We have a brand new iteration of the WoW Explorer gadget for everyone. Mostly run of the mill fixes and upgrades, but here’s a quick list for all those interested:

• Added WoW-Heroes.com to the search list. Current region and selected realm apply to the search link.
• Renamed WoW Insider to WoW.com. If you run into issues, just re-select your search engine.
• Fixed the realm sorting to allow for capital letters.
• Recompiled the browser flyout so that the resize buttons and functionality are now in the flyout, not in the settings panel.

As always, let us know if you run into any problems or have any questions and we’ll see what we can do.

Download: BuildAGadget.com – Widgipedia.com – Live.com Gallery

We’ve had a lot of chatter concerning the lack of European realm status on this gadget and we felt it was time to get moving on it. Actually, we got a great tip (thanks Bertrand!) that WoW-Europe.com has an XML feed, they just decided to hide it from everyone for some weird reason. You can imagine how much easier that makes everything.

So now if you download the gadget and live in Europe, just head into the settings panel on the gadget and change your region to EU and hit okay. Voila! You can now track most of the realms in the feed.

We say most of the realms because there was a rather large problem getting the Russian Cyrillic characters to save in the profile. Until we can figure out how to get them properly encoded, those playing on Russian realms will have to look elsewhere for status tracking. We apologize for this and hope that we can get this fixed up in the future.

Also, if you run across an entry in the list that says “Alert”, don’t save it, it’s just an indicator for various maintenance activities. If you do save it, when it disappears, you may have to reset the gadget.

Download: BuildAGadget.com – Widgipedia.com – Live.com Gallery

Please let us know if you run into any problems or have any comments. Feel free to reply on the blog, on our forum, or on Twitter.

We’ve had this gadget in development for a little while and thought today was a good day to get it out there. If you play World of Warcraft and use the sidebar, this gadget should come in very handy. It’s a combination search / site viewer with a US realm status checker. It’s small, powerful, easy to use, and comes with a handful of pretty themes.

Download: BuildAGadget.com – Widgipedia.com – Live.com Gallery

Please let us know if you run into any bug or have any suggestions, thoughts, or requests.

P.S.: In case anyone was wondering why we haven’t added the EU realms: WoW Europe discontinued their server feed. Should this gadget prove to be popular, we may go back and see what we can do to add them in.