For many Vista users, Vista Sidebar is nothing but a useless tool with bunch of worthless gadgets. Well, not all gadgets are useless (although most of them are), if you look deepen into the the Live Gallery, you may actually find a few gadgets that can be useful to you. Vista Sidebar may take up some space on your desktop, so that’s why you must make sure of it. Here is a list of 4 Windows Vista Sidebar’s Gadgets that can help you get thing done much faster on your computer. Trust me, you will not feel like wasting space with these great Vista Sidebar gadgets.
The Magic Folder
If your desktop is overload with all sorts of files all over the place, then The Magic Folder will be helpful. The Magic Folder can reduces clutter on your Windows Vista desktop by helping you categorize and move files from your desktop to the proper locations on your Windows. It’s simple, you just need to drag files to the gadget and the files will be automatically sort into their proper folders, based on the file extension. For example, document files (like doc, xls, ppt, etc) will be placed in the Document folder. However, you can also add/remove file extensions recognized by the gadget and change where these files go. Plus, you can configure to add your own folder locations.
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When it comes to New Year, everyone will try to figure out their New Year resolutions. Today is already January 4 of 2009 and some of you might not yet come out with a single New Year resolution. Some might think that making New Year resolutions are boring. Well, I see you need some fresh and cool idea for resolutions? Try Resolution Randomizer!
Resolution Randomizer is a Microsoft Silverlight application that can helps you create a random resolution. This Silverlight application works just like a slot machine. To get your resolution, you need to type in your name and hit the “RANDOMIZE” button to start the spinning. Here is the result of the spinning for me : Refrain from picking my nose at inappropriate time. LOL!
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Traffic Report
The traffic for December 2008 has increased as compared to November 2008’s traffic. The good news is that over half of the traffic to this blog was contributed by traffic from the search engines. Thanks to a series of Christmas-related blog posts, I am enjoying higher traffic from the search engines which also increased my Google Adsense earning by three fold!
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On my previous post, I have introduced you to 3 best free Windows hardware drivers backup utilities that backup and restore your Windows hardware drivers quickly and easily. This utility is a life saver during the re-installation of your Windows where you can restore Windows drivers with just a few mouse clicks. But before you can backup the hardware drivers, you have to check the Windows Device Manager ( Right-click My Computer, click Properties, go to Hardware tab and click the Device Manager button ) to confirm that all your hardware drivers are working properly. There should not be any label with yellow question mark in your Windows Device Manager.
If there is any label with yellow question mark, in most cases labeled as Unknown Devices, you need to install the right drivers before you can backup the drivers. You can install the drivers from your vendor Driver CD or search for drivers in the manufacturer’s website. But what if you have lost the Driver CD or you have no idea who is the manufacturer of the hardware device? In Windows Vista, you probably can get the right driver for your hardware device via the Windows Update but there is no guarantee because not all device drivers are available in the Windows database.
Well, don’t worry. I am a former part-time technician at a computer shop and I have installed Windows OS more than you do. Even without Driver CD, I can find the correct drivers for almost any hardware devices. How I did it and how can you do the same too? Well, here are 3 best and free methods to find the correct drivers for unknown hardware devices in Windows XP and Vista.
Full list after the jump.
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Want to reduce clutter and saving space on your Firefox web browser, so that you can browse the internet on a perfectly organized, clean and clutter-free Firefox browser? Here is a list of 7 Firefox extensions that keep your Firefox clean, organized and clutter-free plus with minimal interface. All these plugins are compitable with Firefox 3.0.5.
Menu Editor
Menu Editor unclutters context menu in your browser by allowing you to rearrange or remove any menu items from the right-click context menu and also from the main menu bar. (Learn more here)
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Not 1, not 10, not 100, but 1000 plus e-books for you free of charge! But I hope you don’t get very excited yet because this special offers from eLibrary.net is not for everyone but only for bloggers and website owners.1000+ Free eBooks
The e-books do not come free because in exchange for the free e-books, eLibrary wants link back to their site from your blog or website. Simply place a link to eLibrary and the eLibrary package containing over 1000 ebooks is yours for free. You can get the code containing the link here. After adding the code to your blog or website, return to the same page and complete the form to grab your eLibrary package. You will get a link to download all the e-books with total size of 30 MB in a zip file.
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