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It hosts mini-applications or "gadgets" which are a combination of scripts and HTML code. Their use cases include displaying system time, downloading and displaying RSS feeds, or controlling other software such as Windows Media Player. In Windows Vista, gadgets can run "docked" in the sidebar. In Windows 7, they can "float" anywhere on the desktop.
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.).
FileHippo was estimated to be worth over US$13,000,000 in November 2015. [ 5 ] Before Softonic acquired the FileHippo.com website, it was funded by user donations and third-party advertising, [ 1 ] had an Update Checker, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] later renamed App Manager, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] a free program that scanned a computer for outdated software and offered ...
The original sidebar had 'gadgets', if you will, for notifications and Quick Launch. While the notification 'gadget' was displayed, the notification area was not visible. These were removed in the reset. The current sidebar is not part of the shell, as the original was, and thus cannot control the display of notifications.
Silverlight can also be used to create Windows Sidebar gadgets for Windows Vista. [ 29 ] Silverlight supports H.264 video, [ 30 ] Advanced Audio Coding , Windows Media Video (WMV), Windows Media Audio (WMA), and MPEG Layer III (MP3) media content [ 31 ] across all supported browsers without requiring Windows Media Player , the Windows Media ...
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Windows Vista was released to manufacturing on November 8, 2006 and includes two SideShow gadgets, one for Windows Mail and one for Windows Media Player. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Microsoft Office 2007 , released to manufacturing on the same day as Windows Vista, included an Outlook 2007 calendar gadget for SideShow.
DesktopX was a shareware desktop enhancement program that allowed users to build their own custom desktops. Amongst its features was a complete widget engine for Windows as well as a desktop object system.