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Embedding .NET Controls In Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets
White Papers Sidebar gadgets are a new feature of Windows Vista that allows users to run mini HTML-based applications on the desktop. Although a typical gadget uses dynamic HTML with lots of script code, it is also possible for gadgets to host .NET assemblies...
[July 5, 2007, 1:00]
EBay Sellers Watch Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget
Downloads eBay Sellers Watch integrates with your My eBay to give you a dynamic, automatically updated view of your Selling list. Set popup alerts to notify you before auctions and when auctions close. View complete eBay details in the flyout window or use...
[March 14, 2007, 8:46]
EBay Auction Watch Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget
Downloads eBay Auction Watch integrates with your My eBay to give you a dynamic, automatically updated view of your Bidding and Watching lists. Watch the seconds tick down in real time and set popup alerts to notify you before auctions close and when you are...
[July 2, 2007, 10:31]
DayMon
Downloads Small Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget that helps those who want to be reminded of upcoming birthdays. DayMon is a gadget that will show on your desktop or Vista Sidebar birthday and anniversary data is taken from Windows Vista Contacts folder.
[December 14, 2007, 11:33]
Vista Sidebar Restoration
Downloads Backup your existing Windows Vista Sidebar combination and restore it. Because of the fact that several times Windows Vista Sidebar is tangled, use this application to restore it with a single button press.
[September 13, 2008, 15:16]
Driving Sidebar Gadgets With ActiveX And C#
White Papers The Windows Sidebar is one of the most striking features of the new Vista desktop. With Vista and its Sidebar, one can enhance the formerly static Windows desktop with myriad widgets and doodads, appropriately named "Gadgets.
[July 11, 2007, 1:00]
Thoosje Vista Sidebar
Downloads Our Vista sidebar for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista has gadgets like media players, Sticky's, calculators, google search, yahoo search, and lots of more search engines. The sidebar uses 50% less RAM and is faster than the original Microsoft...
[August 19, 2008, 20:16]
Megarock Radio Player For Vista Sidebar
Downloads This media player is designed to bring you one click access to Megarock Radio free online rsdio streams right to your desktop by the way of the new Windows Vista sidebar. You MUST be using the Windows Sidebar to use this tool.
[January 10, 2007, 10:01]
Google Desktop 5 Released
News Vista, the latest version of Windows, offers similar functionality to the desktop sidebar, but Google Desktop 5 appears to have taken the concept further. The application involves a sidebar for the user's desktop environment, including a variety of...
[April 27, 2007, 17:55]
Windows Longhorn: Build M5 review
Reviews The sidebar holds Windows' QuickLaunch bar (sadly, you can't relocate the QuickLaunch buttons to their normal home on the Taskbar, at least in this build), a desktop search tool and a Longhorn-logo clock.
[May 8, 2003, 7:33]
Google Revamps Desktop
News Microsoft launched MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search last May and is planning to include its own Sidebar product in Windows Vista. Google is adding new features to its Desktop search program, including further customisation of the...
[February 9, 2006, 9:15]
Allchin Makes The Business Case For Sidebar
News Windows Vista, the update to the operating system due this year, will add a feature called Sidebar. Sidebar is a small panel at the side of the monitor that can be used to view photo slide shows, RSS feeds and other small programs, dubbed gadgets.
[February 6, 2006, 14:00]
PIMShell
Downloads Presentation: You can present your data with Page or Windows Sidebar. The webparts in PIMShell can also be used as the gadgets in the Windows Sidebar. PIMShell is a personal information manager (PIM) add-on for IE6/IE7/IE8.
[September 29, 2008, 15:31]
DataCapper
Downloads A Windows Sidebar gadget version is also available from the author's website, this requires Windows Sidebar Styler. DataCapper is a broadband datacap monitoring system. It allows users to monitor their internet data usage and supports several...
[February 14, 2008, 12:16]
Windows Vista February CTP review
Reviews There are two new end-user features worth noting in build 5308: Windows Welcome Center and Windows Sidebar/Gadgets. Windows Sidebar/Gadgets: Now you can run mini-applications like Mac OS X users currently do.
[February 23, 2006, 7:25]
Gates Offers Vista Close-up
News Windows Vista Sidebar, which runs in the corner of the screen and includes RSS feeds, sports scores and other small applications. Microsoft showed Sidebar in the first preview of Longhorn (Vista's code name), but the feature had disappeared from...
[January 5, 2006, 7:50]
Google Desktop 4 Beta review
Reviews The Desktop 4 Sidebar displays a bunch of mini-windows representing applets called Gadgets, as well as online information you choose, such as sports scores and financial news. However, this is a matter of personal preference, and we understand that...
[June 23, 2006, 11:45]
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther review
Reviews As with the Dock and the toolbar, you can add your own files and folders to the sidebar, which also appears in Open and Save windows. If you type a URL in the Go menu's Connect To Server window, file sharing is the same as before: the server mounts...
[October 31, 2003, 10:25]
Windows Vista RC1 (build 5564) review
Reviews For example, there's an icon in the task tray to restore the Sidebar feature when it's disabled, and there's tighter integration with the Windows Live family of online services, such as Windows Live OneCare.
[September 4, 2006, 12:00]
Fourteen Views Of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard review
Reviews There's a new sidebar that allows you to search the contents of other machines (including Windows machines) on your home or corporate network. Enhanced for Leopard is iCal, which adopts an iTunes-like sidebar for easy scheduling.
[June 15, 2007, 14:20]
