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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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Market Monitor Online Again

The Staff — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:09:24 +0000

We apologize for the recent downtime of the Market Monitor gadget. We have initiated a patch fix on the server and it’s now working again. We’ll try to keep it running more consistently from now on.

Let us know if you run into any issues. Thanks.

Date & Time 1.2

The Staff — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:01:47 +0000

We’re launching a very large update to this popular gadget and when we say big, we mean it. DST support? You got it. Multiple alarms with date options? Bam. Set alarms with your events, no problem. We even tossed in a snooze button for good measure.

Changes:
• Backend rewritten for efficiency.
• DST Support fully implemented.
• Multiple alarms with date options implemented.
• Alarm flyout redesigned.
• Events now have alarm options.
• Snooze button implemented.
• Analog clock options implemented.
• Font size and color options added.
• Added additional date and time formats.
• Fixed timezone list to correspond to specific zones.
• Added title attributes to labels that cut off.
• Added 24 hour time options.
• Added 5 brighter themes.
• Bell icon highlights when alarm goes off.
• Additional date validation added.
• Event upgrade options now delete the old file upgraded from.

Note: If you have clocks set to non-local timezones, you will need to reset them in the gadget. We corrected the time zone list so that everything is no longer being indexed by timezone offset but by it’s numerical code in Windows.

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As with all of our gadgets, please let us know if you run into any problems or have any questions, concerns, comments, etc. We do appreciate them and read all of the comments.

Facebook Explorer 1.0.6

The Staff — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:31:27 +0000

We promised everyone an update to the Facebook gadget and we finally have one. While we’re not adding any new features to this update, we have redesigned a lot of the code in the hopes that it will fix some of the issues that people are having concerning authentication, friends feed not showing up, and having to login on reboot.

As always, let us know if you run into any problems and we’ll do our best to help out.

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System Control 1.4.1 Update

The Staff — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:54:37 +0000

The latest and greatest System Control update contains an overhaul of the backend code to work with our new utility file and a couple quick adjustments to make the gadget Win 7 compliant as well as hopefully making some of our more international fans happy with a couple new date formats.

Let us know if you run into any issues.

Update: If you downloaded the gadget and confirmations aren’t working, re-download it again, Thanks.

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Official Windows Magazine 1.1 Update

The Staff — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:51:19 +0000

This gadget is fixed now. A couple months ago Windows Vista Magazine changed over to Official Windows Magazine. We didn’t catch the change in time and unfortunately the gadget has suffered for it.

Good news everyone! The gadget has been fixed up, not just a simple change to the links, but a full overhaul of the backend to fix a few of the odd problems that we’ve fixed since we built as well as new logos and a new utility file. Overall, this gadget should be a bit faster and better suited to the sidebar.

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WoW Explorer 1.0.5

The Staff — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:09:45 +0000

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.

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Twitter Explorer 1.0.0

The Staff — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:31:23 +0000

It was only a matter of time until we got around to Twitter. Plus we had a lot of requests for this gadget, so how could we not take a stab at it? The Twitter Explorer gadget is a basic foray into the popular social micro-blogging platform and we hope that it goes over well.

Features:

View recent activity, mentions, and trends
Search Twitter or view trending topics in either a flyout or the browser
Post updates, reply, or retweet posts in a flyout complete with short URL Bit.ly support
Click on a posting user’s name or picture to see their stats and info
2 different full themes (way more than a background change)
4 height sizes, each with a narrow and wide mode
Wide mode shows user pictures as well as names
View the rate limit and any errors in a small but handy flyout

As always, we appreciate any and all feedback, requests, error reports, etc. We will do our best to take everything into consideration for future updates and fixes.

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Facebook Explorer 1.0.4

The Staff — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:44:27 +0000

Since this gadget came out there have been a group of users who have had trouble getting the login code to work on the gadget. After going through everything we could, we released the 1.0.3 version of the gadget to get additional information and here is what we found:

Almost every login code error we received was a 100 – Missing Parameter error. This means that the code isn’t being sent into Facebook either properly or at all. With that in mind, we have a new version of the gadget designed to circumvent the current system to hopefully provide the code straight from the user input to the gadget to Facebook without involving the sidebar API too much.

In laymen terms, we think we fixed it.

Also in this update the Facebook logo on top of the gadget is now clickable and links directly to facebook.com.

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Facebook Explorer 1.0.0

The Staff — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:10:54 +0000

Do you use Facebook to keep in touch with your friends, co-workers, and / or family? Great news! Now you can track your messages on the sidebar. The Facebook Explorer gadget helps you manage incoming messages, friend activities, and even set or clear your status message.

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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.