As reported by Stefan Stranger, Microsoft are running an interesting webcast on April 18th at 2pm EST (that’s 9am GMT for me). It’ll run for about an hour and a half, and cover building gadgets using HTML and JavaScript, using ASP.NET AJAX for gadget service calls, and taking gadgets beyond basic technologies with things like […]

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AOL are inviting everybody to test out a brand new Vista Sidebar Gadget: the AOL Search Gadget.
The AOL Search Gadget allows you to easily search the web from your desktop sidebar, and shows current Hot Searches - providing you with one click access to what’s hot on AOL. With Hot Searches, you can easily see […]

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Vista Sidebar Gadgets are wonderful, aren’t they? You can do just about everything with a gadget - from checking your Googlemail, to letting you know that your website is down, and even helping you post to your blog.
But all that’s a bit boring, right? Sometimes I think we all need to just switch our brains […]

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Thanks to Kris Abel for the heads-up on these releases.
TD Waterhouse have released their Canada Marketwatch Gadget. This can retrieve and display major North American market indices and stocks, allowing you to focus on the stocks you’re interested in and use it to quickly access TD’s WebBroker service.
Workopolis’ Job Gadget offers continuous results from […]

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You’ve got to love the Wordpress blogging platform. Whether installed on your own server, or hosted with theirs, it just kicks butt over everything else on the market.
I’ve been running it on numerous personal sites for about a year now, and I’ve also used it as the basis of several client sites too - and […]

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I think I’ve covered this topic quite well in my Gadget Information section, but for those of you who’ve missed it (or ignored it) here’s a very brief overview of Vista Sidebar Gadget technology.

Sidebar gadgets are little HTML applications. They use a combination of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and supporting media (primarily images) packaged in a […]

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Stanford’s Folding@Home project makes use of a distributed computing model to simulate problems that are thousands to millions of times more complex than previously tackled.
What this basically means is that people from all around the world download and run software that links their home computers together, making one of the largest virtual supercomputers in the […]

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Following the successful release of his Code Converter widget onto the Yahoo and Google platforms, Todd Anglin has ported the code into a Vista Gadget - and very nice it looks too!
Code Converter parses either C# or VB (both in .NET flavours) and converts it to the other. It does this by making use of […]

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