  What are Windows desktop gadgets or Windows Sidebar?  Windows
Desktop Gadgets  Windows desktop gadgets is a long and vertical
bar that's shown on the side of the desktop computer. It
contains a small program called gadgets, that provide a method
to manage the info you need to access quickly, without clutter
your work area and also that will display continuously updated
information and let you to perform common tasks without having
to open a window. It's only support Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
For the Windows 8 you have to install 3rd party software called
8GadgetPack.  Why use Windows desktop gadgets? Windows desktop
gadgets can continuously updated information. For example, you
can monitor earthquakes around the world right next to your
desktop. In this way, if you wish to keep an eye on what's going
on in the earthquake news while you work, you don't need to stop
whatever you are doing to switch to another website or close
your document, because the Earthquake Meter are always visible.
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