Instacalc Vista Sidebar gadget
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I just noticed that the guy behind InstaCalc recently released a Vista 
Sidebar gadget. All the other calculator gadgets I’ve seen are horrible with a terrible UI and often requires me to explicitly use a mouse to enter in my calculations.
The Instacalc gadget is neat because answers are computed on the fly after every keypress. Just like it’s bigger brother website, it supports variable assignment (”x=5; y=4; x+y”)and easy use of units and conversions. (”1GB + 4MB” gives me 1,077,936,128).
So far the only area of improvement is somehow allow hotkey activation, but I don’t think the Sidebar framework allows gadgets to do that, so I can’t fault the author for that. I’m shocked this gadget is only rated at 2.5 out of 5 stars.
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31 Aug 07 at 10:24 pm
It deserves a better rating so everyone go and rate that calc and celebrate the computer for eons to come..
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4 Jan 08 at 8:35 pm
I use this calculator daily…you’re right dude..the best Vista widget by far.
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20 Feb 08 at 6:17 pm
I love this gadget and it is definitely un-derated because it is simple and it is definitely a 3.5 or higher.
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23 Jun 08 at 6:16 pm
I have got to try this. I only use the Notes widget. I just use the classic calculator up to now. =)
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