June 25, 2008
Microsoft Dynamics solutions include applications and services for retailers, manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and service companies, doing business domestically or in multiple countries. With these tools in hand, people in every key position in your organization can contribute to the success of your company. Microsoft Dynamics solutions work closely with the Microsoft software systems you may already use, allowing you to generate more value from your investment in technology.
Microsoft Dynamics enhances all lines of business in your organization and delivers exceptional benefits in three critical areas:
• Financial management: Microsoft Dynamics solutions help you maintain control of your finances and manage them with a high level of efficiency. You can make complete, current financial information and reports available to anybody who needs it to perform business planning. Simplify and automate routine and repetitious functions, so your employees can focus on more critical tasks. Use Microsoft Dynamics to create the required financial and other reporting needed to realize flawless regulatory compliance.
• Customer relationship management (CRM): Microsoft Dynamics CRM and other customer relationship management tools help you maintain close contact with your customers and prospects, and manage sales and marketing initiatives and track their results. Microsoft Dynamics can also assist you in identifying emerging customer needs early and respond to them before the competitors do.
• Supply chain management: With Microsoft Dynamics, you can connect your entire supply chain in a productive, fast-moving flow. Assess the business value of your vendor and business partner relationships to make sure they suit your objectives. Offer sophisticated communicative, collaborative, and self-service capabilities to make it easy and compelling for other companies to do business with you. Increase efficiencies in distribution to improve customer satisfaction and reduce the cost of doing business.
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November 30, 2007
The UK’s Met Office has launched a range of free widgets providing weather information directly from the desktop. The weather gadgets can be customised to provide local weather information, severe weather warnings, marine warnings and radar images, which update automatically while a user is working on other tasks. Clicking on the information takes the user to the Met Office website.
The applications are available on PCs running either the Windows Vista operating system, or using a Firefox web browser.
The widgets are accessed on Vista via the operating system’s side panel. The weather for a specified location is displayed, together with information such as radar or satellite images. On Firefox the information is displayed in a sidebar, and this can be expanded to include any of the available options.
The Met Office has issued the widgets as part of its remit to provide forecasts, and severe weather warnings, to enable UK citizens to make informed decisions in order to protect life, welfare and property.
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May 16, 2007
If you’re one of the millions of people with a Zune (or even if you’re not) then you’re going to love this… Essentially this gadget works as a media player in the sidebar, but it’s different to all the others in that it looks and behaves just like the Zune.
Just like the Zune you can browse through songs and albums, all the buttons on the gadget work as they would on the real thing. It will also utilise any album art you have already set up in Windows Media Player, which is rather smart.
The gadget offers a decent set of options too. You can change the background of the gadget, the colour of the Zune (restricted to three colours at the moment - and no pink for the ladies). You can also change the reaction time for the hover-over scroll wheels, and list all the keybord shortcuts too.
I think this is a fantastic release personally! Even if you don’t have a Zune, this gadget offers a comprehensive and solid media playback option for the Vista sidebar - so go and grab it now!
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May 15, 2007
vpLStudio has just released a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget that allows you to quickly search for a domain name whois record. The service runs through the excellent DomainTools.
The gadget does the job of a whois lookup perfectly well, but I’d personally like to see more functionality! Perhaps have the domain info open in a flyout window, rather than loading a browser window. If a flyout isn’t possible, then I’d at least like to see the gadget making use of some more of the DomainTools feature set - all from a single micro-interface.
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May 4, 2007
True to his word, Nathan has released an overview that features the best of his Gadget Roundups so far. There’s some great stuff to be had, if you don’t already have it - with a couple of my favourites (and ones I actually use personally) being the Full Moon Gadget (sad I know, but I actually like to know what phase of the moon we’re in) and the Task Reminder Gadget (I have really poor short-term memory).
I think Nathan deserves a big round of applause for his hard work and persistence with the series of articles, and I look forward to his future roundups! Good luck with finding something to buy with that Dell voucher mate! 
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April 28, 2007
Last month, the Vista Team Blog posted an update to the Gadgets Competition running on Code Project.
The competition is now complete, and it resulted in 29 entries - and considering that Code Project was hoping for 20 they’re quite pleased! The source code for the top 10 gadgets has been downloaded by about 159,000 developers. Here’s the winners:
Soapbox Videogadget
This is quite an addictive litte gadget that pull some of the best RSS feeds from the Soapbox on MSN Video Beta page, including “Most Popular Videos”, “Most Rated videos”, and “Most Recent Videos”.
The idea behind this gadget is to use those regularly updated feeds to show your choice of video from the sidebar. It functions in a similar manner to Daily Dilbert - probably because they were written by the same guy!
.NET Interop for Gadgets
While there is a gadget for download, this is far more about a programming technique for other gadget developers.
The developer uses the building of a Gmail Checker Gadget to illustrate the building of an interop layer between gadgets and .NET so you can run any .NET code from your sidebar gadget.
Mobilis Immobile (honourable mention)
This is a Google Virtual Earth slide show Gadget, and it allows you to view cool places in several sizes, along with information about what you’re seeing. You can even set it up to point to custom locations.
Travel the world without moving from the front of your screen! Not really useful as such, but still fascinating!
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April 26, 2007
It’s long overdue, but the Windows Live Gallery has had a makeover! There’s new and all-encompassing front end, that includes all the goodies you can get on the site - not just Vista Gadgets. Lots of the little niggles I had with it (especially when surfing using Firefox) also seem to have been sorted!
So… If you’ve been put off browsing the site in the past - then it’s definitely worth checking out again.
Oh, and thanks to Law for the heads-up on this one!
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April 24, 2007
I’m going to have some free time coming up next month, after I’ve finished the pre-launch promotions for the Britster project, and I’d like to spend it developing some new gadgets!
So… I’m looking for ideas. Is there a gadget that you desparately want to see exist, or perhaps you’ve seen a good gadget that would be great with just a few tweaks?
Tell me your idea, and if I decided to make it then not only will your idea be made real, but you’ll get mentioned (and linked to) in the credits!
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