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Friday, August 10, 2007

A Cool Feature in Vista

Now that I've ranted about what's annoying in Windows Vista, here's a new discovery that's actually pretty cool: the Windows Sidebar and assorted gadgets. It's well-known that I'm a fan of Firefox, primarily because of its customizability. Vista offers its own version of something that I believe Macs have offered for years--the ability to install useful little programs onto their own sidebar, which stays on the desktop (click on the link for a photo--it does look rather Mac-like, doesn't it). Sometimes the gadgets are just an easier way to access other programs, sometimes they're links to websites (I have one-click access to finding synonyms for any word that I type, for example), sometimes they're tools in their own right. Currently my sidebar shows an alarm clock, a hibernate button, a calculator, the thesaurus, weather, and a wi-fi hotspot finder.

Labels: computers, Windows Vista

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