From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Yea, there are a huge collection of widgets for OSX doing all sorts of stuff.

All that you've detailed, as well as ftp widgets, tons of other stuff. 
Look on Apple.com for the list, some free, some minimal cost.

I know I've seen the same things from stardock with it's Object Dock, and
other add ons for Windows XP.  Not sure about Win2k though.

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Glenn M.
"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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>> Ah, like OSX Widgets.  I think Stardock and others offer that for
>> existing MS OS's.  Nothing new, really.  More of the "Me
Too" stuff.
>
> Never seen them but these can do rss or grab things like radio stations or
> weather reports. Didn't have this capability on W2K (at least not that I
> know of) so to me it's a vista feature. Not worth the other obnoxious
> things though, now I can't connect to a drive share on an smb video
> server, not sure why yet.
>
> Geo.

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