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OFFICIAL MS SIDESHOW THREAD


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Hey everyone,

MS Sideshow has been leaked to #winbeta on IRC, I can't work the stupid IRC thing, so can someone get it and i'll host. It should only be around 800k ;)

Eveyone post d/l links here.

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You could make tickers for radar, i know Jurai made me a ticker that shows the radar for my area , its 1337 :)

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Originally posted by kairon

You could make tickers for radar, i know Jurai made me a ticker that shows the radar for my area , its 1337 :)

Yeah, I made a ticket with a doppler radar from a local tv station and one from the National Weather Service. Next will be one w/ watches and warnings...

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I tried your method y_notm just to test it, but all i see is the pics of the map, i don't see any other useful information such as the temp. figures and the environment status, or is it because the city for which i want the weather for isn't in america?

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Originally posted by Toxicfume

I tried your method y_notm just to test it, but all i see is the pics of the map, i don't see any other useful information such as the temp. figures and the environment status, or is it because the city for which i want the weather for isn't in america?

There's a better graphic that is normally used for inclusion on websites. You can replace the URL in the above test page by

http://oap.weather.com/fcgi-bin/oap/genera...loc_id=NLXX0002

Replace NLXX0002 (Amsterdam, NL) by the location you want. You can find the code by browsing to your city on weather.com. You should then easily spot it in the URL.

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I am using it with the "Always on Top" set to false. It was taking up too much valuable screen space. I would use autohide but you can't see what going on unless you use the mouse. I wish when you set "Always on Top" to false a ticket would fade in to the foreground when something important happened and then fade away after you clicked on it. Like when NeoWin posted a new aricle that ticket would show up and disappear when you clicked on it.

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Nice to see people are getting this thing all figured out.

But... does a person need Microsoft Outlook for everything to work properly or not?

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Hey just to note something, this leaked version was supposed to be version 1.0.27. Well i used Resource Hacker on it to remove the winbeta branding on the splash image, and also the printed on version they put. The program paints on the version number itself you see.

Its actually version 1.0.0 not 1.0.27. :)

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Originally posted by Yazoo

Yep you go that right. Just another usless toy that will entertain the kiddies for a few hours.

I bet this thing will never see the light of day as a fully released app, just like so many of M$ ****.

It is already seeing the light of day with thousands of MSN 8 beta testers. It will appear in Office.NET, and there will also be a version for 'regular' Windows users.

Let's not jump the gun here on something that wasn't even meant to get public viewings like this.

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Originally posted by lazydesert

damn.

your expectations are way too high for this software. once this app is polished and optimized, i think it will be a really nice application. yes, it has its problems now.. no website.. no support.. bugs.. space.. memory.. ugliness.. and all those things will be worked out in the end (except ugliness cuz MS has a thing against making windows applications that have style. :ermm:)

.uninstalled.

right on bro! Glad to see some reality being expressed in this thread. I look forward to seeing how the millions of MSN 8 subscribers worldwide take to the MSN Dashboard this fall and next year. I have a feeling it will be a real differentiator b/t MSN and the competition.

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i read the doc that goes along with this and its dated 9.14.2001 so this thing is pretty old. im assuming that this had been in development WAY before that doc was published. after reading the entire thing, i have a strong sense that this might be a temp project to do field studies of what people want. so this might not be an actual product.

i would like to add that i suggest that you all read it to understand what im getting from that doc.

i just think that MS made this program just to do marketing research.

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Originally posted by Shifty

i read the doc that goes along with this and its dated 9.14.2001 so this thing is pretty old. im assuming that this had been in development WAY before that doc was published. after reading the entire thing, i have a strong sense that this might be a temp project to do field studies of what people want. so this might not be an actual product.

i would like to add that i suggest that you all read it to understand what im getting from that doc.

i just think that MS made this program just to do marketing research.

yes, it is an old program, if you could call it a program. like I have been saying i think the ideas of this research will be integrated into Longhorn. after all, it has been said that longhorn will include a "services bar," so I guess we will wait and see.

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Originally posted by Trade Wind

It is already seeing the light of day with thousands of MSN 8 beta testers. It will appear in Office.NET, and there will also be a version for 'regular' Windows users.

Let's not jump the gun here on something that wasn't even meant to get public viewings like this.

i had a feeling it would show up in the next version of office. it just seems like an office kinda tool.

the "regular" version will probly have OE integration instead of O2k2

Oh, and it does work without Outlook being open.

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Originally posted by Shifty

i read the doc that goes along with this and its dated 9.14.2001 so this thing is pretty old. im assuming that this had been in development WAY before that doc was published. after reading the entire thing, i have a strong sense that this might be a temp project to do field studies of what people want. so this might not be an actual product.

i would like to add that i suggest that you all read it to understand what im getting from that doc.

i just think that MS made this program just to do marketing research.

that would be why the papers are from Microsoft Research. They don't just randomly choose names for websites and development branches :D

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Originally posted by RobertH

Hey just to note something, this leaked version was supposed to be version 1.0.27. Well i used Resource Hacker on it to remove the winbeta branding on the splash image, and also the printed on version they put. The program paints on the version number itself you see.

Its actually version 1.0.0 not 1.0.27. :)

I spotted this myself, the bitmap133 resource in sideshow.exe has been replaced by the one present in the current version we now have (which has all the winbeta stuff in it), and it's version 1.0.0, NOT the promised 1.0.27 version.... :(

Also, the weather that y_notm kindly knocked up is actually a modified flow.ssh (which can be found in your sideshow dir!).

This file can be used for a variety of displays... the file at present just displays the traffic and bridge data for Puget Sound in WA state.

I used example to show the webcam pictures at a few locations around my area, Nantasket beach, the I93 expressway going into Boston... just for giggles...!

The possibilities are actually quite interesting.

I'm actually looking into the other interesting file in the sideshow dir, the one that phrases the msnbc stuff... lots of stuff going on, got to be a use for it some how!

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I have this very strange feeling that the first real application to take advantage of this will be Office NGO. Like you'll be able to track a document's updates in a corporate environment.

Is it the email component designed to run with Exchange server?

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