What are Gadgets?
Gadgets are a new category of mini-application designed to provide information, useful lookup, or enhance an application or service on your Windows PC or the Web.
Examples might include a weather gadget running on your desktop or on your homepage, an RSS Gadget that pulls in your favorite feeds, or an extension of a business application providing just-in-time status on the pulse of your business.

Gadgets come in three flavors:

* Gadgets for Windows Sidebar will run on your desktop or dock into Windows Sidebar, an upcoming feature in Windows Vista alongside other applications.
Desktop Gadgets can developed using Windows Presentation Foundation, DHTML/Atlas, and even ActiveX controls.
The beauty of Desktop Gadgets is that they are visually and programmatically rich – scaling from vector-based graphics and managed code to standard techniques you’d use for the Web.
You’ll be hearing more about Windows Sidebar over the coming months here as we approach release around Beta 2 of Windows Vista.

* Gadgets for Start.com (a.k.a. Web or Server-based Gadgets) provide a fast, customizable homepage with a clean user interface – putting the user in control of more of their online experience.
Currently in incubation/public preview, Start.com is a place where consumers can customize the web to their liking by adding their own sources of content including RSS web-feeds and web-based Gadgets that extend functionality of their site- anything from custom calendars to service integration.
Start.com demonstrates the use of DHTML and ASP.Net Atlas, which separates the data from the UI resulting in significant performance improvements.
In addition, Start.com Gadgets can easily support docking into the Windows Sidebar.

* Gadgets for Windows SideShowâ„¢ (a.k.a. Auxilary Display Gadgets) allow users to view their information on devices.
Users can view their data where they want it, whether it is for instant access on the lid of a laptop PC, for notifications on a keyboard display or for convenience on a detached device like a cell phone.
Gadgets for Windows SideShow run on the PC and use COM interfaces to send data to devices.
This Windows SideShow platform combined with the power of desktop applications allows for new scenarios and opportunities.


Contents:

Mail and contacts

Voice mail
GMail Quick Login
Gmail Gadget
Outlook gadget
Outlook Tasks Gadget
Outlook Appointments Gadget
Phone Notify


Music, movies, TV

Twenty Four Clock
iTunes Accessory
iTunes
MC Radio
Windows Media Gadget


Safety And Security

Terror Alert 0.0.0.1
Firewall Profile


Tools and utilities

(Blister) CPU
(Blister) HDD
Alarm Clock
App Launcher
App Launcher New features
Battery
Battery Monitor
Battery Vista
Black Glass CPU Meter
Calculator
Calender
Cpu Meter (Single Core)
Date
Digital Clock
Digital World Clock
Drive Info
DriveInfo
eBook World
Express Calculator
Game Server Monitor
HDD Meter v1.26
Hindi Radio
i Weather
iClock
Ip Config
Media Player
Media Player Shuffle Gadget
Memory Meter
Multi Meter (Dual Core) NEW!
Network Activity
Network Monitor
OptusNet Quota
Perfmon Gadget
Performance Monitor
Ping Gadget
Postage Calculator (UK)
Prayer Times
Presto's Hard Drive Monitor
RDP Quicklauncher v1.1
Recycle Bin
Remote Desktop Gadget
Run
Sattle Traffic
StopFM Radio
System Information
SYSTRAN Translator and Dictionary
Temperature Converter
Uptime Gadget
Vista Calculator
Windows Firewall Profile
Windows Vista Countdown
XBOX MSP Calculator


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