Vista Sidebar

I am actually a big fan of the sidebar. I loved the Yahoo Widget Engine in XP (formerly Konfobulator), but the simplicity of the sidebar in a little 200px window on your screen is wonderful to me.

Here is a list of the gadgets that I use:

ProWeather
I want to see the current weather and stuff and this thing tells you EVERYTHING!

Analog Clock (built in)

Calendar (built in)

All CPU Meter
This one measures multiple cores which is nice to see.

Hard Drive Monitor
It's nice to see what kind of space you get left!

iTunes Controller
Because I usually have iTunes minimized and am writing code when I get a phone call. It is easier to just hit pause from this gadget which is always visible then to dig around for the iTunes window, bring it up, hit pause, etc...