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Stay up to date with Olympic Medal wins with the Olympic Medal Count Gadget

Donavon West, Sidebar Gadget-maestro, is at it again! He just released a brand new Windows Sidebar gadget designed to let users keep track of Olympic Medal wins from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Download: 2008 Beijing Olympics Medal Count Gadget

This is a great gadget for people who aren't following the Olympics very closely but want to keep tabs on Olympic Medal wins. I'm not following the Olympics as closely as I'd like due to several things I'm working on so this Gadget is very helpful in at least keeping me "in the loop".

You can also watch encore videos of the Olympics at NBCOlympics.com thanks to a partnership with MSN Video and are presented in Silverlight. Also: don't forget you can also watch Olympic content directly within Windows Media Center on PCs running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate. I posted about NBC Olympics On The Go a few weeks ago here. I hear TVTonic has released a 64-bit version of NBC Olympics On The Go as well.


Comments

  1. Posted on: August 13, 2008 at 5:43PM

    THX Brandon

  2. Posted on: August 14, 2008 at 4:00AM

    Nice, but unfortunately in the wrong order. IOC standard says it should be ordered by most golden medals, followed by silver and bronce. Not the total.

  3. Posted on: August 14, 2008 at 9:56AM

    Looks Good.Thanx :)

  4. Posted on: August 14, 2008 at 10:43AM

    @Islander - The sort order that this gadget uses is the same as the one used by NBC, Yahoo, Sports Illustrated and many others. It is sorted by total medal count.

    The gadget is accurate, although the sort order my not be to your liking. I'm sorry, but I don't subscribe to "IOC Standards Monthly". magazine :)

  5. Posted on: August 14, 2008 at 12:35PM

    Fine, fine. I've been getting way too much flack over this so I changed the gadget to allow you to sort on either total medals OR gold/silver/bronze (now the default).

    To change the sort order, hover over the small area above the gold or totals column. A "sort by" image will appear. Click on it and the sort order will change. It also saves the sort order so it will be the same the next time the gadget loads.

  6. Posted on: August 14, 2008 at 4:36PM

    FYI LiveGadgets is Donavon West - the creator of the Olympics Medal Gadget.

    Donavon, great to see you in the comments and asnwsering questions! Awesome!

  7. Posted on: August 14, 2008 at 6:24PM

    Extremely nice update, Donovan. Now everyone will be happy! Thanks a lot!

  8. Posted on: August 15, 2008 at 1:38AM

    trackback from: http://archvista.net/973

    thanks.