Chris Szurgot's Blog

Everybody keeps praising Konfabulator, including Scoble, but I've found something that suits me better, and has much cleaner integration into my workstation...

It's called Desktop Sidebar, it's meant to mimic the upcoming Sidebar in Longhorn ("Don't wait for Longhorn. Start using Desktop Sidebar today!"), you can set it up to Dock to the side of the screen, and once you do, full screen apps won't overlap it, instead treating it as the boundary of the screen. You can setup mutliple panels, with various purposes (Clock, Messenger, Control winamp or WMP, slide show, weather, even a command prompt to alllow you to quick enter google, or start programs, or dictionary lookups, etc...)

Once you get past some of the initial overload (I don't need a news feed scrolling by every few seconds, or a slideshow changing every 3 seconds), and the fact that it's got some beta issues, it's an awesome program.

Mind you, having Multiple monitors does help <grin>, but then again, having multiple monitors always helps...