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 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 Vista Sidebar Gadget Published
My first Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget has been published to gallery.live.com.
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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.
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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 Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0
Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) isnt the only Microsoft anti-piracy scheme that might raise the hackles of future Vista customers. Volume Activation 2.0 is worrying some Vista testers whove had a chance to dabble with early versions of that technology.
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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.
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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.
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9.11.2007 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.
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15.7.2008 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.
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3.9.2009 Windows Vista available on Microsoft Volume Licensing Site!
SA - Software Assurance. No ultimate edition yet!
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15.11.2006 Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0 Technical Guidance
Technical documentation focusing on planning, deployment and operational guidance.
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6.12.2006 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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17.8.2009 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.
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14.7.2008 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).
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26.8.2009 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008Tivo 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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11.12.2007Gadget 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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14.09.2007Indexer 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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11.04.2008Top-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.
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10.11.2007Vista 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.
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27.07.2007Xbox Friends Watch - a Sidebar Gadget using Silverlight
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26.10.2007The 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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24.01.2008WebSlices 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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01.04.2008Beloved 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...
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12.02.2009Beta 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...
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17.05.2008iGoogles 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
PubSub (publish-subscribe)
framework for developers, as
Google
Operating System reports.
For instance, you can create two gadgets, A and B, which you will bind to each other using the
same name test001. 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.
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31.08.2007Windows 7 Volume License and Trial Availability
Gavriella Schuster: 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...
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02.09.2009Google 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"...
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28.06.2007Apple 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...
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29.03.2006Microsoft 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.
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26.08.2008New Google gadget makes you the 'media server'
Google recently launched
what it's calling a media server
gadget, a new Windows-only application designed to send videos and images from a user's computer to any universal plug and play (uPnP) device.
Typical uPnP devices include the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360, and the number of uPnPs available to consumers is
growing dramatically. Google Media Server should auto detect all uPnP devices connected to the computer, so users should only have to install and
briefly configure the gadget before it works on its own.
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27.06.2008Sam'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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06.09.2009Volume 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.
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03.10.2006Turn 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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06.02.2007Finding 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.
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great resources for Certified for Windows Vista devices!
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