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Gas Price Windows Vista SideBar gadget – new version is available for download
This post is dedicated to some people in Microsoft and it’s subsidiaries. It begun about year ago, when I developed Gas Price information gadget (do not download it there). Before I started, I sent some personal email to those in MSN, who maintains it’s Auto section. I wait two days and got no response, so wrote this post about HTML scrapping and then I finished the gadget, that uses this technology.
Couple of weeks later, Senior Channel Manager of MSN Marketplace replayed to me. He asked whether I want to convert this gadget to “legal” one by gifting all rights to Microsoft. I asked about my benefits of doing it (my time costs money) and the conversation ended – he even did not responded. I was waiting for “YES” or “NO”, but got only silent.
Year after he mailed me again with warning, that they going to “protect” Auto section in order to prevent unauthorized content grabbing. He asked again about possibility to “legalize” the gadget – I told, that they can do with this gadget whatever they want, so handed it off to MSN team. Nothing happened. No one took care on this.
A month later, I asked again by proposing to allow Windows Vista SideBar referrer too aside with affiliate sites for MSN Auto images, thus the gadget can continue to work and MSN remains protected from other “grabbers”. But he demand to completely remove any reference to MSN from the gadget. The same time I got some proposals of using another data for this very popular gadget and populize other resources instead of very unpopular crappy MSN.
I decided to build new version of the gadget (here you can download) and did it today (my spare time – not work [this is for my manager]). This version even better, then previous one. It contains more information, that updates more frequently. I also includes distance from station and gas stations in Canada. So, this how it looks today
As you can see this one is much better and uses Automotive.com information. So what I have to do? Submit it instead of old one, right? This the response, I got from automatic system upon submission.
“Your item appears to be either missing a valid signature or a valid certificate. You may also want to check the signature to make sure that it includes the date”
Just to make things clear, I signed the code with private signature. They want me to sign it with Trusted Authority. This is very smart request, however I do not want to pay $200-$400 to make their sidebar better! There is neither ROI, nor benefit for me to pay money for something, I’m giving for free to anyone.
Just in case, signing code with certificate, trusted by authority even do not removes regular live gallery end-user warning.
“Unverified submission.
Only install applications from developers you trust. This is a third-party application, and it could access your computer’s files, show you objectionable content, or change its behavior at any time.”
So why me to pay? Only because I want to be nice to Microsoft and replace my old gadget by new one to serve dozen thousands of people, who using Windows Vista with SideBar and my gadget?
NO WAY! I will not submit it there. I will never contribute anything for free to Windows Vista Live Gallery. They want me (and million of other developers) to submit it to Google or Yahoo? I’ll do it! I’ll force my customers to use 3rd party addons and visit 3rd party websites to get the information they want to get without paying anyone. At least their marketing guys know how to make developer not to suffer from his own good wish.
Thank you and good buy! You want to win web? You just impossible to do it.
Download Gas Price gadget for Windows Vista SideBar >> (it signed with personal certificate, so do it for your own risk 
)
P.S. Next week, I have a meeting with Steve Ballmer and I’m going to ask him all those questions. If you have any questions and want me to ask him, please send it to me or leave a comment.
UPD (18-May): Some issues were fixed (zips starting with 0, negative prices, sorting). You can download new version of the gadget from the same url and update your local version. Great thank to all, who reported issues.
May 16th, 2008 · Comments (38)
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January 1st, 2009 at 12:48 am
installed this on 12/22, prices have not updated. how do they refresh? if I go to automotive.com and put in my zip, the prices are different at the same stations that area listed on the gadget
January 1st, 2009 at 12:48 am
its broke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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January 1st, 2009 at 12:48 am
Wondering if you could write code for the actual average, and not just the median. Other than that I changed the font on mine for clarity and wanted to say thanks for a great gadget.
January 1st, 2009 at 12:48 am
Thank you for your work, even though Microsoft doesn’t appreciate it I do, this is one of the most usefull sidebar gadgets out there. I am glad to see that there is a way to fix the problems I was beginning to have with the "MSN" version. I don’t like the red background as much but I’ll make do because it actually displays the prices. Thank you again.
Rob
January 1st, 2009 at 12:48 am
Hello
Gas Gadget 2.o is great
But the fony is difficult to read.
The font for GAs Gadget 1.0 was perfect.
Does Gas Gadget 1.0o longer work.
I cant get it to update
Thx
AFaraldi@kc.rr.com
January 1st, 2009 at 12:48 am
Need Canadian one with Postal Code entry. Live in Quebec and love this gadget but it’s kind of useless for me.
January 1st, 2009 at 12:48 am
Hi, great gadget. I run three of them on my sidebar because of the three areas of Denver I travel. However, the gadgets always move on my sidebar s I am never sure which area I am looking at. Could you add displaying the Zip Code on the Gadget so when multiple instances are run I can tell which area is which without having to check each time?
Thanks for this awesome tool.
Jim
January 1st, 2009 at 12:48 am
I like that you said screw you to microsoft!! The only thing that I wish is that it was as clean as your older one that you used with MSN gas price.. This one looks like the picture has been zoomed in so much that the quality looks crappy.
January 1st, 2009 at 12:48 am
It is good and helpful for user.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Great gadget! Does exactly like it says. Simple, direct, and FAST. Thank you Tamir! I’m sorry about what happened with Microsoft. They don’t know what they’re missing.
I’m glad you’ve kept creating for the community out here.
June 9th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Your English sucks, maybe that’s why you had trouble with Microsoft.
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January 4th, 2010 at 3:05 am
:O So mush Info :O
January 16th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Font on the gadget is too big. When minimized it wraps the last cent digit of price like 2.4 9. The 9 of .49 is wrapped on my gadget bar. Could this be fixed?
February 23rd, 2010 at 11:17 pm
Great finally
March 17th, 2010 at 6:29 am
hey guys, just came here when i did an quick yahoo search. Neat site you have here! Keep it up!
April 21st, 2010 at 7:43 pm
Thanks for the new version. Some suggestions:
Add option to change background colors.
Add option to change Title; i.e, when running multiple copies to get prices for Premium, Plus, Regular, Diesel, it would be helpful if each instance could be labelled with the Grade it is reporting on.
June 25th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
can you include E85 as a selection?
May 8th, 2011 at 9:19 am
Thanks for the gadget Tamir.
“Font on the gadget is too big. When minimized it wraps the last cent digit of price like 2.4 9. The 9 of .49 is wrapped on my gadget bar.”
To fix the font in windows 7 go to:
C:\Users\Your_Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\GasPrices.gadget\css\docked.css
Change the 25px to 23px or smaller here:
#content img
{
height:25px;
vertical-align:bottom;
}
To look like this:
#content img
{
height:23px;
vertical-align:bottom;
}
Save and close. Then close the gadget and start it again. Expand it and reduce it again. All done. Adjust the size of the font to your liking.
AppData is a hidden folder, so you have to choose Show hidden files and folders in Control Panel > Folder Options > View.
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February 19th, 2013 at 12:47 pm
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May 6th, 2013 at 11:18 am
Same problem as “Pego”, #37. Gadget had stopped working months ago. Was hoping for it to resurrect, but no such luck. I love(d) this gadget. Any information, please?