Thought Market Monitor 1.0 was good?
Download version 1.1 of the Market Monitor gadget, and see just how much easier watching the stock market can get.

New features include:

• Icon indicates if market is currently open or closed
• Scroll bar on gadget face for the ability to hold more than 10 quotes in each tab
• The ability to sort quotes right on the gadget face, in the ‘Favorites’ tab
• Clear all quotes from gadget
• Clear gadget settings

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

If you have any requests that you would like to see in future versions of this gadget, please tell us what you would like, and we’ll try our best to get it worked in there.

If you have any question/concerns/problems, please let us know and we’ll be happy to assist you! Thanks!

After 1.8 went up with so much fanfare (We’re lying, 1.8 was kind of a terrible release and we apologize deeply), we decided to go over the code for the gadget one more time and came up with version 1.9. We even tested this one. There are a few differences and upgrades, some under the hood, others visible, here’s a list:

Updates:

• The channel list will be downloaded into a local file. This is for speed and stability.
• You can now go to the settings panel to update the channel list
• All functions were looked over, most were deemed worthy, some less so
• Several re-writes were made for stability testing and speed
• Links flyout has been majorly updated to include a help FAQ
• Adsense was added to the bottom of the channel flyout
• Scroll options added for the up and down arrows on the gadget face
• Scroll options: by station number, by original list, or by favorites
• If you have a flyout focus problem, we’ve added an option for you
• Changed “Username:” on login flyout to “E-Mail / Username:”

There are other things we’re still toying around with. Tune select options? Yeah, if we can figure out the least annoying way to implement them. Bouncing the XM data through our server to *hopefully* eliminate stability issues? On the to-do list. Channel listing archiving? Maybe someday. Integrating this with weather, time, date, calendars, and a cute animatronic cat? Probably going to be a different gadget if we ever decide to do that.

If you run into an issue with the gadget, don’t panic. If you can, click the XM logo on top of the gadget and peruse the help menu for instructions. This thing isn’t foolproof yet and the occasional glitch will happen (statistically it’s gotten lower, but it’s not completely gone), instructions for resetting the gadget, restarting the sidebar, they are all in there.

Why would we want to use a gadget that can still glitch up on rare occasion?
Because it’s one of the best, most compact and easy to use XM players out there for free.

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

If you run into any issues that the help menu doesn’t cover, have any ideas, suggestions, etc. Please feel free to send us an e-mail from the site or post on the blog. Enjoy!

P.S.: Special thanks to Eric Putnam for helping us catch lots of errors and typos.

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.

After several days in open beta, we’re proud to present the initial release of Quick Launch for the Vista Sidebar! This gadget lets a user drag and drop all kinds of shortcuts, files, folders, and well, just about anything on your computer and launch them straight from the sidebar. It’s easy to customize, easy to manage, and fairly stable so far. Enjoy!

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

As with all new launches, if you find any bugs or problems or just have some suggestions, please feel free to let us know either on the blog or by e-mail.