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From here you can view gadgets in a number of different categories By Google, New, Finance, Technology, Communication, and so on ; click the Add button next to a gadget to add it to your sidebar. Selecting new gadgets for the sidebar. To remove any gadget from the sidebar, click the down arrow in that gadget's title bar, and then select Remove. You can always restore the Gadget by clicking the Add button at the top of the sidebar, if you like.

In the sidebar, any gadget can be displayed at any height, or collapsed to just its title bar. Making a gadget taller or shorter is a simple matter of dragging the top border up or down with your mouse. Collapsing the gadget entirely is done by clicking the gadget's down arrow, and then selecting Collapse. You can rearrange the gadgets in your sidebar in any order.

It's a dynamic process; just grab the gadget's title bar with your mouse and drag it into a new position. The other gadgets rearrange themselves to make room for the moved gadget. Most gadgets have an expanded view, which you display by clicking the left arrow in the gadget's title bar.

This expands the gadget to the left, where in most cases , more options are available than in the standard gadget.

Using the expanded view is also a necessity when you have the gadget collapsed. For example, Figure The Photos gadget in expanded view. Individual gadgets can also be undocked from the sidebar. When you click the down arrow in the gadget title bar and then select Undock from Sidebar, the gadget is moved from the sidebar to its own window on the desktop.

To redock a gadget, click the gadget's down arrow and select Dock to Sidebar. An undocked gadget. Commentary: Gadgets And Widgets The concept of putting content modules on your desktop didn't start with Google Desktop. The most recent implementation of this concept is Apple's Dashboard, which lets you add a variety of "widgets" to the Mac desktop.

It's proven very popular. On the Windows side, the widget concept was adopted by Konfabulator, which was recently purchased by Yahoo! Like the Apple Dashboard, Yahoo!

Widgets can be placed anywhere on your computer desktop; each widget is a separate mini-application that floats above the desktop, ready for your use.

Into this fray comes the Google Desktop sidebar. Unlike the Apple Dashboard and Yahoo! Widgets, Google's gadgets are by default docked onto a sidebar that sits to the right side of the desktop.