We’ve updated our Windows Gadget – you can download the latest version here.

We’ve had a phenomenal response to the initial version of the Windows Sidebar Gadget, we’re seeing a lot of people from all over the world running searches and applying for jobs – so we’re really pleased that our hard work has been appreciated!

We’re really impressed, also, with the number of different countries that people are looking for jobs in, and we hope that those of you who experience low bandwidth to our servers are finding the response times for this search to be excellent.

As proof of our continued support of this alternative way in which you can access JobServe’s services, we’ve added a couple of new features that we hope will make the gadget easier for you to use.  They mainly centre around the options dialog (screenshot taken from Windows 7 RC running on Virtual PC 2007):

• Added Job Type selection, so you can now specify Permanent/Contract or both.
• Added Job Age selection, so you can narrow down you searches only to jobs that have appeared in the last n days up to 7.
• Added Results Per Page selection – now you can have as few as 5 jobs per page, up to a maximum of 100 jobs per page!  (Note, this limit is imposed at the server-side, so any attempt to increase it, either by editing the .js files or by manually firing the query from the browser will unfortunately fail!).

You’ll also notice a Help icon on the main body of the gadget, this just offers a few pointers on how to search.  Also, we have now introduced auto-update functionality – the next time we update the gadget, you’ll see a little yellow exclamation mark that you can click on, which will contain a link to download the latest version of the gadget.

The final big difference with this version of the gadget, is that it is now digitally signed by authenticode using the signtool.exe utility – and all of our future Windows Gadgets will be, too (therefore be wary of any gadgets that pretend to be JobServe gadgets).  When you install the gadget now you should see ‘JobServe Ltd’ as the publisher:

You can download the new gadget from here.  If you have the previous version installed, it won’t necessarily be overwritten – simply remove the old gadget from your sidebar/desktop, and then uninstall it from the Gadget gallery.

Notes to anybody who downloaded the gadget from the original article written about this gadget: The download links were changed in the old article to point to the new version at the same time that this article was published.

As always, please direct any of your comments to the feedback email at the bottom of this page!

Happy job hunting!