You can easily customize Windows Sidebar to suit your preferred location—always on top or resting below maximized windows. If you don't want to keep your gadgets docked on the Windows Sidebar, you can simply move them off, hide the sidebar, and place them anywhere on your desktop.

In this article we will have a look at an interesting fusion between desktop software and web based software. Having Windows Sidebar gadgets that give you information about your websites proves a very interesting and usefull idea for webmasters.

As a webmaster myself, i am having sometimes trouble keeping up with all different information that are coming from my different websites. Info about users registering, virtuemart sells, forum posts and so on. Having them in one single application in my windows sidebar was a dream come true.