VistaJuice

Surely, there aren't that many cool gadgets for Vista's SideBar, at least not as many as for the Mac, but some cool new ones are coming our way.

Using the awesome Virtual Earth technology in Live Search Maps, the new Live Search Maps Traffic Gadget displays the traffic from the major U.S. cities. The traffic information is essentially a layer over Virtual Earth in Live Search Maps. This Gadget harvests the technology and puts it right inside your Windows Sidebar in Windows Vista.

The cool is that it comes from Danovan West, a guy behind that famous Vista Countdown gadget we all saw on gazilion of places during the past two months.

Check out: Danovan West's Site, MSTechToday Article and Main Windows Gadgets's Gallery

Hmm,

According to ZD Net, Microsoft is to issue a long awaited Vista Service Pack 1 next Monday. Surely, this one will be in Beta stage - with final, real SP set for some time in November.

Now, all this might simply not happen - but heck - it's nice to hope for something at least. I long lost hope for any ultimate Extras coming any time soon - so an SP would be nice :)

Via: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=559