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Vista Sidebar Gadget Published

My first Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget has been published to gallery.live.com.
windows - comments - 9.2.2007

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.
microsoft - comments - 6.2.2007

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.
windows - comments - 10.9.2007

Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0

Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) isn’t the only Microsoft anti-piracy scheme that might raise the hackles of future Vista customers. Volume Activation 2.0 is worrying some Vista testers who’ve had a chance to dabble with early versions of that technology.
windows - comments - 3.10.2006

About Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0

Computer professionals come across the word "Software piracy". It is related to copying, installing and making use of the software without legally purchasing the software.
windows - comments - 27.12.2006

Windows Vista Volume Licensing

Retail and original equipment manufacturer licenses of Windows Vista are designed to accompany copies of the operating system that ship especially to home users.
windows - comments - 9.11.2007

Vista SP1 Volume Activation 2.0 Resources Available

The introduction of Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista marked the evolution of various aspects of the Windows client with some reverberating all the way to Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1.
windows - comments - 14.7.2008

Windows Vista SP1 Volume Licensing

Volume Licensing is just one of the modalities to acquire Microsoft software, but perhaps, as customers are concerned, it is also the most appealing because of the cost savings it implies.
windows - comments - 15.7.2008

Windows Vista available on Microsoft Volume Licensing Site!

SA - Software Assurance. No ultimate edition yet!
windows - comments - 15.11.2006

Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0 Technical Guidance

Technical documentation focusing on planning, deployment and operational guidance.
download - comments - 6.12.2006

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.
download - comments - 12.2.2007

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.
download - comments - 27.7.2008

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.
microsoft - comments - 6.7.2008

Windows 7 Volume License and Trial Availability

Last month we made Windows 7 available to customers with Software Assurance and to MSDN and TechNet Subscribers. Today I am happy to announce two more ways for businesses to get Windows 7 for their deployment and evaluation.
windows - comments - 3.9.2009

Windows 7 coming to Volume Licensing starting September

Microsoft announced that businesses with Volume Licenses will be able to receive Windows 7 starting September 1.
windows - comments - 14.7.2009

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.
download - comments - 20.9.2009

Microsoft issues warning to Volume License customers over Windows Genuine Advantage fail

Phil Liu of Microsoft has reported problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage authentication method for Volume License Key (VLK) customers and a temporary work-around.
windows - comments - 5.10.2006

Could Not Find Valid System Volume Error When Installing Windows Server 2008 R2

When installing Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 with or without Hyper-V, Hyper-V Server 2008 or Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, and HPC Server 2008 or HPC Server 2008 R2, the Windows Server installation failed with “The computer could not find a valid system volume” error message.
windows - comments - 17.8.2009

Microsoft Office 2010 Volume License Product Key (VLK) Requires KMS or MAK for Activation

Volume licensing customers for Microsoft Office 2010 suites and applications who install volume editions of Office client software will require activation, even with a volume license key (VLK).
microsoft - comments - 26.8.2009

How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
download - comments - 23.9.2008

The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
windows - comments - 15.2.2008

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.
windows - comments - 27.3.2008

Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1

Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
windows - comments - 30.6.2008

Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer

In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
download - comments - 1.11.2009

Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2

Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
windows - comments - 27.12.2007

Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista

32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
windows - comments - 4.1.2008

Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String

Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
download - comments - 15.5.2008

x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's

The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
windows - comments - 10.6.2009

Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1

With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
windows - comments - 4.12.2007

New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend

Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
download - comments - 21.5.2007

Tivo 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...




winbeta.org - 11.12.2007

WebSlices 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.>




winbeta.org - 01.04.2008

Gadget 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.




winbeta.org - 14.09.2007

Vista Pushes Volume Licensing

During Microsoft's annual financial analysts conference today, the company's chief operating officer boasted about increases in Windows volume licensing.


It's the "best rate we've seen in many, many years," Kevin Turner said of annuity licensing contracts. He acknowledged that Windows Vista Enterprise and MDOP (Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack) were major drivers. Both products can only be purchased by way of volume licensing contract. By contrast, Windows XP Professional and supporting tools could be purchased without a volume licensing contract.


Turner said that about 42 millions PCs are covered by volume licensing. Among midsize businesses and enterprise, Windows annuity contract penetration is 19 percent, he said.


"I think it moved a point of two." Turner said about Windows volume licensing increases.


Historically, about 80 percent of Windows client revenue comes from OEMs. Microsoft wants to shiftsome could say forcecustomers to volume licensing, which would further smooth out Microsoft's balance sheet.



winbeta.org - 27.07.2007

Indexer 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.




winbeta.org - 11.04.2008

Turn 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.


neowin.net - 06.02.2007

Xbox Friends Watch - a Sidebar Gadget using Silverlight

winbeta.org - 26.10.2007

Finding Certified for Windows Vista Devices

Brandon LeBlanc: Ever in need to search for a Certified for Windows Vista device? I've got the site just for you. A few weeks ago I needed to find some Certified for Windows Vista devices in a specific category: printers. I was directed by a friend to the Windows Vista Hardware Compatibility site where they offer a searchable and categorized database for both Certified for Windows Vista devices and Works with Windows Vista devices. Check it out. I found exactly what I was looking for.



I also stumbled upon the "Look for the Logo" Gadget for Windows Sidebar which allows you to search for Certified for Windows Vista devices right from your desktop. Even better, the gadget was developed by gadget master Donavon West.



2 great resources for Certified for Windows Vista devices!




winbeta.org - 03.01.2008

The 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!




winbeta.org - 24.01.2008

Beloved toy takes on inexplicable electronic aspect

For every wonderful gadget that solves a problem you didn't even realize you had, the universe requires that there exist a gadget that solves a problem nobody has. Apparently TechnoSource is in charge of filling that role this week, and they're using a beloved old toy as their funnel...
betanews.com - 12.02.2009

Beta of an Outlook synchronization gadget for Google Apps

A great many Microsoft Outlook users don't have the benefit of an Exchange server, so their e-mail and calendar are bound to one PC. Now, a gadget just entering beta could help by extending the reach of personal data to the Web, through Google Apps...
betanews.com - 17.05.2008

iGoogles New Gadget-to-Gadget Communication

You can now allow iGoogle gadgets (formerly called Google personalized homepage modules) to talk with each other... if the gadgets are included on the same page, that is. Google calls this their œPubSub� (publish-subscribe) framework for developers, as Google Operating System reports.



For instance, you can create two gadgets, A and B, which you will œbind� to each other using the same name œtest001�. Then, in the user preferences portion of the XML-based gadget, A contains the parameter publish="true�, making it a publisher gadget. And B will contain the parameter listen="true� and the event on_change="updateMessage�, making it a subscriber gadget.




winbeta.org - 31.08.2007

Volume Activation 2.0: Another Potential Vista Gotcha?

Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) isn't the only Microsoft anti-piracy scheme that might raise the hackles of future Vista customers. Volume Activation 2.0 is worrying some Vista testers who've had a chance to dabble with early versions of that technology.

Potential false positives - Microsoft labeling legitimate copies of Windows as "pirated" - akin to those which have been documented in WGA by Windows expert Ed Bott and others, are just one problem business users are anticipating with Volume Activation 2.0. Increased costs resulting from the management of Volume Activation systems is another, they say.

For those who've yet to hear about it, Volume Activation is a new digital-license activation technology aimed at businesses. It's part of the larger "Software Protection Platform" that Microsoft is constructing to combat piracy. In short, Microsoft is not going to allow enterprises to operate on an honor system, when it comes to proving how many copies of Windows they've paid to license. Just like it does with individual Windows users, Microsoft is going to start requiring companies to authenticate their new versions of Windows within 30 days of installing.


neowin.net - 03.10.2006

AOL Previews Silverlight Gadget

AOL is planning the first Windows Vista gadget that takes advantage of Microsoft's new Silverlight cross-platform media player technology: the AOL Social Mail Gadget for Vista provides one-click access to e-mail, AOL Instant Messenger service, photos and video directly from the Windows Vista desktop. The gadget is designed to scan the user's inbox and identify which five people they communicate with most often. The user can add or remove people from his or her "A-list" and with a single click can email or IM people on the list directly from the desktop. Viewing videos and photos without opening a separate application is also possible." We wanted to create a mail experience that's different from what has been done before ," said Roy Ben-Yoseph, AOL's vice president.

The AOL Social Mail Gadget will come with two skins (surfboards and guitars) but is also has the capability of using custom skins. AOL is shooting to have a full-scale beta test within the next couple of months and a release version later in the year, according to Ben-Yoseph.


neowin.net - 18.05.2007

Google Opens Pocket to Gadget Developers

Google has created a site called Google Gadget Ventures. It's a pilot program, with the aim of "bootstrapping an economic ecosystem around gadgets" - according to a press email we received.

The program has two separate monetary offers. The first is an opportunity for already successful Google Gadget developers to get a grant of $5000, to develop their gadgets further. Developers are eligible to apply for this grant if theyve developed a gadget thats in the Google gadgets directory "and gets at least 250,000 weekly page views." Applicants must submit a one-page proposal detailing how they will use the grant to improve their gadget.

The second Google offering is a seed investment of $100,000 "to developers whod like to build a business around the Google gadgets platform." You need to have been a recipient of the $5000 grant to apply. This suggests that the initial $5000 grant is kind of a test, to see what developers can do with a little amount of money - if they impress Google, then they'll possibly get $100k. To apply for the seed funding, applicants must submit a business plan "detailing how you plan to build a viable business around the gadgets platform"...
winbeta.org - 28.06.2007

Apple Adds iPod Max Volume Setting

In an effort to shield itself from possible legal action, Apple announced the availability of a software update Wednesday that can set a maximum volume setting on the iPod. The update is available for fifth generation iPods and the iPod nano. Furthermore, parents could also set a maximum volume setting and lock it...
betanews.com - 29.03.2006

Top-10 gift ideas for the Windows Gadget Geek

Got a Windows Gadget Geek on your shopping list? You can't fail with a gift from this guide to the ten hottest Windows-powered devices gleaned from WindowsForDevices.com 's news throughout 2007. There's something for everyone, at prices from $350 to $20,000, organized from least to most expensive. Enjoy!



Be sure to also check out LinuxDevices.com 's Top-10 gift ideas for the Linux Gadget Geek.




winbeta.org - 10.11.2007

Microsoft Volume Licensing Programs Comparison Chart

Microsoft Volume Licensing offers customized programs that help organizations purchase software licenses. The Volume Licensing Programs Comparison Chart allows you to quickly compare the benefits and requirements of each program so you can find the one best suited to your organization.




winbeta.org - 26.08.2008

Vista sales hit 88 million, up 47% since July

Microsoft Tuesday said sales of Vista have hit 88 million and the company highlighted a number of customer migrations it says signify that users are gearing up to switch to the year-old OS despite recent surveys that say many are taking a cautious approach.



Company officials say the ebb and flow of new contracts and expiring contracts means the overall number of volume licensing copies of Vista doesnt change dramatically from quarter to quarter.



In addition to the 88 million copies of Vista sold, Microsoft said 42 million PCs now have Vista licenses via volume licensing contracts signed by corporate users. Microsoft used the same 42 million number back in July when it discussed Vista uptake at its annual meeting for financial analysts.




winbeta.org - 21.11.2007

Sam's Tip of the Week #4 - Controlling audio in Mac OS X

The real goodies in Mac OS are the ones that aren't obvious. I'll go over some things about adjusting audio in this tip so convenient that you will end up wondering how you lived without them.

All of these tips only work in Leopard or later except the last one which requires Snow Leopard. There isn't much to say here, so I'll just run down with a list:

Adjust volume without the 'blip' sound - Hold down the shift key when using the volume buttons on your keyboard. Note that there is a setting in the Sounds preference pane that is permanent.

Adjust volume more granularly - Hold down both the Option and Shift keys while using the volume buttons on the keyboard. Instead of the volume increasing by one "block" on the HUD, each "block" will take 4 key presses to fill or empty, giving you a much finer control.

Quickly open the Sounds preference pane - Press any volume key on the keyboard while holding down the Option key. For Leopard users, this is the most convenient way to change audio sources.

Change volume sources from the menu bar (Snow Leopard only) - Hold down the Option key when clicking the volume icon in the menu bar. This lets you change the audio input and output devices and has a button to go to the Sounds preference pane.

I hope you find this tip useful! To contact me for comments, questions or suggestions, just email me: sam -at- scj -dot- me.

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jcxp.net - 06.09.2009