It’s long overdue, but the Windows Live Gallery has had a makeover! There’s new and all-encompassing front end, that includes all the goodies you can get on the site - not just Vista Gadgets. Lots of the little niggles I had with it (especially when surfing using Firefox) also seem to have been sorted!
So… If […]

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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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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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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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