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Top 25 Vista Sidebar Gadgets

Not everyone is a fan of vista gadget and many things that it’s just a waste of space but with proper implementation it can be quite useful. Here in this article We will discuss few of these useful sidebar gadgets.

• zCalendar

I know you guys are probably familiar with the Vista’s default Calendar gadget but feature wise zCalendar is far better. Keeping the same basic design zcalender adds tons of more functionality.

• miniIP

This vista gadgets display your external IP information in the windows sidebar, but also the hostname, city, region, country etc.

• Digital World Clocks

This is a Digital variation to the default Analog Clock from Microsoft. You can add multiple clocks with different timezone and clock name. This Sidebar Gadget is purely deisgned as/for educational purpose.

• Blogger Buddy

This vista gadget allows you to post to your blogs on blogger.com. This very easy to use gadget includes all the essentials functions for blogging.

• Twitter Explorer

The Twitter Explorer is an excellent tool to help you keep up with Twitter messages on your sidebar.

• WeatherBug

Receive live weather conditions for anywhere in the world on your Sidebar. Get detailed forecasts, radar, weather cameras, and severe weather alerts from any of WeatherBug’s 8,000 Tracking Stations.

• Language Translator

Auto translates in 43 languages, and easy to use.

• Auction Sidebar Tool for eBay

Auction Sidebar Tool is an extremely popular application designed to take the hassle out of managing your eBay account. Its at-a-glance, color coded view enables quick identification of winning or losing bids and it will alert you whenever something needs your attention.

• Vista Shutdown Control

With this gadget you can shutdown, restart or lock your computer with only one click. Furthermore it shows the time and you can change the design.

• Music Search Gadget

Using SidePlayer you can put an end to music downloads. No more piracy! No more problems downloading mp3s. No more waiting just to find out you’ve downloaded something you didn’t want. Just think of an artist or track name, give it to SidePlayer and sit back and enjoy the music.

SidePlayer searches and plays over 2 million audio tracks. SidePlayer is a gadget for your Windows Vista SideBar. The idea of the SidePlayer is to be able to play any audio track right from the desktop, without launching any browsers and doing any searching. All the music that SidePlayer plays can be found using a standard search and all the music is provided for free by many music providers.

• Network Meter

This 2 in 1 Network Meter (Wireless Network Meter and Wired Network Meter) will show you SSID, signal quality, IP address, External IP address, IP lookup with google maps, Speed test, upload speed, download speed, total of usage, whether your connection is secure or not secure and size adjustable.

• Say It!

Type a sentence and press enter to hear your computer talk. Say It! is the wildly popular gadget that allows you to perform text-to-speech right from your Vista Sidebar. Download the next evolution of the gadget that countless thousands have already enjoyed. Version 2.0 provides even more features to help you waste your day,

• GMail Reader

This gadget automatically checks your GMail account for new email periodically. When you receive new email, you will be notified by a sound alert. The gadget also summarizes the 20 latest emails from your inbox. Authentication is based on the Google Accounts API and inbox items are retrieved via the GMail Atom feed.

• myFacebook

The myFacebook gadget allows you to bring Facebook right into your windows vista desktop. With it you’ll be able to change your status, see your friends’ statuses, groups, notifications, albums and events.After installing it you’ll have to generate an one-time 6 digit facebook code which you’ll then have to enter at the gadget settings to access it.Enjoy.

• talking girl clock

just an update to our first talking clock, we have a new cheerleaders talking clock just click on macmeister to see with 7 cheerleaders and option to add your name or quote to the talking announcement.

• Spirit Detecter

Monitor the cosmic energy for the spirits of the since departed famous, or maybe warn yourself of when Santa may be watching you (he knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you’re awake).
Sensitivity and your choice of spirit to monitor can be adjusted.

• iTunes Gadget

A simple little gadget that allows for the control of tracks in iTunes. Next, previous, and the toggling of the play/pause state are available. Current track information is also displayed within the gadget. User can also choose to have the display updated at their own defined intervals, reducing the any system overhead due to sidebar resource useage.

• uTorrent Gadget

Morrent Gadget is a remote control for uTorrent which will enable you to control your torrents downloads and uploads from Windows Sidebar. It has the ability to begin a torrent by simply dragging and dropping .torrent files or .torrent URLs from torrent sites. At the bottom of the gadget is a search box to search for torrents, you could also customize it to search your favourite torrent sites. Torrents will be marked Good, Poor, Virus, Password and Fake from Morrent’s user feedback system.

• Wireless Network Gadget

This SideBar gadget shows the status of your current Wireless connection.

• Outlook Tasks

The Outlook Tasks gadget shows you your tasks, flagged e-mail, and flagged tasks from Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 together in the Vista Sidebar, just as they appear in the Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar. You can sort the tasks by date, category or priority, and you can include or exclude groups that you don’t want see. The gadget has two sizes so that you can see more or fewer tasks. You can double click on tasks to open them in Outlook. You can enter new tasks into Outlook through the new item row at the top of the gadget. You can mark tasks complete by clicking on the checkbox on the left side of the gadget. The theme of the gadget matches the theme of Office. This gadget only works with Outlook 2007.

• Avatar360

Use Avatar360 is simple.
Type friends GamerTag at setting screen.
Voila! Friends avatar shown to your desktop.
Click avatar’s belly to show the GamerCard.
Grab avatar’s head to move anywhere.

• YouTube Video Downloader

A simple sidebar gadget to download YouTube video. Just enter the URL(The address of the page where you are watching the YouTube video[only youtube site please for this version]) and download the video in flv format. Use VLC Media Player or FLV Player to watch it.

• Wikipedia Search

Wikipedia Search – results are displayed in the browser. Multi-lang supported through settings.

• Webcam gadget 2.0

This gadget can display a webcam that you can define for yourself: streaming, image-feed or even your local webcam which is connected directly to your Vista machine. If you find bugs or have other comments, please let me know. Some known issues will be soon fixed:- Local webcam source does not function under Vista x64- Local webcam source can not be enlarged in a flyout- Flyouts (for all 3 sources) can not be resized- Image-feed sometimes does not refresh at the given interval

• Remote Desktop Gadget v1.5

This gadget is a launch pad for quickly remote controlling other Windows machines via RDP. It is quick easy and convenient to use. Supports 10 predefined connections and type in your dynamic server address. I found the other solutions available didn’t meet my needs. If you have suggetions I am happy to incorporate them. Pleae let me know my email is in the configuration tab.