Weather Monitor is a lightweight and non-obtrusive program that can help you see the current and future weather conditions in your city. The program?s interface resembles many of the Windows Widgets in their simplicity, which means that any type of person is going to be able to use it, no matter their previous experience with the IT world. The main window of the gadget enables you to access a lot of information regarding the weather. Aside from the temperature, you can view the atmospheric pressure, air humidity, visibility (expressed in km), UV index, wind and precipitation. In addition to that, the exact sunrise and sunset hours, and the lunar phase are featured in the application. The main screen also presents a small button that enables you to open the weather forecast for the following four days. The settings panel is quite extensive and enables you to change the city corresponding to received data. From here you can also control the refresh rate (default is 30 minutes) and all the measurement units in which the temperature, pressure, wind speed and visibility are expressed. The interface is also highly customizable, seeing that you can change the icons used in the gadget, along with all the different colors present. Moreover, you can hide or show any piece of information.

Battery Monitor is a small widget that shows on the desktop the current battery details of your notebook, as the name implies. It comes bundled with numerous customization preferences, in order to please even picky users. The interface is based on a small frame that can be moved to any spot on the screen, with the help of the mouse cursor. Plus, you can make it stay on top of other windows and adjust its opacity level. Therefore, Battery Monitor is unintrusive, and you can quickly get a glimpse on battery details while working in other apps. The main frame shows a meter bar and percent level, battery status, remaining time, charge rate and current charge. Battery Monitor also features sound notifications for critical battery levels and full battery mode. It is possible to change the frame size, make it hide when working from the AC adapter, choose the capacity display unit (mWh or mAh), enable animation while charging, as well as specify a power plan for switching to the battery and back to the AC. As far as sounds are concerned, you can enable them when the laptop is plugged or unplugged, disable them when the flyout opens or closes, disable additional sounds, establish the two battery critical levels for sound alerts and select custom WAV files, and more. Sound settings can be restored to their default values. Other options of Battery Monitor let you hide the battery picture, status, remaining time, charge/discharge rate, current charge, power plans, title and copyright marker, as well as select custom colors for any of these fields. The small widget is very light on the system resources, using a minimum amount of CPU and RAM. It has a good response time and delivers accurate information, without causing the OS to hang, crash or pop up error dialogs. All in all, Battery Monitor comprises numerous options and configurable settings to please all types of users.

World Population Monitor is a small software utility that displays information about the global population. This application comes in handy for all users who want to animate their desktop activity by adding a new Windows gadget, or simply want to stay informed about the world?s population. The program is able to render accurate information, and the data is provided by the Census.gov website statistics. World Population Monitor was designed with a single goal in mind, to display the estimated population number. Hence, it doesn?t provide other useful information, such as statistics for each country?s population. Basically, it?s extremely easy to work with this gadget, since there aren?t many configuration settings. This could be only good news for all users who want to view information about the world?s population without having to go through special tutorials, or check a help menu. You can resize the window?s application, and make the application automatically update its information, provided that you have specified the time interval (seconds, minutes, or hours). Moreover, it is possible to change the color for the background, title, legend, population, date and time, error message, version and copyright. If you are not happy with the adjustments applied, you can always go back to the default colors. To sum up, World Population Monitor proves to be a handy Windows gadget that displays information about the world?s population. You don?t need special computer skills to work with this tool, and it?s also light on your system resources.