10 plus must have Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets

images posted directly on the page
with the comments about each image below the image

no clicks involved just scrolling

is that it takes a while to load each image. I usually don't get past the first three or four shots before I give up. Geez, I didn't even get past the first four in the 'Sexy Comicon' gallery.

You baited and switched us. I, too, thought I would find something of value here. Instead, we get a gallery of the most useless MS gadgets. Really, picture puzzle is a must have? And before you ask me to do better, I am not a writer for TechRepublic. I didn't volunteer this drivel, and you lose your right to point the finger back at your readers by the mere fact that you posted this under the guise of being some authority on the subject. If we already knew the must have gadgets, we wouldn't be reading the article...er, slideshow.

...I too thought it was recent from the fact that it was highlighted in that email last month. Sometimes a person just reads the content and takes it at face value - TR seems to be suffering from a lack of editorial control, or something, what with the oddly random emails showing up old columns, frequent and irritating typos, and inability to jump to the recent posts in these comments.

Before the last revamp of this website, all posts were displayed, and those made in the last 24 hours were flagged with a "new" banner or tag in the corner. Now that it's been prettied up, you have to go into your profile somewhere and set up your preferences to display all posts (which still only shows a maximum no - I think 50 - per page) and there is no way to highlight the newer ones. So when an email arrives telling you there have been new posts to xyz column you have to do a manual search - per page - for each of the new posts listed; otherwise you have to re-read each post until you spot one that you haven't seen before. Seems TR's goal here is to annoy readers as much as possible.

So, let's understand correctly, to kill Clippie, all you had to do was
- find website
- download
- install
- spend x minutes shooting holes in him.
At which point he was still there, but wounded.
OR
- right-click
- "Hide"

Nah, why do it the easy way when there's an app for that

I suggest that YOU go to the link you posted and try to find the 10 gadgets your article listed. It looks like a big part of the problem is that the article was apparently written in mid-2010. I suppose they published it then because there are comments that old, but Tech Republic included that same article in one of its emails in late-2011 by which time many of your gadgets had been abandoned by Microsoft.