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One of the really cool features of Bing is the image of the day. Someone at Microsoft has the delightful task of researching and selecting images that serve as the background to your daily web searches. With tips and trivia included for each image, the often stunning photography can brighten up…

Microsoft is launching its first Hohm-enabled gadget courtesy of a partnership with Blue Line Innovations, a Canadian-based company which sells energy monitoring and management devices. Hohm, for those unaware, is a web service designed to help consumers monitor and analyze their energy consumption…

Xobni is doing something interesting with regards to their developer platform: they’re letting developers who create gadgets for Gmail’s new Gadget Platform to port those same gadgets over to Microsoft Outlook. “Deploy Once. Deploy Twice. Nice,” reads the Xobni website where details about the new…

There’s a new sidebar gadget available for fans of the To Do list service “Remember the Milk.” It’s cleverly called the “I Forgot the Milk” gadget. Actually, the gadget itself isn’t brand-new – it’s been out since January – but this latest update is, and frankly, this time it’s a lot more usable. …

I can’t believe I didn’t know this existed! As I blogger, I live in Windows Live Writer almost as much - if not more - than I live in email. So how did I not know that there’s a Windows Sidebar gadget just for Live Writer? Awesome. This is my new must-have for all my Windows machines.   The…

Are you a political junkie? Here in the U.S. it's hard not to be when it's election season. With so much going on - rallies, debates, and economic crises - it seems that the poll numbers change every day. Now you don't have to wait on the news to give you the latest info from the presidential polls…

Sweet! Brandon just posted about the coolest little gadget I’ve seen in a while –the Mars weather gadget for Vista. Thanks to the Phoenix Mars Lander, this gadget displays the maximum and minimum daily temps on Mars as well as the Mars weather. Hint: It’s sunny a lot there. And for even more Mars…

With the release of the Windows SideShow Managed API SDK and the Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Developer Preview, the Windows SideShow Team is encouraging developers to write some great gadgets by partnering up with NVIDIA to sponsor a gadget-writing contest. All finalists will get a trip to…

Ed Bott put up a post about his favorite Vista sidebar gadgets the other day, which I thought was worth sharing. His favs included the clock and the notes gadget (both standard gadgets), as well as iWeather, a tweaked version of the standard weather gadget, Remote Desktop Gadget 2.0, App Launcher…

I just saw this over on the Windows Experience blog: a new baseball-themed gadget for the Vista Sidebar. The Fantasy Baseball Gadget lets you check your Fantasy Baseball news, player stats, and create your own roster, and the categories update every 10 minutes. Brandon points out that the gadget…