Ever since the first WB6 Beta came out I've been toying with the thought of looking for a different sidebar program. I'm currently using Desktop Sidebar and it is a nice program, lots of skins to choose from (many go with the WB's in the WC library) and enough addins to make anyone happy.

With the transparency and blurring capability now in WB6 and seeing how good the Magic Suite looks especially with that Vista Sidebar I'm considering downloading Thoosje Vista Sidebar 2.3. From what I can see it is almost identical in looks to that of the real Vista Sidebar and has a pretty full library of gadgets/widgets to work with.

I've put links for both of the programs below so what I looking for is some honest opinions. If your are a user of either program let me know what you think. The price of both programs is the same, FREE, so any problems with having both on the computer? don't think I would run them at the same time.


Desktop Sidebar 1.05 Build 116 Beta WWW Link

Thoosje Vista Sidebar 2.3 WWW Link