Computer gadgets

Computer gadgets are fun but they aren’t really necessary.
They can be divided in 2 categories: software gadgets (desktop gadgets )  and hardware ones.
First you will see the desktop gadgets. The most popular are Google gadgets, open source gadgets and Vista ones.

Google Gadgets

Well known are the open source Google Desktop Gadgets like: Google-battery (Never lose track of your power. Always tell you how much battery power is left) Google-calculator (Calculator gadget for Google Desktop), Google-cricket-news (Displays cricket news headlines and images), Google-cricket-videos (the same like the previous only it displays videos on your desktop), Google-desktop-sdk (Complete examples of using the Google Desktop Gadget APIs) Google-digital-clock (is one of my favorite desktop gadgets, it is obviously what it does: it shows time, but in a beautiful manner ),Google-flower-pot (It is a Virtual Flower Pot which will grow to full bloom right before your eyes if you give the flowers some water using your mouse like the old Tamagoci games), Google-moon-phase (Displays the moon’s current phase) and Google-timezone (Find what the time is in different locations).

Open source gagdets

Open source gadgets mean any software whose source code is made available for use or modification for users or developers.
The advantages of the open source gadgets are evident: since everyone can modify the source they are improved continually by software communities and the vast majority of open source programs are free.
I’m currently using: OpenOffice.org to write and manage documents, Filezilla for FTP connections, Paint.net to work with graphics and Thunderbird to read and write emails.
Don’t aspect the open source gadgets to have as many features as the paid ones, after all you get them for free.

Vista gadgets

Vista gadgets are meat to do working in Vista simple and fun.
The most popular Vista gadgets are: Volume Gadget (This vista gadget allows you to control the volume directly from the windows sidebar), µTorrent Stats (With this sidebar gadget Start, pause or stop the torrent you want. View stats for each torrent separately, and view all files of the torrent), Multi Meter (Dual Core) (This gadget shows the following infos: Cpu usage ( 2 cores ), Ram Usage and Ram info ( Total, used, left size). Moreover this gadget included 100 Skins.), Weather show (The weather show gadget displays weather forecast from lots of cities around the world. This gadget also display in a flyout extra forecast for several selected cities.), CPU utilization (This vista gadgets display the CPU core utilization in bar and the history as a graph. Several options are available to configure the gadget as well as possible) and Media Player (This media player gadget can be used to play music, videos or radios from the Windows Media Player media database. All the usual functions of a multimedia player are available; moreover the gadget includes 4 skins).

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