Monday, April 23, 2012

Aztaro Reviews: Microsoft Gadgets [Side Bar]

This one is brought up because I don't have much time do to classes and I forgot what I was going to actually review

We can review Microsoft Side Bar or Microsoft Gadgets [believe either name works]
This is as well as another stock program used in Windows 7 with little -ahem- gadgets that are set on the side of your screen. Some of the default gadgets are clocks, calendars, picture viewer, etc... Though they have some luxury of saving you time with looking at your stocks or the computer's performance without having to google them or checking them yourself. They also have some neat games, a piano and I believe some other neat things too but others you'll have to download from others or make yourself. Unless your fluent with C++ or any coding for computers you'll be stuck with the default items of weather checking and clocks. These can save time with looking things up on your desktop and if you down load the right gadget you can make life simpler in the way of your choosing. Though it is named Side bar it doesn't live up to that name with it's repositioning anywhere on your monitor.

Personal Review [Like I said, skip this if you don't care]: I only use it for the clock because, like I said earlier, my taskbar is on auto-hide so I can't see my clock at all times and so the clock benefits me but I have yet to see a good gadget, I'm not saying it's bad but most of the gadgets I find don't appeal to what I do or are thought out enough to do what I'd like. I'm not saying it's bad but I think it was an experiment that Microsoft wanted to try.

This is good for convenience but it was brought up to suddenly with no user friendly way of a "make your own gadget" feature. This has some basic things that can help but not that thought through. This is a "if you need it" kind of program not a "I want it because it does stuff".

Sorry this is so short and not so thought out, time crunched and not prepared, see ya

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