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Desktop Gadgets and Widgets to Assist Programmers


Does the collective genius here know of any Sidebar Gadgets, or Dashboard Widgets that help developers do their work? Tasks like:

  • The ability to quickly look up functions/methods
  • Class descriptions
  • Stackoverflow questions filtered by a specific group of tags

You name it.

I'm desperately looking for a reason to use Vista's Sidebar, and I would love to do so in a way that I create a more productive environment, and helps me in my day-to-day tasks.


Solution

  • One of the few that I actually use is Activity Tracker. I like (sometimes have-to) keep track of my time on various projects & support tasks -- I pealed this gadget off the sidebar and dropped it on my 2nd monitor in the corner -- now, an easy click and I'm off one task and onto the next -- the web interface even graphs the time/projects.

    Would love to see some more useful gadgets for sure.