Software Hot 100 │ Entries 39 - 20

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If there’s one essential gadget it’s our very own Windows Vista Magazine Sidebar gadget. Keep up with the latest news from the site and even use the search function to find answers quickly.

Everyone loves Wikipedia so it makes sense to have a search facility on your desktop. The Wikipedia gadget is an easy route to a world of information, and it’s small and discreet to boot.

Watch The eBay Auction Watch gadget provides the easiest way to keep track of items you’re watching from the comfort of your Windows Vista desktop, meaning you’ll never miss that crucial bargain again.

A comprehensive system-monitoring tool, this gadget gives you accurate read-outs for system performance from your processor, RAM and hard drive, and even provides a handy clock.

This weather gadget brings the power and accuracy of the Met Office to your Sidebar, with quick reference forecasts for the next four days, not just what’s happening outside now.

If you’re a rail commuter, then you need the National Rail Gadget. You specify your local station and it can tell you whether trains are delayed up to 15 minutes before
departure, which can save you time on the platform.

An essential gadget for laptop users, the Battery Monitor is a great looking gauge which tells you exactly how much juice you have left to keep you going.

Control your PC’s volume from the Sidebar rather than using fiddly buttons, and it looks great, too. No more messing around with the tiny toolbar icon.

This gadget lets you drag and drop folders of images to the Sidebar, and it uploads them to Facebook for you, eliminating the laborious process.

Publish straight to the Blogger.com service from this Sidebar application, making quick and immediate blogging actually possible.

Inline Search takes your browser to new heights, with the ability to look for text in real time and highlight instances. This means you’ll instantly know if the item you’re looking for is on the page, eliminating wasted searches.

Price Free
Web www.ieforge.com/InlineSearch

Restoration is a freeware program that enables you to restore deleted files from the Recycle Bin or flash cards that have either been formatted or corrupted. In short, this program can really save you a lot of pain.

Price Free
Web www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

GoToMyPC lets you access your files from anywhere with an internet connection, so you’ll never be without those files. Not only can you browse files, but you can control your desktop, and even use programs not on your local PC.

Price £11.99 per month
Web www.gotomypc.com

The eagerly awaited successor to the brilliant Internet Explorer 7 brings sharing, translating and plenty of plug-ins to the fore, and is available in beta now.

Price Free
Web www.microsoft.com

μTorrent made such a great impression when it launched that BitTorrent made it the default application, and it still remains the best torrent client.

Price Free
Web www.utorrent.com

Free open source encryption has made TrueCrypt a popular choice with readers who want to keep their documents safe when on the move.

Price Free
Web www.truecrypt.org

When it comes to disc partitioning, Norton PartitionMagic is one of the simplest ways to begin splitting your drives, and start switching between operating systems.

Price £49.98
Web www.symantec.com

Don’t bother filling out endless forms and password fields when a robot can do all the hard work for you. RoboForm does this automatically and hundreds of our readers say they couldn’t live without it.

Price £29.95
Web www.roboform.com

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