Yesterday was just unlucky. Not only did a server crash at work, but the How-To Geek Vista gadget just stopped working. After learning how to debug sidebar gadgets (more on that later) I finally found the problem: Our gadget had been blocked by Feedburner.

I followed up with them and they confirmed that they had blocked our gadget for excessively hitting their servers. Crap!

So… I’ve modified the gadget to use the How-To Geek feed directly from this site instead of from Feedburner, and I’m releasing version 1.1 for everybody.

At least this time we won’t end up getting blocked…

Download How-To Geek Vista Sidebar Gadget version 1.1

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