Sticks, the new Widgets


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This utility is pretty cool, it adds tabs to the top of your screen that lets you access things like a Notepad, RSS feeds, Quick Launcher, Internet Browser, Calculator, Explorer (with full drag and drop support) and many more.  After installing Stick I found myself removing widgets from my Google Sidebar because I was able to replace several widgets with “Sticks” that were better because they get out of the way (roll up into the top of your screen).  If you have ever used Spring Folders this is similar but more useful. 

Before I had a Craigslist RSS feed that I kept in my Sidebar because I wanted to see all the latest items up for sale in real time.  Now I have a Craigslist “Stick” that I can open at a moments notice freeing up space for another widget.  I also have a notepad and todo list “Stick” that I can open at any time and is accessible easily even when my screen is full of windows because a Stick rides above all other applications.  Whats really cool is when you have a maximized application Stick doesn’t impede on toolbars or take up valuable screen real estate.  Where the tabs live is where the titlebar of the window is so now instead of wasted space you get a useful tools. 

On top of all this the tabs are highly customizable and can be customized to meet your needs.  Can’t find a stick that suits your needs build your own with Sticks extensible framework.  This is a must try application.

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January 4, 2008 | Filed Under Freeware 

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2 Responses to “Sticks, the new Widgets”

  1. Gmail in a Tab at the top of your screen on MyAvatars 0.2 January 7th, 2008 3:46 pm

    [...] other day we reviewed Stick for Windows, but we’ve been finding some extra functionality in Stick every day and I thought I would [...]

  2. Kevin Guertin on MyAvatars 0.2 January 9th, 2008 6:21 am

    Nice! But, although I’ll definitely install this on my Windows XP partition, I would love to see something like this for Linux (Ubuntu).

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