Microsoft Dynamics solutions include applications and services for retailers, manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and service companies, doing business domestically or in multiple countries. With these tools in hand, people in every key position in your organization can contribute to the success of your company. Microsoft Dynamics solutions work closely with the Microsoft software systems you may […]

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The UK’s Met Office has launched a range of free widgets providing weather information directly from the desktop. The weather gadgets can be customised to provide local weather information, severe weather warnings, marine warnings and radar images, which update automatically while a user is working on other tasks. Clicking on the information takes the user […]

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If you’re one of the millions of people with a Zune (or even if you’re not) then you’re going to love this… Essentially this gadget works as a media player in the sidebar, but it’s different to all the others in that it looks and behaves just like the Zune.
Just like the Zune you can […]

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vpLStudio has just released a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget that allows you to quickly search for a domain name whois record. The service runs through the excellent DomainTools.

The gadget does the job of a whois lookup perfectly well, but I’d personally like to see more functionality! Perhaps have the domain info open in a flyout […]

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True to his word, Nathan has released an overview that features the best of his Gadget Roundups so far. There’s some great stuff to be had, if you don’t already have it - with a couple of my favourites (and ones I actually use personally) being the Full Moon Gadget (sad I know, but I […]

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Last month, the Vista Team Blog posted an update to the Gadgets Competition running on Code Project.
The competition is now complete, and it resulted in 29 entries - and considering that Code Project was hoping for 20 they’re quite pleased! The source code for the top 10 gadgets has been downloaded by about 159,000 developers. […]

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Blimey! Nathan at the InsideMicrosoft blog is on a roll… Two roundups in two days!
Issue 9 of his regular series includes a mish-mash of the latest gadgets to be released. The SayaTV Gadget is interesting - in that it’s the first to offer live TV from the Sidebar.
I’m also a fan of Garfield, so I […]

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Nathan Weinberg has just posted the eigth of his series of Gadget roundups on the InsideMicrosoft blog. As is typical, there’s details on a random selection of reasonably useful Sidebar goodies.
However, with three of them not working, one with errors, one that crashes your sidebar, and at least one that’s totally pointless (i.e. just pointing […]

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