Gadgets are mini-applications that live on your desktop and deliver games, live webcams, traffic maps, and other interactive, up-to-the-minute tools that you didn’t even know existed! Windows Sidebar is a pane on the side of the Windows Vista desktop that organizes gadgets and makes them easy to access. Customize Windows Sidebar to suit how you want to interact with it. Move gadgets off the Windows Sidebar and place them anywhere on your desktop. Gadgets powered by Google are miniature objects made by Google users that offer cool and dynamic content that can be placed on any page on the web. Gadgets might come in handy when you're at work (to-do list, currency converter, calendar), at school (calculator, Wikipedia, translation tool), or just passing time (news, blogs, games). You can add gadgets you like to your Google personalized homepage and, if you have Google Desktop installed, you can also add gadgets to your computer's desktop. The Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly known as Konfabulator) is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather. Amazon Search