Of all the weather-based Gadgets out there, WeatherBug takes up the most space but it does so with good reason. The gadget provides complete current and forecasted weather information through understandable visuals. Users can even choose which weather server the Gadget will pull the data from. As simple as they come, Battery Meter shows detailed information on current battery usage.
If you're mindful about energy consumption, you can also see how many volts of power are being used to charge your PC. How fast are those disk drives? Find out with Drives Meter, which provides rea-time speed information in terms of data being transferred to and from the disk. Features include the tracking of multiple drives at the same time, and a complete reset that brings all info back to zero.
Network Meter presents that and much more without taking up too much of your screen. You can even enlarge this gadget on high-resolution displays, so you can determine your current download speed without squinting. There are tons of CPU info Gadgets out there. Many copies of Vista and 7 even come with one pre-installed. Even if your PC somehow runs on a core processor, this gadget can tell you how each core is performing, and you can expand the Gadget at any time for detailed information. This gadget provides detailed, real-time information on the performance and status of any graphics hardware it detects.
If you consider your PC to be the center of your own operations center, this Gadget will reinforce that notion. When do you connect to a Wi-Fi network, the Monitor displays important info such as signal strength and data transfer speeds. Speed Test is a misnomer of sorts because this gadget isn't a benchmarking tool. Rather, it lets users keep track of CPU and RAM speed performance in real time without taking up too much space on their screens.
Everything, from the appearance of the Gadget itself to the color of each item's corresponding line graph, is customizable. Also designed for computers running more than one drive , Drive Activity shows which drives are busy or idle at any given time. Keep photos organized-and ready to share Is your collection of digital photos getting out of hand?
You don't have to search through folders to track down the ones you want. Now you can tag your photos with a date, keyword, rating, or any label you choose so you can find them quickly and easily in Windows Photo Gallery.
You can also use Photo Gallery to fix and edit photos, and then share them with family and friends through slideshows, e-mail, or prints—so everything you need for photos is in one place. Create a custom movie without a fine arts degree Making a great home movie just got easier. Use Windows Movie Maker to blend videos and photos into a rich movie, complete with your own soundtrack, titles, and credits.
FeedDemon Get all your news delivered to one place with FeedDemon. This once paid-for, now free, application makes keeping up with your favourite web sites easy, and more importantly, helps you keep on top of thousands of feeds. Aerofoil A quick application that enables you to turn off Windows Aero graphics at the touch of a button, which is great for gaming and notebook applications alike.
It also enables you to set power plans for mobile devices, to make batteries last that bit longer. Price Free Web silentdevelopment. You can stream video, or download programmes to your computer to watch in high quality whenever you want.
Using Adobe Air, this slick program lets you finetune searches, watch auctions and make bids in a smooth interface away from the linear web site structure. Price Free Web desktop. Audacity From creating ringtones to editing sound recordings and making podcasts, anything is possible in Audacity, the open-source sound editor.
If it didn't, we wouldn't be talking about the iPhone all the time. A good user experience matters. Look at the screenshot to the right here. Don't be afraid. This is one of the reasons why Jenny Lam is my hero her team at Microsoft really did a great job on this. This kind of improved experience throughout the OS makes Windows Vista much more pleasurable. While there are plenty of people who use our software to make XP look a lot like Vista, there's no substitute for the real thing.
A lot of us have big giant cases under our desk. In fact, in the age of the monitor having the USB ports, the case is getting farther and farther away from us. So the days of being able to simply listen to the hard drive crunching are long over. And if the CPU meter wasn't pegged then I'd go and look at the case to see if I could hear the hard drive crunching. On Vista, the task manager will tell you how much of your hard drive bandwidth you're using up and tell you what process is accessing the disk.
On Windows XP, if your system runs out of handles, programs won't launch and weird things start to happen.
There's no warning message about it. Almost nobody knows what a user handle is.
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