We just launched a new Oil Price Monitor gadget for all you curious people out there. Now you can watch the rise and fall of the crude oil price on the sidebar.
If you like this gadget, let us know. If you run into any issues, also let us know and provide any details you can about the problem.
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Another quick project we’ve been working on is the MCR gadget. This handy little gadget tracks and allows you to submit codes for your MyCokeRewards points. Very easy to use and colorful to boot.
If you like this gadget, let us know. If you run into any issues, also let us know and provide any details you can about the problem.
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We’ve been working on some new stuff lately and one of the new projects is System Monitor, a customizable set of monitors packed into a single gadget that allows you to get a heads up display of what’s going on in your computer. There are even some networking tools in a secondary tab. The gadget is a little simple at this point, but the interface is different than most of the other monitors out there and we are looking at ideas and feedback for improvement.
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If you like this gadget, let us know. If you run into any issues, also let us know and provide any details you can about the problem.
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We’ve been making some changes to this gadget since its debut. Now, it is still a little ways off from being perfect, but this update includes a re-write of the linking code and introduces enhanced content pages.
Aside from that, the data file is now safely in the AppData / Local folder and should be pretty easy to access from the gadget. Our other gadgets will follow soon with updates to move their files over as well.
Enhanced Pages For…
Enjoy! And please let us know if you run into any issues or have any suggestions!
(Minor Note: We are planning on adding in Daily Motion as a site, just need to figure out the best way to add it in.)
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We have been making a lot of changes in the backend programming of our gadgets to figure stuff out like how to make the data more accessible, how to get the sidebar to not lock up, and how to get the gadgets to work in UAC lockdown. Additionally though we put a data folder into the documents folder for each user of our gadgets.
This folder is harmless though it doesn’t go away if the gadget is active because we are storing data in there as you use the gadget. The data is in an XML format and can be read plainly so you know we’re not hiding anything illicit in there.
It has since been brought to our attention that putting the folder in the Documents folder would be considered unacceptable to some people, so we figured we would ask you all where it should go. Keep in mind that the really big guiding idea here is that the data must be easily accessible. That’s why we took it out of the gadget folder to begin with. Easy data access allows for backups, recovery, deleting, and grabbing debug information that some users may need to get.
To that end, we have a poll up, please let us know what you are all comfortable with. Thanks. 
Edit: It looks like the AppData directory has won. So from now on, the plan is to have all of our external gadget data in the AppData/Local/BuildAGadget Content directory. Thanks for voting everyone!
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