{"id":5163,"date":"2008-04-28T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/top-5-xp-widgets-to-make-life-easier\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:31:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:31:41","slug":"top-5-xp-widgets-to-make-life-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-5-xp-widgets-to-make-life-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 XP widgets to make life easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/widget-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Widget logo\" align=\"right\" \/>Widgets have added a whole new dimension to Windows desktops allowing you to track and stay informed about your favourite sites and news sources more easily than ever before. If you&#8217;ve never tried one then widgets are basically downloadable tools that provide services such as showing you the latest news, the current weather, the time, a calendar, a map program, a calculator, a language translator among many other things. Windows Vista has incorporated widgets into its very make up automatically providing you with a calendar and clock widget as standard with options to add many more. Mac fans will be keen to point out that widgets have been a part of their world for a long time already as Cyril <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/top-10-widgets-for-your-mac\/\">highlighted<\/a> a while back. XP users however have had to wait until developers and software giants such as Yahoo have slowly released widgets that work on XP&#8217;s desktop but it&#8217;s been worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 5 XP widgets from Yahoo that you might not know about but should definitely check out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vista-sidebar-xp.en.softonic.com\/\">Vista Sidebar XP<\/a> &#8211; Get Vista&#8217;s widget sidebar on Windows XP for free<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/widgets.yahoo.com\/widgets\/picture-frame\"><br \/>\nPicture Frame<\/a> &#8211; The quickest way to upload your favourite photos to Flickr<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/widgets.yahoo.com\/widgets\/yahoo-widget-gallery\">Yahoo! Widget Gallery<\/a> &#8211; Get updated with the latest Yahoo widget releases<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainlendar.net\/cms\/index.php\">Rainlender<\/a> &#8211; Fully customisable desktop calendar to make you better organised<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stardock.com\/products\/desktopx\/\">Desktop X<\/a> &#8211; Still haven&#8217;t found what you&#8217;re looking for? Then make your own widget with this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Widgets have added a whole new dimension to Windows desktops allowing you to track and stay informed about your favourite sites and news sources more easily than ever before. If you&#8217;ve never tried one then widgets are basically downloadable tools that provide services such as showing you the latest news, the current weather, the time, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-5-xp-widgets-to-make-life-easier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top 5 XP widgets to make life easier&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336159,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions\/336159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}