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Cool Vista Sidebar Gadgets

by Tris Hussey on April 12th, 2007

I love this intro into Alpha Geeks’ Vista gadget article:

Granted, a few Sidebar Gadgets offer little more than eye candy designed to wow consumers at Best Buy. But if you know where to look, you can stock your Sidebar with some genuinely useful tools. Let’s take a look at the cream of the crop.

Source: Alpha Geek: Useful Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets - Lifehacker

That said there are some good ones out there.  From the list given I really like App Launcher and ClipboardHistory.  I don’t need or want a Gmail mailbox thingie.  I have a battery, WiFi, and CPU/Memory gadget.  Of course my ClearContext gadget is right on top.

I’m still looking for a gadget that shows day-night over a map of the world.  Yes, I know that they exist for Google and Yahoo, and I know that there are converter utils, but I’m pretty skeptical about doing the converting thing.

Regardless, good gadgets should be helpful and/or offer a nice distraction from the day.  You have a must-have gadget?

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