Sidebar Gadget

There’s a new MSN Video sidebar gadget now available for download from the Windows Live Gallery. This gadget displays video from the both the MSN Video and Soapbox catalogs across 30+ countries and languages. After installing it, I was surprised by the number of options available. For example,…

There’s a new sidebar gadget available for fans of the To Do list service “Remember the Milk.” It’s cleverly called the “I Forgot the Milk” gadget. Actually, the gadget itself isn’t brand-new – it’s been out since January – but this latest update is, and frankly, this time it’s a lot more usable. …

Amnesty Generator is free software for Windows PCs that lets you put nearly any widget on your desktop, including those from services like YourMinis, SpringWidgets, Widgetbox, iGoogle, and now the New York Times. Although the software is designed to work in Windows Vista, DownloadSquad is reporting…

For fans of Pandora’s personalized music service, there’s something that you have to try: the Pandora sidebar gadget. With this gadget installed on your Windows PC, you can play Pandora radio directly from your Vista desktop. When the gadget is docked in the sidebar, you can see the currently…

I can’t believe I didn’t know this existed! As I blogger, I live in Windows Live Writer almost as much - if not more - than I live in email. So how did I not know that there’s a Windows Sidebar gadget just for Live Writer? Awesome. This is my new must-have for all my Windows machines.   The…

Are you a political junkie? Here in the U.S. it's hard not to be when it's election season. With so much going on - rallies, debates, and economic crises - it seems that the poll numbers change every day. Now you don't have to wait on the news to give you the latest info from the presidential polls…

If you are a Facebook user running Vista or XP, there’s a new Facebook sidebar gadget for you to check out. This gadget lets you quickly change your Facebook status as well as see all the notifications sent to you including pokes, event invites, messages, friend requests, wall posts, etc. When you…

Donavon West, who previously brough us the Obama DeepZoom, is back with a Beijing 2008 Olympic Medal Count Gadget. Updating every 15 minutes, this daget will show the top 5 gold, silver, and bronze medal counts. You can also click on the countries to get more specific information.

Amnesty Generator is an application that will convert Google Gadgets, millions of web widgets from various galleries, YouTube videos, or other HTML into a custom gadget that you can use in Vista's Sidebar. Using the app couldn't be more simple, just paste in the HTML that you would normally drop…