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August 30, 2007 6:00 PM

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So yeah, Trailer Park obviously needs some work but we think it's a good enough idea to stick with. Obviously in the future we'd like to just have an area set up specifically to just go through all the zillions of trailers out there.

Wind power is blowin up!
P2P-2-ISP Peace Pipe
New iPods incoming
Sony ditches Connect
Blogger storm!

Lastly, have you seen my nukes?

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August 30, 2007 6:09 PM

er'd

anybody use those widget things in windows? the sidebars that show time, weather, calendar, etc?

i'm wondering if there are any good ones out there that don't rape resources.

url's to the pages would be sweet :D
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- Jonathan
  
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  August 30, 2007 6:11 PM
  
  http://gallery.live.com/results.aspx?bt=1&pl=1&st=5 is the pages I browsed.
- CoRDS
  
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  August 30, 2007 6:15 PM
  
  i use the weather one, a news one and some desktop pic one. hdd space and cpu usage on a spare monitor plugged into my vista Media center box.
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  August 30, 2007 6:17 PM
  
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- festivalman
  
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  August 30, 2007 6:19 PM
  
  So far all the glitzy features of vista regular and ultimate have turned out to be almost a complete bust. The ultimate extras never materialized, and the side bar content that's available never happened. The widgets for the mac and for both platforms on yahoo widgets/konfabulator far exceed the quality of the crappy stuff on Microsoft's site.
- ArtilleryMarker
  
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  August 30, 2007 6:20 PM
  
  samurize? www.samurize.com I think.
- abrasion
  
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  August 30, 2007 6:46 PM
  
  It molested the performance of my 1gb single core laptop, totally destroyed it - although they were cool the hit wasn't worth it.
  Yet MacOX did it fine on the same laptop but that's another story.
  
  Seriously if you wanna use them, 3gb ram, quad core (no, I'm not kidding)
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    August 30, 2007 6:48 PM
    
    Oh are you talking about the terrible one implimented in Vista? I use Konfabulator from Yahoo, it was much more like Mac OS, it was actually useful but slow - the Vista one, just disable it.
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      August 30, 2007 7:07 PM
      
      nope, don't have vista.
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        August 30, 2007 7:09 PM
        
        Well then I'd assume you are using that jonfabulator thing, which is really pretty cool but like I said - you need a MONSTER PC (in my opinion)
- Magus
  
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  August 30, 2007 6:47 PM
  
  fuck that shit, i use www.google.com/ig I AM ALL THAT IS MAN
- flasher 907
  
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  August 30, 2007 6:47 PM
  
  i found them fun to play with for 30 mins and then I always get rid of them. *shrug*
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  August 30, 2007 6:49 PM
  
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- Johnny Law
  
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  August 30, 2007 7:01 PM
  
  Nothing really useful that I've found. Weather and stock ticker are OK. The RDP client widgets might be cool if you do a lot of remote-desktopping. Trying to find a good news ticker but it seems like they get hosed by the narrow width of the sidebar.
- tbreffni
  
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  August 30, 2007 7:05 PM
  
  The two most useful ones I've found for the Vista sidebar are upcoming meetings in Outlook, and Live Messenger contact list.
- nadasurf2
  
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  August 30, 2007 7:07 PM
  
  some cool dude made this to monitor game servers: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=0bb51a58-ad01-456d-ad0c-295368c51104&bt=1
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  August 30, 2007 7:08 PM
  
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