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Google Video now more usable

Google Video has gone through many transformations through the years. Even the concept behind the service has gone through several transformations as they try and find their own spot on the web where they can thrive. The very first iteration of Google Video ironically had nothing...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Video, YouTube Inc., Video, Sidebar, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-04-18

Thoosje Vista Sidebar (zip)

Our Vista sidebar for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista has gadgets like media players, Sticky's,Calculators,google search, yahoo search, and lots of more search engines. It has also vista sidebar gadgets like weather and system uptime and lots of more useful gadgets. The sidebar uses 50% less RAM and is faster...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Gadget, Thoosje Vista Sidebar, Sidebar, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Software downloads 2007-10-31

All gadgets (How do I... Add and customize sidebar gadgets in Microsoft Windows Vista?)

All gadgets (How do I... Add and customize sidebar gadgets in Microsoft Windows Vista?)good overview but...I wanted to point out a couple features the reveiwer seems to have missed, or chose not to highlight:- You don't have to drill all the way down to the control panel applet to access...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), RSS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Sidebar, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2007-09-21

Google Desktop version 5 released

Google just announced their latest and greatest version of Google Desktop. The new release gives users a better sidebar, a preview "plusbox" in search results and better security. The Gadget directory was given a major facelift too -- it looks very apple-ish with the reflective gadget previews. "The...

Tags: Google Desktop

Blog posts 2007-03-06

Bluto XT (Light) (zip)

Bluto is the fastest browser in the world with unique features. The Bookmark Panels at the top of each browser are equivalent to the Favorites list in common browsers. The sidebar has tons of information. The idea behind Bluto is to maximize speed, visibility, and efficiency, while minimizing tools that...

Tags: Web Browser, Bluto, Sidebar, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2006-10-23

Bluto XT (zip)

Bluto is the fastest browser in the world with unique features. The Bookmark Panels at the top of each browser are equivalent to the Favorites list in common browsers. The sidebar has tons of information. The idea behind Bluto is to maximize speed, visibility, and efficiency, while minimizing tools that...

Tags: Web Browser, Bluto, Sidebar, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2006-09-26

Google's new desktop search

Desktop 3's Sidebar can be dragged aroundGoogle users can now drag Sidebar modules anywhere on their screen. CNET News.com's Elinor Mills describes that and other new features of Google Desktop 3.

Tags: Google Inc., Sidebar

Videos 2006-02-09

Week in pictures: Photo chop, Vista

Week in pictures: Photo chop, VistaSidebar's "gadgets" are similar in concept to Microsoft's Active DesktopEnough with the comparisons to Dashboard and Konfabulator. Microsoft's gadgets are a rehash of Active Desktop components, which were introduced back in 1997 with IE4.

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, photograph, Sidebar, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-02-03

Gates shows off Vista in CES keynote

Gates shows off Vista in CES keynoteIt's not made in USTo tell you the truth dudes, a majority part of Windows vista is developeed in China and India. In fact, other microsoft softwares are also outsourced to these two countries: Visual Studio, Exchange server, MSN, to name a few....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, Desktops, Sidebar, video, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-01-04

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo begin war on features

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo begin war on featuresYahoo! is! even! a! competitor? NTno textM$N is an internet GIANT?I wonder just what KIND of ant a GI-ant is? ;)Deja vuDidn't we already have "portal wars" back in like 1998?? Yahoo, Go/Infoseek, Excite, et al? It seems personalized portal pages...

Tags: Portals, M$N, sidebar, Now-What, Google Inc., Europian patent, Neomedia Technologies,NEOM.com, Internet, Europian, Internet navigation, Microsoft Corp., NeoMedia, specificaly, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-11-07

Build 5219 (aka Sept CTP) missing PDC-demoed "mashup mojo"

Build 5219 aka Sept CTP missing PDC-demoed "mashup mojo"Active Desktop 2.0The sidebar is essentially Active Deskop 2.0 -- on the side of your screen instead of on the desktop under all your windows. The main enhancement is that "gadgets" can be written with Windows Presentation Framework, so they will...

Tags: sidebar, Active Desktop, PDC-demoed, Build 5219, Sept CTP, mashup

Discussion threads 2005-09-15

The Trojan resume: MyDoom authors encode job plea

The Trojan resume: MyDoom authors encode job pleaOoops ...OK, that's not good, now every virus writer is going to be little ticked and try to prove that virus writers ARE geniuses ... I think I might just disconnect for a few months until this blows over ... way to go...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, virus, sidebar, talkback, job, MyDoom virus, trojan horse

Discussion threads 2004-09-10

Additional Resources

Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it so

Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it soPar for the course wrt anti-Vista bashers.They believe that repeating something ad nauseum will somehow make it true.Journalism or Rant?I'm afraid you've followed suit rather than taking the high road on this issue. By even responding to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, workstation, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Optin Buddy (exe)

Optin Buddy lets you personalize your sales letter and address your prospects by name. Add images, videos, audios, or anything else that can be possibly be placed on a website as a thank you message after opt in. Save your optin code as as Wordpress Plugin or Wordpress sidebar widget....

Tags: Wordpress, Henry Zeng, Sales Strategy, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Sales, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2008-07-16

MiniBrowser (gadget)

Web browser for the Windows Vista Sidebar. Use it to monitor a specific area of a Web page from the Sidebar while you work on other applications. Ideal for network monitoring, news headlines, Web cams, Web radio, video playlists, and Web TV. This version is the first release on CNET...

Tags: Web, Video, Eduardo Mancero, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2008-07-08

MobileMe officially launching on 09 July

Apple is planning to launch its MobileMe service on Wednesday 09 July 2008 between 6pm and 12am PT (9pm and 3am ET) according to a post in the Support area of the left sidebar of .Mac, once you've logged in: MobileMe Launch 7/9/2008, 6pm-12am PT ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-07

The Steve Jobs Premium

This is a sidebar to The Steve Jobs Standard. It was about the simplest shopping list one could imagine: an audio cable to connect my iPod to the Bose stereo in the family room. My search on the online Apple Store yielded only...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-30

All-In-One Sidebar (xpi)

All-in-One Sidebar is a sidebar control, inspired by Opera's. It lets you quickly switch between sidebars, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source code or websites in the sidebar. It includes a slide-out button and a toolbar, all of which can be...

Tags: All-in-One, Ingo Wennemaring, All-In-One Sidebar, Web Site Development, Web Browsers, Construction, Internet

Software downloads 2008-06-17

Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn's plan goes kaput as Microsoft talks end

Yahoo is reportedly near a search deal with Google and plans an unrelated reorganization. Meanwhile, Microsoft says it's no longer interested in Yahoo. Add it up and billionaire investor Carl Icahn's grand plan to cash in on Yahoo just went kaput. First, the news. News.com's Stephen Shankland...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Search, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Construction, Search, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Design useful, professional-looking custom Vista gadgets

Sidebar gadgets can bring useful and convenient functionality to the Vista desktop -- especially when you create a custom gadget to meet your own (or your users') specific needs. This chapter from Creating Vista Gadgets: Using HTML, CSS and JavaScript with Examples in RSS, Ajax, ActiveX COM and Silverlight...

Tags: Sams Publishing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Gadget, CSS, AJAX, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, RSS, Middleware, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Web 2.0, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Book chapters 2008-06-12