Description: It helps you to stay on top of traffic situations, you can decide when to go home from work without having to explicitly go check. It's uncanny how accurate it is, even on lesser traveled highways that are not typically covered by other online traffic maps. Select a nearby city from the picklist. Click on and Drag the map to your town. Done. You cant tell the difference between non-monitored roads and heavy traffic. It marks the fast/slow traffic areas with easy to see colors.

 Description: This brilliant gadget shows you next 3 to 5 upcoming outlook appointments from your MS outlook 2007 calendar in the sidebar. You can double click the appointments to open up in the outlook. It has same theme as MS Office 2007 theme.

This gadget only works with Outlook 2007. To make it work with outlook 2010 beta, Open up "C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\OutlookAppointmentsGadget.gadget\en-US\js\" where XXXXX is the name of the user account. Open "outlook.vbs" with word pad. Change the two occurrences of "12" to "14" (line 22 and 42). Save and load the gadget.

Author Notes: If you are receiving security prompts, you can turn off the option to see the appointment organizer.