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Changes coming to Facebook Gadget

The Staff — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:17:11 +0000

Recent changes to the Facebook back end have caused our Facebook gadget to stop working. We are in the process of fixing the problem. When updates are available we will announce them here, on Facebook and Twitter. Thank you for you patience.

Fb Explorer 1.1.1

The Staff — Sat, 22 May 2010 16:37:52 +0000

The latest version of the gadget is a minor update with a dark monochrome theme for anyone who wants a change from the standard blue and white colors.

The new theme option is located in the Gadget Settings -> Options -> Basic panel.

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Oil Price Monitor Version 2.1.1

The Staff — Wed, 19 May 2010 05:51:25 +0000

Recently the OPM gadget stopped working and we decided it was time to do a quick redesign. This new version tracks energy futures for crude oil, RBOB gasoline, heating oil, natural gas, and propane gas. While the interface has changed a bit from the older version, we have tried to compensate as best as we can. So while the manual refresh button is gone, we now have an expanded update option in the settings panel as well as the ability to control which feeds you see.

The gadget interface itself is a little more compact, but full details can be seen by clicking any of the feed entries on the gadget which will trigger a flyout with the data in larger font as well as links to more detailed overviews and graphs.

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Date & Time 1.2.1

The Staff — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:34:44 +0000

This is an emergency update to the Date & Time gadget that fixes the time zone list. A recent Windows update caused a shift in the zone numbers due to updated data.

Make sure you:
• Have all of your Windows updates installed
• Download the latest version of the gadget
• Edit your clocks to set them to their correct time zones

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Blogger Buddy 1.1.0

The Staff — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:06:34 +0000

We did some tweaking to the Blogger Buddy gadget recently, mostly to re-write the code and try to account for the errors people have gotten trying to login and see their blog to post on. The new version is the same interface, but we cleaned some stuff up and made it more compatible with Windows 7.

The 1.1.0 version of the gadget includes better error handling and logging, so we can track down problems people are having and try to determine the best way to fix them. It’s always tricky trying to fix remote problems that we can’t replicate in the lab, so this version should be able to not only help with that, but we also fixed the view links for blogs (no more going to an odd, obscure XML page, yay!), and added in a lot of try catch code to handle individual error cases (hopefully this means that more blogs will show up for people).

As always, let us know if you run into problems and we’ll see what we can do. And before someone suggests it, we did check out tagging for this update, though Blogger’s API was being sporadic on it, so we decided to leave it out for now. We’ll try to revisit it for future updates once the rest of the gadget is more stable.

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Fb Explorer 1.1.0

The Staff — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:17:13 +0000

After a couple weeks of testing and feedback, we’re moving ahead with the release of the 1.1.0 version of Fb Explorer! We hope you enjoy it and do let us know if you run into any iussues or if have any requests for future updates.

Feature List
• New login system using Facebook Connect
• Fixes Friend Activity stream filtering
• Fixes attachment viewing problems
• Fixes the character encoding problems in status posting
• Interface will load now before the data, making the process smoother
• Stream flyout can now add / remove like
• Stream flyout can now add comments
• Background have been redone and should look better in Windows 7
• Additional font (family and size) options added
• 2 extra sizes added for people with higher resolutions
• After posting, stream flyout auto-updates the feed when closed
• Graphics and code re-optimized

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Fb Explorer 1.1.0 Open Beta

The Staff — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:11:32 +0000

We would like to invite anyone stopping by to try out our latest update before it officially hits the internet. This is a pretty major update of the gadget that fixes lots of problems as well as adds in some new features like adding likes and comments to posts in your feed.

We’re looking for any and all feedback on the gadget. If it breaks, tell us how, if it’s working flawlessly, let us know. Go wild, have fun, and post up your experiences.

Beta Test Complete

XM Online Radio For Google 1.4

The Staff — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:29:20 +0000

We have patched in the new links and got the XM Online Radio gadget for Google Sidebar up and running again. Let us know if you run into any issues.

Download XM Online Radio 1.4 (Google Gadget)

XM Online Radio 1.9.1

The Staff — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:27:44 +0000

Today Sirius XM changed all of their player links and broke every 3rd party player in existence. Every. 3rd. Party. Player. We were not happy and neither were quite a few of you who wrote in. We have good news though, the 1.9.1 version of the gadget switches the links and player around and should work for everyone. We currently have the Vista version up and running and the Google version should get fixed pretty soon as well.

As always, let us know if you run into any issues and we’ll do our best to get them resolved. Thanks for everyone’s patience on this.

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Fb Explorer 1.0.7

The Staff — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:02:43 +0000

Facebook recently changed their live stream feed structure and threw the gadget off. This patch corrects the attachment checking in the feed so that everything should be working as normal again.

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