Gadgets, one of my favorite Vista features, allow you to customize your Sidebar and desktop with anything from search boxes to a variety of system tools and games.  Microsoft Gadgets, much like Apple’s Dashboard widgets, can be developed …

Thanks to our tipster down-under Beau, here’s a peek at the new look for ninemsn.com.au, the MSN/PBL joint venture and one of the most popular websites in Australia (thanks to it being the default home page for Windows computers …

While the news on Writer has been pretty quiet recently, here’s two items that caught our attention.

The German Live Writer community got a look at one of the internal Live writer builds and kindly shared what they saw. Though the …

As part of the changes going on at MSN, a new addtion to the weather portal is promoting Windows Vista’s new 3D-tab experience.

Over at the weather maps page, this Windows Vista advertising graphic is on the right hand side of …

For those of you running Windows Vista, a new sidebar gadget is soon to be released that displays Live Maps traffic data on your desktop. Featuring the standard Maps features such as panning and zooming, this is a must-have if …

Following on from our post last week regarding the MSN revamp project known as “The January Effect“, the first results from that are beginning to show. MSN Music and the other MSN Entertainment pages have been silently upgraded to …

Brian Kramp today announced the availablitiy of the Windows Live ID SDKs in its alpha version. The Windows Live ID SDK basically means that you can add the security and ease of Windows Live into your own applications. If you …