ImageGen is an indispensible image utility available as a package for umbraco from www.percipientstudios.com. Here are a couple basic xslt scripts for simple tasks using ImageGen.
This package for umbraco4 creates an easy to use setup of doctypes, macros, and xslt to quickly store snippets--such as youTube links or frequently reused bits of content--to be inserted into pages or templates via macros.
Here are some older articles.
The Blister[WS] series of gadgets, Blister[CPU], Blister[RAM], and Blister[HDD] are some of the first and still best gadgets available for Windows Sidebar
Each of them comes ready made with dozens of images you can mix and match for hundreds of combinations to fit any desktop or personal style. Using your own images to construct the meters is a matter of drag and drop, and switching between the provided images is a button-click.
Pocket TV Browser is a popular tv-listings application from DoubleBit Software that uses XMLTV formatted xml. Unfortunately it is no longer supported, and changes to the xml schema have hidden bits of information from users. TVTweak rearranges the data so that all the information in the listings xml is exposed to users of Pocket TV Browser.
umbraco CMS is a great open-source content management system. It is powerful, and can be complex, so I started taking notes.