Our Top 10 Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets

The choice of gadgets to use in the sidebar is entirely down to personal preference, so you'll need to determine your own set. However, just to give you some ideas, here are our top 10 favorite Vista sidebar gadgets (in no particular order).

Panda Gadget

Shows the Panda gadget.

The Panda Gadget shows a live feed from the Giant Panda Research Station in the San Diego Zoo. The gadget's settings view allows the user send an email postcard with the current camera view.

Piano

Shows the Piano gadget.

You can use your mouse or keyboard to play this piano. Use the A,S,D,F,G,H,J keys to play with your keyboard, and hold down SHIFT or SPACE to play an octave lower.

National Geographic Photo Of the Day

Shows the National Geographic Photo Of the Day gadget.

This gadget displays National Geographic's Photo of the Day.

Super Search Bar

Shows the Super Search Bar gadget.

The Super Search Bar allows you to search 6 different search engines from your sidebar. Search engines included Google, YouTube, Yahoo, Live, Wikipedia and eBay.

Slide Show

Shows the Slide Show gadget.

This gadget displays a slide show of pictures from your computer, plus optionally pictures from web sites you've visited.

CPU Meter

Shows the CPU Meter gadget.

This gadget displays dials showing your current CPU and memory usage.If you have a dual-core processor, you may prefer to use Multi-Meter, which shows separate data for each core.

App Launcher

Shows the App Launcher gadget.

This gadget allows you to quickly and easily launch your favorite applications.

Clipboard Manager

Shows the Clipboard Manager gadget.

This gadget allows you to manage your clipboard from the Vista Sidebar.The top line always shows the current clipboard content, and other lines show the clipboard history. You can click on any line to make it current.

Control System with Clock

Shows the Control System with Clock gadget.

This gadget allows you to control the standby, shutdown, restart, logoff or hibernate functions for your Computer from the sidebar. We know it only takes a few clicks to access these functions via the start menu, but this does make it quicker and easier.

Asteroids

Shows the Asteroids gadget.

If you like old-fashioned arcade games, you'll enjoy this.

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