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Web gadgets run on Web sites such as Live.com and Windows Live Spaces. Live.com lets users add RSS feeds in order to view news at a glance. Building off Microsoft's start.com experimental page, Live.com can be customized with Web Gadgets, mini-applications that can serve almost any purpose (e.g. mail readers, weather reports, slide shows, search, games, etc.).
The AOL homepage can be pinned to your Start menu to avoid having to open your browser and manually enter the web address. Pinning an item to your Start menu creates a tile that acts like a shortcut to a website you use the most.
Click Pin to Start to add this app to your Start menu. Alternatively, you can select Pin to taskbar if you would like to add a shortcut to the bottom of your desktop. Now you have easy access to your favorite AOL apps from the Start menu or desktop!
There's no reason to waste time looking through your Start menu to launch Desktop Gold when you can have the shortcut ready and waiting for you right on your desktop. Easily add it to your desktop with just a few clicks of your mouse. 1. By the system clock in the taskbar, click the Expand icon . 2. Right-click on the AOL Desktop Gold icon . 3.
Interface elements known as graphical control elements, controls or widgets are software components that a computer user interacts with through direct manipulation to read or edit information about an application. Each widget facilitates a specific user-computer interaction.
In Windows Vista, the widgets are restricted to a sidebar but in Windows 7, they can be freely moved anywhere on the desktop. Windows Desktop Gadgets was discontinued in Windows 8 . The Windows 8 Live Tiles can perform a similar function, but they are only visible when the Start menu is visible.
Add your favorite featured products or services to your Desktop Gold toolbar and they'll always be one click away. 1. Sign in to AOL Desktop Gold. 2. Click the Add a Favorite icon . 3. Left-click a product or service | Click Add to Toolbar. Want to make your toolbar stand out? Customize it by adding personalized labels and images. 1.
In other words, widgets are basic visual building blocks which, combined in an application, hold all the data processed by the application and the available interactions on this data. GUI widgets are graphical elements used to build the human-machine-interface of a program. GUI widgets are implemented like software components.