How about a real-time traffic gadget?
Or a gadget that shows you your latest mail in Outlook?
Or a gadget that shows you your network throughput in a graph?
Here are the latest additions to my gadget collection along with links to the download site so you can install them yourself:
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Traffic by Live Search Maps
Don’t get stuck in gridlock or be late to your next appointment. Traffic by Live Search Maps is a quick and simple way to see real-time traffic conditions in your area. Shortcuts to driving directions, local search or full-screen traffic view on maps.live.com are also easily available from the gadget. All information within this gadget can also be found at maps.live.com. Metro area traffic currently supported in this gadget: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, St Louis, Tampa, Washington DC.
DOWNLOAD: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=d5ad423c-05bd-4de4-8803-b05ecc339397&l=1
Mini Outlook Inbox – v2.0
Your Inbox messages on your sidebar. Read your email from the sidebar via a flyout. You don’t even need to have Outlook open! Incudes the ability to create, reply delete, and forward email. You can now monitor folders other than the inbox. Clicking a message header displays the message body in a flyout. Some instances of Outlook will dispay a security warning asking for permission to get the sender and body of the message. There is a workaround add-in at mapilab.com/outlook/security/. That lets you supress these warnings. Download the latest version now! This one can practically replace Outlook’s email capabilities, no more need to keep it open.
DOWNLOAD: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=21ce0cf7-c129-4308-aca9-a82aaf66437a&l=1
Siemens Sports Gadget
The Siemens Sports Gadget tracks sports scores in real time for major sports like NCAAB, NBA, MLB and more.
Amazon Explorer
A powerful Amazon.com search tool that enables you to locate the lowest price of the item you’re looking for quickly and easily.
DOWNLOAD: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=34b5edb7-eb3b-4027-8948-b9f21d3208cb&l=1
Daily Dilbert
Daily Dilbert is a simple Windows Vista sidebar gadget which delivers the daily dilbert cartoon on your desktop.
DOWNLOAD: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=c6f0ebbb-64a4-4a18-b375-e72a0bd76bc0&l=1
Multi Meter (Dual Core)
Info shown: – Cpu usage % ( 2 cores ) – Ram Usage % – Ram info ( Total, used, left size) – Status bars animated above 90% – 100 Skins + background selection – Help and email support included – Shortcut options Latest fix: – Undocked version – Interval speed option – Skin counter – Bug fixes
DOWNLOAD: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=f5b13626-b266-4334-b2e5-157bd66ca5af&l=1
Network Utilization
Double click to toggle between history/current graphs, hover over the scale % to reveal the scale in MB. On the Settings page, you can change the NIC being monitored, the interval rate, graph history and how often it should rescale the history graph. v1.1 adds Gadget docked/undocked scale options, fixed history scale and bar history graph.
DOWNLOAD: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=53941b50-77eb-42ab-8533-a3d9c841c988&l=1
Drive Info
You can select any drive connected to your system to display information about the drive. Drive letter and name heads the gadget. Displays space used and free in GB and percentage. Also has a usage bar on the bottom to graphically show the drive space usage.
DOWNLOAD: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=a5caf5ec-7004-46e8-8872-762a0f6cba7f&l=1&wa=wsignin1.0
System Information
Displays your computer’s model, processor, RAM, graphics card and operating system information.
DOWNLOAD: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=420af7f6-4a1b-4995-bd1d-97b3bd1ec7d7&l=1
iStat
Monitor battery usage. Shows time remaining when battery is draining. Includes 5 skins
DOWNLOAD: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=633ce49f-84d0-472b-8e94-b467ca5877a0&l=1
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