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.

Yesterday our server ran into a small problem and we’ve since rectified most of the issues. For the interim, we’re taking the Market Monitor down for maintenance and upgrades.

We apologize for the gap in service and should have a better, more stable model of this gadget ready to go sometime soon. Thank you for your patience.

Update: The gadget is temporarily down again. We are working to fix the problem and hope to have it back up this week. Sorry for any inconvenience.

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.

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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.

Another version of Market Monitor? You had better believe it! This one is packed with lots of minor upgrades ranging from interface and stability improvements to overall usability of the gadget. One notable upgrade to this gadget gives you the ability to add a nickname for an item in your watch list right in the Manage Watch Lists flyout! All you have to do is click on pencil icon, type in whatever you want in the text box, click the ‘Done’ button, and the gadget automatically saves the information!

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If you run into any issues or have any suggestions for future upgrades make sure to let us know. Enjoy!

It’s been quite a while since we built the 1.0 version of this gadget. We’ve learned a lot in the past year or two. For instance: If you build an alarm clock, make sure the shutoff button works. Good news everyone! We have a button that works now and a brand spanking new rewrite to boot.

We’re not kidding, we rewrote the entire gadget to update it and add in more features for people to use.

Features:

• Multiple clocks system configurable from the settings panel.
• Alarm clock works, custom sound can be configured from the settings panel.
• Calendar almost completely redesigned, more event options.
• New event options: Color and date re-occurrence.
• Day and month event sort for calendars.
• Ability to add holidays from an external site list.
• Better event checking for the days with events.
• Dynamic theme system allowing for multiple clocks set in different formats.

We realize there’s a lot more we can do with this project, so the odds are good that we’ll be revisiting it on and off over time. This update not only provided a ton of new options and new look, but laid the foundation to take this gadget even farther.

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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.