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With the release of The Widgets Update, Stack provides some interesting ways to display various data on your desktop.

While other documentation is still being updated in the preparation for rollout, I am going to show how to make a widget, that displays your favorite news feed. In this case, I will embed the blog of Scott Hanselman, famous for his hands-on articles for Windows developers and power users.

The sample is based on the Large Horizontal Left layout. Result will look like this:

Recently, we’ve released Stack WM 2.0, that added permanently visible elements. In this blog post I am going to show you, how I used them to add a grip to my vertical layout, that lets me redistribute space between the bottom and the top zones.