or for those who are turning it off in order to avoid that nasty token elevation bug that rears it's
ugly head out of random on some machines...
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19.01.2009Microsoft's project "Pink" specs revealed?
Over the past week there have been a ton of rumors in relation to a variety of Microsoft's upcoming products and services. The folks up in Redmond
have been hard at work for over a year on a top secret project codenamed "Pink". We get the question all the time, "What exactly is
‘Pink'?" The people working on the project have been extremely quiet, not much is known except that the device isn't going to be
manufactured by Microsoft. A few weeks ago
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12.05.2009Source: Pink Zunes to Return
BetaNews has learned that
Microsoft plans to reissue the
pink Zunes in a limited
fashion by Mother's Day, with
at least one retailer
expecting to receive the
devices within the week...
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18.04.2007Rumor: Microsoft & Verizon in talks to launch "Pink" mobile
We've known for quite some time now that the folks up in Redmond were working on a top-secret Windows Mobile 7 powered device, dubbed codename:
Pink. Our friend Mary Jo Foley has had an obsession for codename Pink for the last few years. Today the Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft
and Verizon are currently in talks in launching a "touch-screen multimedia cellphone on the carrier's network early next year." Microsoft's
CEO Steve Ballmer has already confirmed that Microsoft will not be producing the physical hardware for codename Pink, but the company will have the
phone branded with the Microsoft logo. The focus on codename Pink will be Zune services, Windows Mobile Marketplace, MyPhone Services, and Windows
Mobile 7.
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29.04.2009Windows Vista Sidebar Protection Update Available
Install this update to improve protection in Windows Sidebar. This update enables Windows Sidebar to block certain gadgets from running. After you
install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
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08.01.2008Gadget 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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14.09.2007Microsoft's Pink: What's the latest?
Microsoft’s mysterious
“Project Pink” is back in the
news, with word from Ad Week that the Redmondians are obtaining bids from various ad agencies for a Pink campaign.
Exactly
what Pink is and isn’t has been tough to pin down especially given that Microsoft officials haven’t even been willing to acknowledge the
codename.
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15.04.2009Special Edition Zunes Are Pretty in Pink
While overall sales may not be
all that impressive, there is
still a rabid enthusiast
community looking to snag some
100 special edition
pink-colored Microsoft Zunes,
which have begun appearing on
eBay...
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30.11.2006More types of gadgets for iGoogle
Google Desktop lets you not only search your computer easily, but you can also personalize your desktop. From cultivating a virtual potted plant, to
reading the latest news and checking the weather forecast, you can customize your desktop with a variety of gadgets and a sidebar. Some of you have
asked if you can also put gadgets on iGoogle homepages next to your other gadgets. And starting today, the answer is yes.
With
Google Desktop 5.5 Beta, you can you now embed Google Desktop Gadgets right into your iGoogle homepage.
Gadgets on an iGoogle homepage can have more advanced functionality, such as
playing music from your computer. You can find
them alongside other gadgets in the iGoogle Content Directory. We've also improved some of the other features; such as better looking Quick Search
Box, support for multiple copies of a gadget, and improved Outlook search functionality. Read more on the
Google Desktop Blog and check out
these gadgets you can now add to your iGoogle homepage.
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06.10.2007Amazon Starts Selling Pink Zune 30GB Digital Media Player
Here's a quick note for all
of those interested in a Pink
Zune. Amazon.com has began
selling the Pink coloured Zune
30 GB Digital Media Player,
not to be confused with
rumoured Zune 2.0 in Baby Pink
or the even later coming Zune
2.0 in Watermelon Red. This is
the official Pink Zune which
originally debuted as a
limited 100-unit release but
recently received a 100,000
unit production target. Amazon
is pricing the 30GB device at
the typical price of
$249.99 USD. The other
colours are priced lower at a
discounted $220 USD, but
if you insist on the pink, you
can supposedly get a used one
from $209.99 USD. Don't
forget shipping.
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13.04.2007Windows 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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15.09.2005First pictures of Microsoft's 'Pink' phones revealed
Microsoft's secret project, dubbed 'Pink', is quite a big deal amongst the rumor community. We talked about it a little while ago, and
things have certainly developed since then. Just earlier, Gizmodo revealed the first pictures of two 'Pink' phones which Microsoft hasn't
officially acknowledged yet. The two phones are called 'Turtle' and 'Pure', and are going to be produced by Sharp, who will share
branding with Microsoft on the devices. Please note that in the photos included below, the first one is 'Turtle' and the latter is
'Pure'. They're quite interesting devices, very rounded and sleek, with the 'Turtle' looking similar to the Palm Pre.
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