Windows Vista Sidebar Thingie
When I got my new Vista
laptop the first thing I did was fix all the crap that it ships
with from Dell. That includes removing that virus called Norton
Trial Edition, setting the terrible start menu back to classic view
and turning off the Sidebar. Well, I didn't turn the sidebar off
immediately. I stupidly thought that it would have some sort of
auto-hide feature and would popout of the side of my screen when
the mouse point reached it's extent. I mean, why would you possibly
want to take up valuable screen real-estate 100% of the time?
Anyway, I just re-enabled it out of curiousity and noticed the
Wordpress gadget. That feature I like. Now if only I can figure out
how to get a shortcut to the gadget into my start menu so I can use
this nice little applet on demand. I'll post more here once I
figure that out. I'm sure it's easy but right now I'm already late
for Kate and Bruce's wedding. update: The pictures from Kate and
Bruce's wedding have been uploaded to my Flickr account (see
sidebar for links). And more importantly I have disabled the
Windows Sidebar. The only useful feature was the Wordpress gadget
which quite honestly I could just as easily get to from the Start
menu if it was an app so why bother with running the Sidebar all
day. I have since installed Microsoft's Windows Live Writer beta
along with plugins for Firefox and VisualStudio 2005. It's a
simple app that allows me to create posts offline and synch them to
my wordpress blog when they are ready to publish. The VisualStudio
plugin allows me to select code and blog it right away, with
formatting. And the Firefox plugin lets me blog pages directly
from the browser.