Best Desktop widget / gadget app?

[Crow550]

What would say is the best widget / gadget desktop app?

Google Desktop? http://desktop.google.com/

Yahoo Widgets? http://widgets.yahoo.com/

and uhhhhhhhh......Well I don't know what else there is.....*shrugs*

What else is there?

 

[jalaram]

Vista Sidebar?

Yahoo Widgets (aka Konfabulator) has an amazing collection of widgets and is available for Mac and PC (for most widgets).

 

[Sam25]

I like Desktop Sidebar. I'm using it with Windows XP.

 

[armstrda]

Originally posted by: jalaram
Vista Sidebar?

Yahoo Widgets (aka Konfabulator) has an amazing collection of widgets and is available for Mac and PC (for most widgets).

Is Yahoo Widgets any better with system resources? I used it about 2 - 3 years ago, and it was way too processor and memory intensive just to have simple widgets (clock, battery gauge, performance indicator, etc).

 

[lxskllr]

I use Vista's sidebar. It works the best out of the few I've tried.

 

[Crow550]

What about XP users?

 

[lxskllr]

For XP I always use Google Desktop. I liked it a bit better than Yahoo Widgets.

 

[corkyg]

I use Vista Sidebar, then remove the gizmos from the bar and close the bar. I can then put them anywhere I want on the desktop.

 

[Sam25]

Originally posted by: armstrda

Originally posted by: jalaram
Vista Sidebar?

Yahoo Widgets (aka Konfabulator) has an amazing collection of widgets and is available for Mac and PC (for most widgets).

Is Yahoo Widgets any better with system resources? I used it about 2 - 3 years ago, and it was way too processor and memory intensive just to have simple widgets (clock, battery gauge, performance indicator, etc).

Yes, happened to me as well...hogs memory. Desktop Sidebar is much lighter.

 

[techs]

The best one I found is multimeter for Vista Sidebar.
Uses little resources. Gives you dual core cpu usage and memory usage.
Here:
http://gallery.live.com/liveIt...7fc18e0825b1&bt=1&pl=1

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: techs
The best one I found is multimeter for Vista Sidebar.
Uses little resources. Gives you dual core cpu usage and memory usage.
Here:
http://gallery.live.com/liveIt...7fc18e0825b1&bt=1&pl=1

This is the one I use. With speedfan installed, it also shows temps.

 

[jalaram]

Originally posted by: Sam25

Originally posted by: armstrda

Originally posted by: jalaram
Vista Sidebar?

Yahoo Widgets (aka Konfabulator) has an amazing collection of widgets and is available for Mac and PC (for most widgets).

Is Yahoo Widgets any better with system resources? I used it about 2 - 3 years ago, and it was way too processor and memory intensive just to have simple widgets (clock, battery gauge, performance indicator, etc).

Yes, happened to me as well...hogs memory. Desktop Sidebar is much lighter.

I've used it for years and I never noticed it being a hog. But then, I usually used it on Xeons at work with lots of ram.