Recommended Sidebar Gadgets

I thought it would be cool to compile a thread full of cool sidebar gadgets, so here goes:
Black Glass CPU/Memory
Battery Monitor
Multi-Meter (Dual Core)
System Control
App Launcher
DriveInfo
AccuWeather
Wireless Gadget
Calvin and Hobbes

Feel free to add your own recommended gadgets!

 

I also have a recommendation for sidebar software:

Windows Sidebar Styler

This program allows you to change many aspects of sidebar including buttons, skins, and more

 

thank you very much for the gadgets

 

heres one of mine:
vistaClock:
http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=d9ca85f5-b2d4-4366-9054-ceefe2a27336&bt=1&pl=1
thanks for the stuff
+rep

 

does anyone else have any suggestions?

 

Not really, you've listed most of the good ones. The only ones i can think of are the gadgets by Accuweather.

 

A temperature monitor would be great. Unfortunately, nobody created one yet.

 

Sky News Widget
Run command widget

 

I would like one that pulls the tasks from OutLook (as created and maintained on my PDA by PocketBreeze/PocketInformant) and displays them. I've only been able to find SideBar Gadgets that pull the Appointment data from OutLook.

 

You can get a system monitor gadget, but i think you have to run something else for it to read off of.


I dug this one up and it replaced other seperate ones doing the same thing. It runs along with rmclock, but i removed that part of it from within the code, as i dont like running rmclock for just the thrill I also removed the power scheme buttons from mine since those only work by using them with rmclock.


Notebook Control, New Gadget for Vista 5744




Link to thread http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.php?showtopic=6757

 

Yeah, a temp. monitor would be pretty cool

 

Sweet! is it available in english though? The screenshot is in some other language.

 

No kidding, I wonder why.

I have been waiting for one ever since I loaded Vista onto my desktop, and now I have it on my laptop too.

 

LOL, didnt even notice. Mine is in english. It must just take the system settings because i never fooled with the language

 

i especially like that battery one b/c unlike others, it shows you estimated battery time remaining so you dn't have to constantly keep scrolling over the little system icon and having to wait like 2 secs for it to pop up

 

Seriously? Wow...its not hard to make for those skilled developers...I wonder why no one's made one.

Not to be "pro-Mac" in any way, but OS X has had temperature widgets since Dashboard was released with Tiger in 2005...

Oh, and nice thread you've got going here, v3loc1ty2.0. Enjoy the sig .

 

Oh cool! Ill try it then

Yeah the sig is awesome! Thanks once again

 

You, use Mac...You live Mac, breath mac, and eat mac. So you are pro-mac even though you try not to sound that way Sam, but we'll take pity on you. (Because you use Mac )

 

there is a cpu temp gadget, but you need 'everest' installed

 

yeah, but unfortunately, everest costs money
i wish it was still freeware

 

He might have been suggesting using p2p.

 

gpu temp gauge would be cool too

 

if you google it; the free version is still out there for DL

 

who? what?

 

oh cool ok

 

heres an interesting gadget:
Drag and Drop Print

 

wow i almost forgot one of my favorites:
TopProcess

 

I was talking about eyecon82 but he already said that the free version is still out there so it doesn't matter.

 

what about me?

 

oh ok yeah

 

About how you wanted him to get the program. Just never mind.

 

lol..ok...just was a little confused! enjoy the gadgets!

 

heres another cool gadget
Vista "Hot Corners" (a gadget that simulates the "hot corners" function from Mac osx, but instead launches flip3d or expose)

 

Found another nice system gadget!



http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=d5391210-e7fe-47af-9372-b47eeefcb275&bt=1&pl=1

Whats the best outlook gadget? Ive been using sidebar outlook, but its a little bugy

 

wow thats a cool gadget
ill look for other outlook gadgets

 

unfortunately the temperature monitoring feature doesn't seem to work on my laptop.

 

Doesnt work on mine, or my buddies HP notebook either. You just reminded me about this. I wanted to read some of the code and see where its calling the temp from. I tried running everest to see if it was gonna pull it from there, but i forgot

You can go in options and remove it from the view.
You can empty the recyle bin from the gadget.
I think its the best most compact version of system stuff ive found.

 

I'm pretty fond of this one. Good for those who do more complex math than the simple windows calculator can handle.

Calculatorium

 

Great gadgets v3loc1ty2.0 and great thread!!

I found one or two at Extremetech.com that interested me:

Clipboard History allows you to manage your clipboard files


Sphere Timer is a digital clock for Vista with alarm, timer, a countdown and even a lap timer!

and last but nost least: Panda Cam displays a live broadcast of the Panda cage at the San Diego Zoo instead of the picture slide show. Awesome I really wish they did something like that for the Nurburgring instead.. But i'll be happy with a Panda for now

edit: Two more for the paranoid amongst you from About.com

AlertCon displays the current risk of important email viruses or worms on the net. Refreshes every 60 minutes directly from the ISS site.

Terror Alert Level is linked to the Department of Homeland Defence and displays the current likelihood of terrorist attacks.

 

The reason for this is actually quite easy, all macs have very specific hardware requirements. They are all exactly the same. But PC and other notebooks vary greatly in the hardware they use.

Part of that hardware is the tempature monitors, it could have diffrent monitors or even none at all. So it would be incredibly hard to have one program that knows which if any monitors to use and how to read them.

You will notice some programs try like everest, or speed fan ect that read temps but you will also notice usually between your computer bios, and one program and the next you get different readings just because of that reason I mentioned.

One program gives me like 8c different than the next even tho they are both the same kind.

 

I saw the same page, I use both the clipboard manager and the timer. Best looking clock IMO and has an alarm.

The clipboard program crashes from time to time on me tho.

 

wow great gadgets guys!

 

that clipboard gadget is cool!
thanks!

 

great widgets guys....

edited: oops.. i mean gadgets.sorry

 

yeah lol

 

Right now i use:
Date v6
Digital World Clock
VolumeGadget

 

Could anyone recommend me a good countdown timer gadget. The one I'm currently using isn't working so well for me. The text is too small and the countdown seems to be off. Any help would be great. Thanks.

 

Sphere Timer is decent. The UI is a little rough around the edges but it's ok once you get used to it. You can drag it off of the dock to make the text bigger.

 

would anyone happen to know of a gadget for USA/Canadian news?

for instance..a gadget that displays few of the news headlines from CNN or MSNBC?

thanks!

 

You could get an RSS reader gadget (such as Feed Reader) and then plug in any RSS feeds you want.