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Softpedia Editor's Review for Thoosje Sidebar (formerly Vista Sidebar)
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A Vista sidebar alternative.
Written by Elena Opris on October 25th, 2011
Doesn't your operating system get boring at times? Especially when you have already explored it and found out everything that i can do.
Try something a little more entertaining in this case.
Vista Sidebar is a sidebar placed on your desktop, and besides the fact that is looks very cool, it has a few fun but also practical features.
We have tested it on Windows 7 x64, and it worked perfectly.
For starters, the sidebar itself comes with a few different skins. You can open them by pressing the small "+" sign in the top of the sidebar, or use the arrows that will instantly guide you through them.
Basically, you can display clocks (with 12 designs to choose from), and gadgets.
Gadgets include displaying sticky notes, calendar, hard disk, run, media player, POP3 mail, picture slider, system uptime, RSS, internet traffic (incoming and outgoing), search toolbar, torrent search toolbar, weather, CPU and RAM usage, calculator, battery information, WiFi, and a Softonic search bar.
Sticky notes have a small window, and you can only write in three pages. The text format is not "word wrap", so if you write longer text, then browsing it becomes an issue.
The hard disk gadget shows used capacity of your hard drive, while POP3 mail shows new mails if you have a POP3, IMAP or Gmail account (but doesn't direct you to it).
The search tool toolbar displays a limited number of search engines that you can look into, and the same principle applies for the torrent search.
The run and calculator gadgets are the same as in Windows.
All in all, Vista Sidebar is a fun software to have displayed so that desktop doesn't feel lonely, but the gadgets themselves are very limited.
Read an in-depth analysis in our professional review for Thoosje Sidebar (formerly Vista Sidebar)
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Thoosje Sidebar (formerly Vista Sidebar) description
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Here are some key features of "Thoosje Sidebar (formerly Vista Sidebar)":
· Gadget saves settings
· RSS Gadget
· Torrent search Gadget
· Google search Gadget
· Progress Dialogs
· More sidebar skins
· System Uptime Gadget
· Windows Media Player Gadget
· Clock Gadgets
· Clock adjustable skins WiFi internet status Gadget
· Recycle bin Gadget
· Picture slider Gadget
· Harddisk Status reader Gadget
· CPU and RAM reader Gadget
· Internet Traffic status Gadget
· Calendar Gadget
· Weather Gadget
· Updater
Requirements:
· Windows Media Player 9 or above
· 500 MHz CPU
· 256 MB RAM
· 64 MB graphic card
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fixed - Clock hands didn't save skin.
· Fixed - Weather Gadget interaction with weather.com.
· Fixed - Weather Gadget endless loop.
· Fixed - Media player Gadget doesn't save position on first load.
· Fixed - Clock skin icons loaded double images.
· Fixed - Media player gadget song pane x,y position.
Users are advised to pay attention while installing this ad-supported application:
· Offers to change the homepage for web browsers installed in the system
· Offers to change the default search engine for web browsers installed in the system
· Offers to download or install software or components (Thoosje Toolbar) that the program does not require to fully function
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