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The Best Vista Sidebar Gadgets
Friday 4th May, 2007 09:34 Comments: 0
I had hoped to give a nice list of interesting gadgets, but the majority of the ones on Microsoft's Windows Live Gallery are crap. They're either calculators, clocks, system resource monitors or weather related. Whenever I need a calculator I use the one in Vista (calc.exe). When I need to know the time, I look in the bottom right corner (or my watch), and I can click once to see the date and a pretty clock. I can use Task Manager (or Process Explorer) to see CPU usage. I can look outside to see what the weather's like.

But once you get past all the crap (and the buggy, memory leaking gadgets) you end up with this little list (I haven't actually used all of them yet):

UK Radio Player
Sorry, but I had to. It rocks.

Daily Dilbert
I'm still not sure it's worth so much space on the Sidebar for something that only updates daily, but it's Dilbert and it's different.

BBC News 24 Video Feeds
BBC News are well respected, and rightly so. Great if you're not near a TV and want to know what's going on (although I subscribe to their RSS feeds anyway).

PHP Function Finder
Useful for anyone that writes PHP. Not incredibly pretty though.

Royal Mail Postage Calculator
I'm crap at posting things, but other people may find this useful.

And that's basically it. Sorry. I wish there were more.
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