It felt kinda strange to me all this years that Microsoft never improved the clock in the Windows operating system. All you can basically do with it is to set the time, date and timezone. Sure, you can add additional clocks if you like (limited) but where are common features like alarm or a stopwatch? [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Microsoft introduced gadgets when the company launched the Windows Vista operating system. First in a limited gadget’s sidebar that restricted the location that gadgets could be placed in, and then usable on the full desktop with the release of Windows 7. Users who visit the Windows Live Gallery page are now redirected to a Looking [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Windows

You may have heard recently that Research In Motion is planning on bringing out a number of new smart-phones in the coming months. This includes the new Blackberry Torch, which is the touch screen version of its best selling Bold phone. There will also be a touch-screen only phone dubbed the Torch 9850. But are [...]

Categories: Gadgets, Mobiles

The popular desktop customization suite Rainmeter has been updated by its developers to version 2.0 The new version is fully backwards compatible to existing Rainmeter 1.3 or 1.4 installations and can be installed over the top of those versions. One of the biggest changes in Rainmeter 2.0 is the new unified installer which combines 32-bit, [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Gadgets, which is just another word for small applications, have been improved in Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7. Introduced in Windows Vista and restricted to a sidebar in the operating system they have been freed in Windows 7 from that restriction so that they can be placed anywhere on the screen. Gadgets are installed [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

I’m definitely a gadget guy. I love trying out the latest and the greatest new gadgets. I also love hitting the road and seeing where it will take me. That might be part of the reason why I am such a nut about travel gadgets. There are a ton of cool travel gadgets floating around [...]

Categories: Gadgets, travelling geek

Desktop gadgets, love them or hate them. Some can be pretty useful in specific contexts while others are plain dispensable. Who for instance needs a clock gadget if a clock is displayed all the time in the Windows 7 Taskbar. Gadgets are displayed on the desktop all the time. It is possible to hide them [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

I have reviewed a Windows gadget two days ago that allowed anyone to display images made by a webcam on the computer desktop. The developer pulled the gadget from the website after the review and one commenter asked if anyone had downloaded the gadget from the site and could put it online so that everyone [...]

Categories: Windows

Computer users either love or hate gadgets. Gadgets are small applications that run on the computer desktop. Some common ones are weather reports, note taking, computer resource usage statistics or social networking gadgets to post status updates to Twitter or Facebook. Windows 7 has changed gadgets on the Windows platform by removing the sidebar limitation [...]

Categories: Software, Windows