It was only a matter of time before developers realised that they could leverage the Vista Sidebar platform as a base for a substantial social network. Well that’s exactly what one enterprising coder has done with the release of his VistaShout Gadget. The gadget sits quietly in the sidebar, and expands to offer a familiar […]

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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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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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The great God that is Google rolled out a beta version 5 of its Desktop product, including updates to the desktop search, sidebar and Google Gadgets - and I think I’m probably not the first to note just how similar it suddenly looks to the Vista Sidebar!
In addition to a more polished appearence, other features […]

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Microsoft Hong Kong recently announced a slew of Hong Kong-specific Gadgets for Vista, which provide a fascinating insight into typical Hong Kong Internet tastes.
The range of Microsoft HK’s release also reflects Hong Kong Netizens’ current surfing habits. Traditional Chinese-language site discuss.com.hk currently clocks in at number four on Alexa.com’s Hong Kong-specific list of most-surfed Web […]

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