TechRadar Gadget

TechRadar Gadget is a desktop gadget made for Windows Vista and 7, which provides the latest news from the TechRadar.com website. You can read summaries and full-length articles straight from the tool, without having to reset to a web browser.

Keep track of news on TechRadar

It's automatically synced to TechRadar at startup and shows the latest four news pieces in a list, displaying their name and date of publish. The number of shown stories can be switched to six, eight or ten per page, while the remaining pages can be explored until you find an interesting subject.

View summaries and full-length articles

Clicking on an article reveals its summary in a slightly inconvenient manner, forcing you to scroll using horizontal and vertical bars to learn all information and view pictures.
On the other hand, you can ask TechRadar Gadget to display the whole article in a large and more comfortable window which resembles a simple and elegant web browser, complete with a search tool, search Clicking a popout button on the upper-left corner of the frame launches your default web browser with the current article's page.

Configure gadget settings

The widget is capable of updating the RSS feed at the given interval between 5 and 60 minutes. It can also auto-scroll the RSS feed at a specific time (10 seconds to 20 minutes). Moreover, you can set the default search type to website or product reviews, disable search history (particularly if you share the PC with other users), as well as reset options to default.

Evaluation and conclusion

It worked smoothly in our evaluation, without causing the OS to hang, crash or indicate errors. System resources were minimally used.
To conclude, TechRadar Gadget features surprisingly rich options for reading the latest news articles on the TechRadar website.