{"id":8653,"date":"2005-09-13T13:39:55","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T20:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/09\/13\/windows-sidebar.html"},"modified":"2005-09-13T13:39:55","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T20:39:55","slug":"windows_sidebar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/13\/windows_sidebar.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows Sidebar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Um &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.furrygoat.com\/2005\/09\/windows_sidebar.html\" target=\"_blank\">yay?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windows Sidebar ssems to be a Windows Vista place for Windows Gadgets to reside, Windows Gadgets being little mini-applets.  Which sounds a lot like the latest Apple OS&#8217;s whiz-bang coolness, though I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s different.  But, frankly, I wasn&#8217;t filled with Mac Envy from that, either.  I don&#8217;t feel a compelling need for a clock, a stock ticker, a reminder window, or other sidebar things that &#8230; well &#8230; I already have in the old-fashioned WinXP interface.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, cool, it looks spiffy and fun and all that, but &#8230; well &#8230; I really don&#8217;t see anything there that has me salivating for Gadgets.  Or Windows Sidebar.  Or, frankly, Windows Vista.  I won&#8217;t turn them down, but I&#8217;m not counting the hours, either.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me how, as an end-user (and one with a fair amount of experience in customizing his personal computing environment, often to the irk of his local IT folk), this is going to make my life more fun, more exciting, or better.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randyrants.com\/2005\/09\/pdc_update.html\" target=\"_blank\">Randy<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um &#8230; yay? Windows Sidebar ssems to be a Windows Vista place for Windows Gadgets to reside, Windows Gadgets being little mini-applets. Which sounds a lot like the latest Apple&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11980,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/19\/making_the_upgrade.html","url_meta":{"origin":8653,"position":0},"title":"Making the upgrade","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Dec-07 7:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"A great review on upgrading from Vista to Windows XP. 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I really like the convenience (esp. at the office) of...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging - Technical&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging - Technical","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogging-technical"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49306,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/21\/windows-10-free-for-all.html","url_meta":{"origin":8653,"position":4},"title":"Windows 10 free-for-all?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Jan-15 7:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm actually quite happy with Win7 at the moment, but a free upgrade to Windows skipping-9-right-to-10? That might be tempting, if my hardware will handle it. Windows 10 free for all Windows 8.1 and 7 users for first year after release Microsoft is thinking of \"Windows as a service.\" View\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7588,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/30\/naming_windows.html","url_meta":{"origin":8653,"position":5},"title":"Naming Windows","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 30-Jan-05 4:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Micro$oft has agreed that if it names the Windows Media Player-less version of Windows \"Windows Wimpy\" (okay, actually \"Windows Reduced Media Edition\"), it might, um, discourage folks from buying it....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hi-Tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}