Windows 7 Gadgets
On this site we review gadgets for Windows 7. Windows Vista and Windows 7 both have a so called “sidebar” that allows you to put gadgets right on your desktop. We think this is one of the best Windows 7 features there is, because you can add so much fun stuff, but also useful gadgets to your desktop, e.g. stock gadgets, live tickers, RSS feeds and much more.
You want a small Windows 7 sidebar gadget to launch applications instead of using the taskbar? Here’s an app launcher gadget that might come in handy, plus my favorite alternative – a circle dock for Windows 7.
Do you own an ATI or NVIDIA graphic card? If you want to keep an eye on your temperature because you are overclocking or you simply like to know what’s going on inside your PC, you might want to download this GPU temperature gadget for Windows 7!
Do you want a notepad gadget for Windows 7? If so, you can either use the possibly best free sticky notes alternative or you could download this notepad gadget that works exactly like the notes gadget of Vista.
My favorite messengers are Digsby and Pidgin. If you are using Pidgin, you should grab this free Pidgin gadget for Windows 7 that will add your buddies to the Windows 7 sidebar. Neat, huh?
Already downloaded the World Cup theme for Windows 7 including icons and star orb? Well, then you might want to get the world cup gadget as well!
The lyrics gadget will display the lyrics of a song that is played by either Windows Media Player, iTunes, Winamp, foobar, qmp, mediamonkey or Audioscrobbler. Additionally, it will show you the album art:
If you read our tutorial to speed up your internet connection in Windows 7 then you might want to grab this internet speed gadget to verify how good your signal strength (WLAN) and download speed are.
