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Crestron Home Automation Adds Windows Sideshow Support

Crestron, the company that makes crazy high-end home automation equipment that lets you turn off your lights by just breathing loudly, just announced Windows Sideshow support. You remember Windows Sideshow, right? The Windows Vista feature that lets you feed Vista's Gadgets onto an external device. Crestron's including this on all Crestron touchpanels and 2-way devices that support dynamic text. Not only does it read data, you can even send control information back to Windows to change a song or turn off your BitTorrent downloads because you're about to play some Xbox Live. More »

6:10 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Jason Chen
2,825 views, 7 comments

Latest by Stride: Specialists in custom install of home automation installation and smart home systems. Custom audio installation including smart home automation and more »

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USB Gadget Display is Like Vista Sideshow, but Supports Windows XP

When is Vista Sideshow not Vista Sideshow? When it does the same thing as Sideshow—display little widgets on an external device—but doesn't use Vista's Gadgets. The USB Gadget Display does look like a little 2-inch LCD display, which shows clocks and various other things like CPU and RAM usage (but mostly clocks) outside of your machine, but it works with Windows XP, something Sideshow can't claim. Though, looking at the quality of these widgets, it might be worth it for you to upgrade to Vista. [Everything USB]

8:00 PM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Jason Chen
6,532 views, 6 comments

Latest by MacMasterShane: is there anymore info on this thing? Everything USB is just another news site, but no one actually lists a more »

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Hands-On With Ricavision's VAVE Universal Vista Sideshow Remote

We've seen Ricavision's Sideshow Remotes before (and even got hands-on with their previous concept SideShow remote), but this is the first time we've fondled the commercial version that's coming next year.

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4:40 PM on Tue Jan 8 2008
By Jason Chen
3,997 views, 12 comments

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Windows Sideshow for Vista Comes to iPhone

If we had to find one way for the iPhone and Windows Vista to interact, it probably would have been via SideShow, Vista's secondary-display technology that gives you a small portable control board that you can tote around. The people at Ikanos Consulting have been fooling around with a SideShow webserver and are creating an iPhone-compatible version (along with DS, Wii, PSP, PS3) to control your PC wherever you have access. It's not available for download yet, but a beta should be coming soon. [Vistasquad - Thanks Matt!]

6:50 PM on Fri Dec 21 2007
By Jason Chen
5,727 views, 10 comments

Latest by baby.better: Neat! I can't wait to download it for my iphone now. [www.myiphonewallpapers.com] more »

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Ricavision VAVE100, Universal SideShow Remote

As a Mac user, the one Windows feature I'm constantly a little jealous of is SideShow. Particularly, I dig devices like this Ricavision VAVE100. At its heart a powerful 20-device, backlit IR universal remote, the VAVE100 also sports a 2.4" screen SideShow compatible screen with Bluetooth connectivity. So you can have all those SideShow gadgets in what may already be your most used handheld device. More »

5:15 PM on Sun Dec 2 2007
By Mark Wilson
4,534 views, 10 comments

Latest by alanw: @JENNYFUR are you writing from 2002 or something? This capability has been available for MCE for at least three years. You more »

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ControlThink's Vista SideShow and Z-Wave Home Theater/Automation Remote

The Vista feature you pretty much forgot about is back: ControlThink's got a new remote control platform for Windows Media Center and other devices called ThinkRemote that leverages Vista's oft-touted-but-rarely used SideShow. That's right, you can get SideShow information and gadgets anywhere in your house since the platform uses the Z-Wave flavor of wireless for communication for home automation tricks like turning lightbulbs on and off. Logitech's big remote was supposed to do this last year, but it failed to, um, work as promised. So is this the first? Maybe. More »

1:30 PM on Tue Sep 11 2007
By Matt Buchanan
3,498 views, 7 comments

Latest by apeguero: Now that's a mans remote, baby! Yeah! Bring it on! more »

Windows SideShow Devices Run $80? Word is, Windows SideShow devices will start at a reasonable 80 bucks. MORE »

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i-mate Shows New SideShow-enabled Portable Display

Just when we thought we had seen all the SideShow news from WinHEC, out comes i-mate with the View 2010. The 14-inch portable display has an XGA touchscreen, and in addition to retrieving info from your Vista PC it can also hook up to a keyboard and mouse letting you check email messages, watch videos and do simple Internet browsing. No word on pricing or availability, though it sounds like a larger version of Ricavision's eChatter. – Louis Ramirez More »

2:00 PM on Fri May 18 2007
By Louis Ramirez
1,776 views, 2 comments

Latest by anshuman: sawweeet.... everytime i read Imate, i spin around in frenzy.. *grabs my imate K-jam and gives it some huggles* more »

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Optimus Mini 3 SideShow Driver Alpha Version

Those of you with the Optimus Mini 3—a.k.a. pretty much the only thing they've ever produced—will be interested in this. Optimus has just released an early alpha version of the Windows SideShow driver. For those unfamiliar with Vista's SideShow feature, hit that link, but basically it's an interface to display Windows Vista Gadgets on an external device. More »

7:30 PM on Thu Apr 5 2007
By Jason Chen
1,846 views, 3 comments

Latest by waytobealoser: I'm really starting to get angry with Optimus. Quite frankly, 3 little screens are not a product, sideshow or not...They more »

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Ricavision Vista Remote with Sideshow

If you're not familiar with Sideshow, it's one of Windows Vista's features that lets you display gadgets and view photos and music on devices connected to the PC. In this case, the RICAVISION remote, which we looked at before uses Bluetooth to pipe Sideshow information from your Vista Media Center onto the display itself. It also works with IR, in case you were wondering. More »

2:00 PM on Wed Mar 21 2007
By Jason Chen
6,857 views, 17 comments

Latest by ScottyBops: PS3(bluetooth)compatibility is a must. I'm sure everyone is tired of using a game remote to show off their HD more »