Description

Play a Pong clone with this Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget. It's difficult, but possible to win. Concentrate!

About Pong

Pong is a video game released originally as a coin-operated arcade game by Atari Inc. on November 29, 1972. Pong is based on the sport of table tennis (or “ping pong”), and named after the sound generated by the circuitry when the ball is hit. The word Pong is a registered trademark of Atari Interactive, while the term “pong” is used to describe the genre of “bat and ball” video games. Pong is often regarded as the world’s first video arcade game, but Computer Space by Nutting Associates had been launched a year earlier in 1971. Pong was the first video game to achieve widespread popularity in both arcade and home console versions, and launched the initial boom in the video game industry. The popularity of Pong led to a successful patent infringement lawsuit from the makers of an earlier video game for the Magnavox Odyssey. Pong is a first generation video game, a term used to describe the video game industry between 1972 and 1977.

Description

This is currently a simple gadget to show Azureus's current total Download and Upload speed in the Vista Sidebar. It uses the HTML Web UI plugin to get its details. Azureus is the popular Java based Bit torrent client. It supports username and pssword as well as a configureable refresh rate. In the flyout it has the top 15 torrents being downloaded and their % complete.

About Azureus Sidebar Gadget

Azureus Vuze (formerly Azureus) is a BitTorrent client. Like other BitTorrent clients, it is used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol, a mechanism for peer-to-peer file sharing over a network. Azureus is written in Java programming language.

In 2003, the core developers of Azureus formed a company called Vuze, Inc. (formerly Azureus, Inc.) Vuze, Inc. offers legal downloads of content over the BitTorrent network.

The program’s logo is the Blue Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates azureus). The Azureus name was given to the project by co-creator Tyler Pitchford, who uses the Latin names of poison dart frogs as codenames for his development projects.

Azureus was first released in June 2003 at SourceForge.net, mostly to experiment with the Standard Widget Toolkit from Eclipse. It is now one of the most popular BitTorrent clients. Released under the GNU General Public License, Azureus is free software.

Description

Start, pause or stop the torrent you want from your Vista Sidebar using this uTorrent sidebar gadget. View stats for each torrent seperatly, and view all files of the torrent. **Set Up** Make sure you have µTorrent running on your pc or a remote pc. Than enable web interface in µTorrent by going to preferences -> avanced -> Web UI After you've enabled the web interface, simply set the username, password, ip/url and port in the settings and the gadget will start to diplay you stats. **This gadget is a modified and extended version of the azureus gadget by ljames28**

About uTorrent Vista Sidebar Gadget

µTorrent (also microTorrent or uTorrent) is a freeware, closed source, BitTorrent client for Microsoft Windows written in C++ and localized for many different languages. It is designed to use minimal computer resources while offering functionality comparable to larger BitTorrent clients such as Azureus or BitComet.

The program has received consistently good reviews for its feature set, performance, stability, and support for older hardware and versions of Windows. It has been in active development since its first release in 2005. Its name is commonly abbreviated “µT” or “uT”.

On December 7, 2006, µTorrent developer Ludvig Strigeus and BitTorrent, Inc. CEO Bram Cohen announced that BitTorrent, Inc. had acquired µTorrent. BitTorrent, Inc. has employed the code as the basis of version 6.0 of the BitTorrent client which today, in fact, makes it a re-branded version of µTorrent.

Description

Name your victim and start the torture! Voodoo Doll Sidebar Gadget.

About Voodoo Dolls

How voodoo dolls became a means of casting a spell on an individual is unknown, but like ouija boards and tarot cards, they’re popular outside of the spiritual traditions from which they arose.

Description

Type a sentence and press enter to hear your computer talk. Say It! is the wildly popular gadget that allows you to perform text-to-speech right from your Vista Sidebar. Download the next evolution of the gadget that countless thousands have already enjoyed. Version 2.0 provides even more features to help you waste your day.

About Vista Narrator Text-to-Speech

Narrator is a text-to-speech program (or basic screen reader) that is built into Windows Vista. Narrator reads menus without leaving the active window. Individuals who use Narrator will also find a more pleasant, natural sounding voice in Windows Vista.