What are Gadgets?
Gadgets are a new category of mini-application designed to provide information, useful lookup, or enhance an application or service on your Windows PC or the Web. Examples might include a weather gadget running on your desktop or on your homepage, an RSS Gadget that pulls in your favorite feeds, or an extension of a business application providing just-in-time status on the pulse of your business.
Gadgets come in three flavors:
- Gadgets for Windows Sidebar will run on your desktop or dock into Windows Sidebar, an upcoming feature in Windows Vista alongside other applications.
- Gadgets for Start.com (a.k.a. Web or Server-based Gadgets) provide a fast, customizable homepage with a clean user interface – putting the user in control of more of their online experience.
- Gadgets for Windows SideShow™ (a.k.a. Auxiliary Display Gadgets) allow users to view their information on devices.
Gadgets Included
Mail and contacts
- Voice mail
- GMail Quick Login
- Gmail Gadget
- Outlook gadget
- Outlook Tasks Gadget
- Outlook Appointments Gadget
- Phone Notify
Music, movies, TV
- Twenty Four Clock
- iTunes Accessory
- iTunes
- MC Radio
- Windows Media Gadget
Safety And Security
- Terror Alert 0.0.0.1
- Firewall Profile
Tools and utilities
- (Blister) CPU
- (Blister) HDD
- Alarm Clock
- App Launcher
- App Launcher New features
- Battery
- Battery Monitor
- Battery Vista
- Black Glass CPU Meter
- Calculator
- Calender
- Cpu Meter (Single Core)
- Date
- Digital Clock
- Digital World Clock
- Drive Info
- DriveInfo
- eBook World
- Express Calculator
- Game Server Monitor
- HDD Meter v1.26
- Hindi Radio
- i Weather
- iClock
- Ip Config
- Media Player
- Media Player Shuffle Gadget
- Memory Meter
- Multi Meter (Dual Core)
- Network Activity
- Network Monitor
- OptusNet Quota
- Perfmon Gadget
- Performance Monitor
- Ping Gadget
- Postage Calculator (UK)
- Prayer Times
- Presto's Hard Drive Monitor
- RDP Quicklauncher v1.1
- Recycle Bin
- Remote Desktop Gadget
- Run
- Sattle Traffic
- StopFM Radio
- System Information
- SYSTRAN Translator and Dictionary
- Temperature Converter
- Uptime Gadget
- Vista Calculator
- Windows Firewall Profile
- Windows Vista Countdown
- XBOX MSP Calculator
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