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Twitter Issues

The Staff — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:37:39 +0000

Twitter has made some changes to their code which is broken our gadget. We are working hard to get an update to you shortly. Thank you for the patience!

Market Watcher Advanced Upgrades Coming

The Staff — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:50:31 +0000

We are working on a significant updated for Market Watcher Advanced. Here are some features we will be including in the new version:

Google Finance Tie-ins
Currency Quotes
Improved reliability
Improved user interface
Old Bugs fixed

Countdown 1.0

The Staff — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:26:58 +0000

We have completed a new gadget that counts down to any event you want. Add some text and set a time and date to watch a countdown major and minor events in your life.

Download Countdown

Facebook Dashboard 1.0.6

The Staff — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:01:59 +0000

This version fixes the login issue.

Download at Google Gallery

As always, if you run into any additional problems, have questions, concerns, etc. Please let us know in the comments and we will do everything we can to address them. Support can be handled either in the comments or via the support ticket form on the site.

Facebook Explorer Update 1.1.2

The Staff — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:47:42 +0000

We have released an update for Facebook Explorer. This fixes the previous connect and login issues with FB 1.1.1. For those using our google chrome facebook extension an update will be available shortly.

Download: BuildAGadget.com – Widgipedia.com

Thank you for your patience.

The Staff — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:11:45 +0000

Hello friends and fans. We have recently undergone changes in our organization. We apologize as this has caused a delay in servicing support requests. We are aware of several problems with gadgets and we are working diligently to fix these problems. We will be releasing updates as solutions are reached. We thank you for your patience and understanding as we go through this transition and look forward to serving you in the future.

Here’s What Happened

The Staff — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:16:16 +0000

We imagine many of you are asking the question “What happened last week?” and rightfully so. Basically, we did a server migration, generally pretty straight forward, but there’s always a few unforeseen problems moving from server to server and we figured that the issues with everything going down were due to a difference of server configuration.

Until we realized that we were under a denial of service attack. Those aren’t quite as easy to fix. We’ve been working with our host to repair the damage and what you see right now is more of a temporary relocation than something permanent, but we’re working on resetting some things and we will try to move the site again at some point soon. After we test everything thoroughly beforehand.

We apologize for the downtime and hope to minimize it in the future. If you have written any support tickets into us and haven’t heard back, it is because we had some problems with the e-mail servers at the same time the site went down. In case everything crashes again, we would like to direct you to our Twitter feed for ongoing updates: http://www.twitter.com/buildagadget.

New Website Design

The Staff — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:13:21 +0000

We’ve been working hard recently and this is one of our larger projects. Why a new design? To make things easier for us to get things updated and launched and to make getting information and support easier for everyone else to obtain.

We’re still making minor tweaks to the site here and there, so please let us know if you find any typos or errors on the site and we’ll work diligently to get them patched up.

Where Oh Where Should Your Data Go?

The Staff — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:28:28 +0000

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!

Shiny New Website

The Staff — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:24:29 +0000

Hey everyone, we just completed work on a new version of the website. It’s still a work in progress in some parts, so we’ll be tweaking many things as we go along. If you spot any typos, please let us know and we’ll correct them asap. Here’s a list of the major changes:

New layout
Redesigned project pages (now standalone pages)
Site search (via Google Custom search)
Redesigned support section
Redesigned contact form
Less version numbers to worry about
Better page usability and larger font sizes
New developer section (still very much under construction)

Overall, we hope this new design helps out some people and that everyone enjoys a new cleaner layout.