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Update: Auction Sidebar Tool 2.91

andy@intelligroup.eu — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:12:47 +0100

Update: We had a small hiccup with the build that went on Windows Live Gallery but this has been fixed and re-uploaded. Sorry to anyone that downloaded the non-working version.

Auction Sidebar Tool 2.91 has just been accepted onto Windows Live Gallery and is now available for download. This new release adds a few new features as well as some behind the scenes bug fixes and improvements. New features in this release are as follows:

Integration with the eBay Client Read More...

Update: Auction Sidebar Tool v2.9

andy@intelligroup.eu — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Good news everyone. We finally got finished with Auction Sidebar Tool v2.9 and it has been uploaded to Windows Live Gallery. Primarily, the purpose of the new version was to fix the connection issues everyone's been having. Couple this with the recent fixes I put out on the server and hopefully everyone will be connection issue free now.

Download now or read on for what's new and improved.

We were planning on making the next version a major releaRead More...

Issues affecting Auction Sidebar Tool: Part 2

andy@intelligroup.eu — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:25:57 +0100

On Friday evening I added a fix for Auction Sidebar Tool on the server. Although it's still too early to tell for sure, I successfully ran the gadget all day Saturday with no issues retrieving feedback score, searching or viewing items. Fingers crossed everyone and please let me know if these problems have disappear for you or if they are still as bad as ever.

That all being said, our server is still having issues. We're still working hard to fix these issues, rRead More...

Issues affecting Auction Sidebar Tool

andy@intelligroup.eu — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:56:01 +0100

Last night on the Auction Sidebar Tool support forum, a few users started a thread regarding issues they were having with retrieving feedback scores from eBay. This problem is caused by Auction Sidebar Tool reaching an imposed daily limit on the requests it can make to eBay's Developer APIs. This means you might be lucky enough not to have noticed the issue, depending on the part of the world you live in and the times of day you use Auction Sidebar Tool. How do we know Read More...

Windows Desktop Gadgets security warning

andy@intelligroup.eu — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:34:39 +0100

It's been a while since my last post (almost three months!). I apologize for this, I've been rather busy.

This post is regarding a security issue I discovered when researching methods of displaying third party websites within a frame in the gadget or a flyout window. If you don't already know, Windows Desktop Gadgets are built on Internet Explorer technology. They are actually mini Internet Explorer windows and are subject to the same security settings as Internet ExplRead More...

Update: National Lottery Results v1.23 (and 1.24)

andy@intelligroup.eu — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0100

An update to the National Lottery Results gadget just got accepted onto Windows Live Gallery. This fixes the never-changing "Loading..." message that you might be seeing on all older versions.

Quite recently, Camelot Plc made some rather large changes to the National Lottery website. Read More...

Update: Postage Calculator (UK) and Play.com Search

andy@intelligroup.eu — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0100

A couple of updates sneaked onto Windows Live Gallery over the past few days, but I haven't had time to post an announcement until now. So first things last:

The second of the updates was for Play.com Search, and went live today. Nothing major here folks, Play.com terminated their affiliate proRead More...

Update: Amazon Sidebar Tool 1.053

law@gadgetdev.co.uk — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The Amazon Sidebar Tool has had a small update once again to fix a fairly problematic issue related to purchasing items. It should all be perfect now though. Here's a list of what's changed:

- Fixed purchasing items through the gadget
- Support for mp3s added
- Carts and search results now clear when changing countries

Download from Windows Live Gallery

Update: DiscountCodes.co.uk Gadget

andy@intelligroup.eu — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The owner of discountcodes.co.uk got in touch yesterday to let us know that the gadget wasn't working. Fortunately, he'd already done most of the leg work in finding out the problem.

It turned out that Feedburner, who were hosting the feed that the gadget uses, had moved alRead More...

Sponsor Julie in Race For Life!

andy@intelligroup.eu — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Just a quick announcement. Julie, our website manager and my partner, is running Cancer Research UK's Race For Life in memory of her great Aunt who died last year. Julie has had a hand in some of our gadget designs, and a lot of her input went into gadgets like Auction Sidebar Tool and Amazon Sidebar Tool.

We don't normally ask for donations from our users, but since this is for charity we thought it couldn't hurt :-) If you get a lot of use out of Read More...

What's cooking at IG?

andy@intelligroup.eu — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

We have quite a few prototype/early development stage gadgets here and prioritizing them is a pretty tricky task. Since there are a lot of gadgets out there, we prefer to focus on gadgets that haven't been done yet, or gadgets that we know can be better than similar gadgets we see out there. Covering the first of those two criteria is our MagnifieRead More...

Release: Amazon Sidebar Tool 1.052

andy@intelligroup.eu — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

We've just updated Amazon Sidebar Tool to version 1.052 on Windows Live Gallery. This update fixes a bug that appeared a few versions ago and affected viewing items from the Amazon US and JP sites.

Hopefully, this will be the last of the bugs cropping up for a while but if you do spot anything please let us know in the comments or on the forums.

Download from Windows Live Gallery

XMLSettingsTransform

andy@intelligroup.eu — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

One of the things we spend a lot of time on here is ways to make our lives easier while developing. DropTo->Gadget is just one of the tools we've developed so that we can spend more time actually coding and less time on the annoying, repetitive tasks.

XMLSettingsTransform is anothRead More...

Update: Amazon Sidebar Tool 1.05

andy@intelligroup.eu — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

With the release of Internet Explorer 8 RC1, a new bug appeared in Amazon Sidebar Tool. The issue causes the gadget to render incorrectly, with most of the content being offset by a certain number of pixels. For those of you wondering how a new release of IE could Read More...

Windows 7 and Gadgets

law@gadgetdev.co.uk — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The first thing most users will notice when upgrading to Windows 7 is that the Sidebar is no longer present and has instead be replaced by dockable areas on all edges of the screen. The only downside to this is it means gadget's wont automatically re-sort themselves if one is removed or one changes height which can be annoying. This also meRead More...

Gadget Release - DiscountCodes.co.uk

andy@intelligroup.eu — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Recently, we were contacted by the owner of a popular voucher codes site in the UK. They were interested in having a Windows gadget to display the latest voucher codes from their RSS feeds.

The gadget has been on Windows Live Gallery for about a week now, but I wanted to discuss some of the non-standard featRead More...

Latest news - January

andy@intelligroup.eu — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Hi everyone.

Firstly, I'd like to apologize for the lack of working forums recently. We thought we'd fixed the bug preventing users from logging in, but it turned out there was another bug still preventing some users. This was caused by the component we used to synchronize site and forum logins. The only way around this was to disable the component and have forum logins only.

Due to the forums being out of action, a few critical bugs went unnoticed for Amazon SidRead More...