Windows Live Calendar Gadget

The new version is here! (Sun, December 4, 2011)

Still the beta version as I've received so many new suggestions and comments from you, which appreciate so much! Thank you!

As the checking for the new versions stopped working in the last version of the gadget, please tell your friends the new version is out!

Instalation

You can install the gadget in standard way. If you experience some problems while runnning the gadget, please try to restart the system (or the sidebar.exe process at least)

Improvements

http calendars from calendar.live.com switched to https
Fixed loading of empty settings dialog
Series of bugs fixed

TIP 1
Thanks to the support of regular events you can display in the gadget calendars with weather forecast or time schedule of your colleagues. To get a calendar in ICAL format with weather forecast you can use the wunderground.com service. Than just add the link in your gadget according to this example: http://ical.wunderground.com/auto/ical/global/stations/11032.ics?units=metric&reg

TIP 2
You can find in the Downloads section a Midnight theme without week numbers

Project Description
Windows Live Calendar Gadget will be a calendar desktop gadget primary developed for Windows 7. The purpose will be to display (only) events from public calendars on calendar.live.com but it would be capable to read any *.ics file.

Features

compatible with iCal format (*.ics files) - tested on Windows Live Calendar and Google Calendar
fully skinable - includes the Aero skin which changes its base color according to your actual Aero color
multilingual support - currently available English, German, Czech and Slovak translations (in Czech version displays name days)
highlighting of long-continuing events

Requirements: