Desktop Sidebar & AIM add-on
22 12 2004
In past few days, I’ve been playing with some add-on for Windows XP and AIM.
I’ve installed a program called Desktop Sidebar which gives you extra features that Windows XP doesn’t support however they claimed that future Windows (Longhorn) will come its own one in 1-2 years from today.
Anyway, I was able to add analog clock in it to make it feel like “home” and many another features that comes with it. It also comes with My Picture slideshow which I enjoyed looking at it occasionally.
Other things that come with it, I like to watch status on CPU, network, hard drive, and memory charts and help me recognized which programs that cause high memory and heavily using hard drive. It also support RSS feeds (news or blog), Outlook emails and search engine box.
There’s plenty of add-on to it too but I am not interested in most of them but you should check it out anyway. Go to http://www.desktopsidebar.com/
About AIM, I’ve been using old add-on “DeadAIM” for my AOL Instant Messenger for long time. I really enjoyed it but unfortunately, they started charge for newer version along newer version of AIM too. I decided to give another add-on a try. I’ve tried several programs such as Middle Man, FunPal, AIM+ and AIMulation. (Note: I only tested all freeware based programs)
So far, I like AIMulation – its pretty good plus it meet what I was looking for. Two things that important to me are logging all conversations (for my records) and tabbed features. I can see it’s not perfect but its good enough for now. It also supports skin – I’ve changed to different and it looks real nice.
Go to http://www.aimulation.com
To take a look at larger snapshot of my Windows XP with AIMulation and Desktop Sidebar – click here.
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