System Health now available in Spanish

After sorting out a few minor issues the System Health gadget is now available in Spanish!

Click here to download it from the Windows Live Gallery.

Enjoy,

-james

MCE SideShow

Congratulations to the SideShow team for launching the new Windows Media Center gadgets (BETA)!

These gadgets have been in the making for quite a while and appeared as far back as CES 2007.

To sign up to the Beta you need to visit Microsoft Connect here to activate your copy. However (as Darryl informs me) this link can only be used once per person, to re-download you must go directly to Microsoft Connect and find the Beta through there.

It is great to be able to control my Media Center from my SideShow devices. So long Windows Media Player gadget!

So, what do you get?

• Browse the TV Guide and schedule recordings
  
• Browse movies + pictures library
  
• Control what is currently playing and view information
  
• Browse your music library
  

More information can be found on the SideShow blog!

Enjoy,

-james

Gadgets Galore! (Part 2)

Hello again,

Following up with the release of our AccuWeather gadget yesterday, today we're also announcing the System Health gadget!

This gadget definitely falls under the "geeky tools" umbrella and is a great way to check on your PCs health while not actually at the PC.

You can view:

• CPU/Memory usage
  
• Process list
  
• System uptime
  
• Disk space for local drives
  
• Windows Vista Experience Index
  

Also you can lock, log off, restart, sleep and shut down the PC remotely!

The gadget is on the gallery now and as with all our gadgets it is available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese and Korean!

As I mentioned in the previous post, the gadget will default to your current locale but I will follow up with a future post on how you can switch your gadget to a different locale!

Have fun!

-james

Update: Spanish translation now available

Gadgets Galore! (Part 1)

Hi everybody,

Over the last few days we've launched 2 brand new gadgets to the gallery. This brings our total to 3 (with Windows Live Messenger last week) and we're really excited with the progress we've been making.

AccuWeather

This gadget will display on your device the weather for any location in the world! We partnered with AccuWeather to ensure that we can get the best available weather data and are really pleased with the results.

You can:

• Use the Control Panel to add cities to watch
  
• View basic current conditions on the glance screen
  
• View Tonight/Tomorrow/5-day full forecasts
  
• Open your PC web browser from the gadget to the forecast for your cities
  
• Change between Celcius and Fahrenheit
  

This gadget is available now and as usual, this gadget is supplied in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese and Korean!

By default the gadget will apply the most appropriate language for your locale (e.g. if you're running a German copy of Vista the gadget will run in German) but I will be following up with a future post on how you can switch your installation into a different language.

Stay tuned for more info on the System Health gadget.

-james