Archive for the 'Gadgets' Category
Six safety tips for using gadgets with Windows Vista
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Gadgets are easy-to-use mini programs that provide information at a glance and offer simple desktop access to tools you use most often. For example, you can use gadgets to display business data, weather information, news updates, traffic maps, Internet radio streams, and even slide shows of online photo albums on your desktop.
Vista SideBar and gadgets the new frontier for malware
Saturday, March 10th, 2007While security features in Windows Vista will make it harder for malware coders to develop worms that target operating system vulnerabilities, Symantec is tipping that malware coders will turn their attention to other vulnerabilities, like Vista’s new Windows SideBar and gadgets. “(Worms that target core operating system vulnerabilities were) largely responsible for the majority of [...]
Vista SideShow
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007One of Vista’s features that has caught our attention is SideShow. Think of SideShow as Vista’s sidekick. With the help of these mini apps that MS calls "gadgets," SideShow can let you perform small tasks like read e-mail, check on weather, look through photos, or flip through your list of contacts regardless of whether your [...]
Top 10 Windows Sidebar Gadgets
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007With the full retail release of Microsoft Windows Vista just around the corner, one of the major things a new user of Windows Vista will immediately notice is the sidebar. It’s a feature that appeared, dissapeared and the re-appeared thankfully in the later and final version of Windows Vista. I say thankfully as it’s possibly [...]
Developing Gadgets for the Windows Sidebar
Monday, January 8th, 2007Windows Vista introduced the Sidebar – an anchored panel on the Windows desktop that can host mini-applications known as gadgets. These gadgets are fun to develop and can deliver real value to a user’s desktop. Windows Vista ships with gadgets that can track stock prices, display news feeds, and deliver weather forecasts. The gadgets users [...]
