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  • Planeta Red
    Cómo respaldar los gadgets del escritorio en Windows 7
    Planeta Red
    Muchos usuarios de la última versión de Windows somos fanáticos de los gadgets para el escritorio, esas pequeñas aplicaciones que hacen mucho más amena la interacción con nuestro ordenador, y que además nos permiten personalizar el escritorio de


  • MacBook Air, Windows Phone 7 Top 2011 Gadgets: Farhad Manjoo
    Newser
    (Newser) – Apple may top Slate's gadgets of the year, but don't look for an iPad 2 on its list. No, the best gadget of 2011 was the new-generation MacBook Air, writes Farhad Manjoo. It's small but doesn't "feel compromised


  • Gadgets Week In Review: Windows Of The World
    TechCrunch
    Bryce is a designer at CrunchGear for TechCrunch. Bryce Durbin is an illustrator and designer for print and web. He grew up in Columbus, OH and now lives in Elkader, Iowa with his wife Shannon and their son Link. His portfolio is at brycedurbin.com.


  • Gadget Lab Podcast: Nokia Windows Phones, iOS 5 Newsstand and Google TV
    Wired (blog)
    This week on the Gadget Lab Podcast: The gang talks about Nokia's latest troop deployments in the smartphone battlefield, the Steve Jobs biography, the success of iOS 5's Newsstand app, and a big new update to Google TV set top

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  • 20 Free and Useful Windows Desktop Gadgets
    Tom’s Guide
    By Rico Mossesgeld 5:10 PM - October 17, 2011 Gadgets first debuted on Windows Vista. These small programs remain useful, even though Microsoft withdrew official support for them on Windows 7. They're still a great way to keep useful information at

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  • Gadget failure - overlapping windows and screen size
    iProgrammer
    The news that Microsoft has shut down its Windows Live Gadget store is an interesting milestone in our journey. The gadget is the programming format that never really caught on or perhaps it is just that the concept has been badly mismanaged and its

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  • Waikato Times
    Me and my gadget: Chris Ichter and the Windows Phone 7
    Waikato Times
    Microsoft New Zealand's director of small, midmarket solutions and partners group, Chris Ichter, tells Chris Gardner why the Windows Phone 7, which is about to get a free upgrade to 7.5 "Mango", is his favourite gadget. Without a doubt it's my Windows

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  • The rise and fall of the Windows Desktop Gadget
    InfoWorld
    In a move that took many by surprise, Microsoft dropped support for new Windows Desktop Gadgets. Once hailed (or at least marketed) as a key new feature in Windows Vista, Desktop Gadgets are going the way of the dodo.

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  • GADGET WATCH: Windows Phone Mango
    SmartCompany.com.au
    Microsoft's Windows Phone software has been available for quite a while but as many smart phone owners would know these gadgets only improve with time and multiple software updates. Its newest version, Windows Phone Mango, brings a suite of new

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  • Activate desktop gadgets on Windows
    StartupSmart
    You may have seen some Windows users looking at a clock on their desktop or maybe a calendar or news ticker. Those widgets are built into the OS. They can be quite handy, allowing you to see weather forecasts along with other pieces