Best sidebar software for free download

SmartShopper helps you make better-informed shopping decisions by recognizing what you're looking to buy, scanning thousands of alternative e-commerce and travel vendors for other offers, and displaying them alongside any shopping or travel website.
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Watson by Intellext - intelligent search tool understands the context of what you are working on and automatically finds and delivers relevant results from the web, news and shopping sites, blogs, your desktop, even enterprise information systems.
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Windows Organizer with sidebar, calendar, reminders, events, tasks, zip tools, template management, password manager, url manager, rss feed display folders, pop mail cleaner and other tools. It helps control of your documents and applications.
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OfficeMDI Tabs enables you to quickly implement tabbed MDI interfaces in your VB applications. Supported styles include .NET, Office 2003, OneNote, and more. No coding is required, and it is very lightweight (70kb).
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ExplorerBarXP™ is an ActiveX control that accurately emulates the ExplorerBar control found in Microsoft Windows XP. An explorer bar provides a way to display multiple commands or pieces of information to your users, grouped into logical sections.

With ExplorerBarXP, your applications can have a modern looking, visually appealing way of presenting choices to your users. Windows XP uses them in Explorer to present options relating to files and folders, pictures, searches, and many other common tasks.

Everything about the control is customizable, including colors, fonts, background pictures, and more. We've rewritten version 2.0 from scratch to be the most customizable and most capable explorer bar component on the market. Download the demo, and you'll see that we succeeded in this task.

This control can be setup to use Visual Styles (including third-party styles) under Windows XP, as well as emulated Visual Styles and 'Classic' styles under all versions of windows, even older ones like Windows 98 and NT 4.0. ExplorerBarXP also fully supports the Unicode, so you can use international characters (Japanese, Russian, Arabic, etc.) in your programs.

Some of ExplorerBarXP's Features:

* XP style interface
* The only ExplorerBar control for VB that supports 3rd party Visual Styles
* 32-bit icons and PNG images (on all versions of Windows)
* Supports multiple image sizes (up to 48x48)
* All colors and fonts are customizable
* Background pictures and variable opacity
* Supports embedded controls
* Expandable/collapsible/closeable groupings
* Multiline captions
* Sortable
* Indentations for treeview style
* Balloon style tooltips
* Unicode support
* Adjustable margins
* Link, text, control, and picture TaskItems
* Animations and special effects
* Ideal for your VB applications
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Not long time ago, Google presented their Google Desktop system. This freeware package builds a searchable index of your local files and allows you to search through them as you normally search for pages in Google. Google Desktop comes with a great sidebar. This floating panel includes such magnificent utilities as a headline news viewer, RSS and Atom monitor, Gmail and Outlook new mail notifiers, and more. Millions of users fell in love with it from the very first moment. So did I.

But, in fact, it was just the beginning. The real value of the Google sidebar is in its pluggable architecture. Software developers started to make even more tools that you can integrate into your Google Desktop. Let me tell you about one of these plug-ins...

Most Google Desktop tools are involved with the monitoring of on-line resources. However, you shouldn't forget about your own PC's health. Without a working hard drive, all remote resources will be totally inaccessible. HDDLife is a freeware plugin for Google Desktop that constantly monitors a vast range of your hard drive's parameters. By collecting statistical data from your drive operations, HDDLife can forecast hardware problems. It will alert you when your drive is close to a crash. This allows you to prevent the loss of your precious files. You will always know your drive's condition by taking a quick look at Google Sidebar. HDDLife draws green, yellow and red icons which indicate the condition of your drives at the moment.

Did you know that hard drives are quite sensitive to heat? A rise in temperature by 10 degrees may halve your drive's life expectancy. HDDLife helps you quickly diagnose heating problems and prolong the life of your hardware. In addition to the status icons for each drive shown on Google Sidebar, you will also see your hard drive temperature.

Did I mention that it is free? Yes, simply download and use it.
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