Lifehacker offered a post about how to use your My Pictures folder as a screensaver in Windows XP. Here are the steps to do that in Vista:

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Spend a few minutes playing Swoop To Nuts. Move the mouse right to swoop down, and left to float up. Go up high to get stars. My high score is 39,220. Use this tip to play the game full screen in Internet Explorer.

Vista comes with a handful of fairly useless gadgets, such as an analog clock (um, there’s a digital clock on the taskbar) and an RSS feed that only shows two or three words from each headline. The good news: you can download more free gadgets from the Windows Live Gallery.
Here’s a filtered list of sidebar gadgets for you to browse. That link’s a little flakey, so if nothing comes up, try refreshing it a few times.
Well, the availability of gadgets is pretty bleak now, but here’s a few I like:

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Most flash games (casual games that open in your browser) assume you have a small monitor with a resolution of 800×600. If you have a higher resolution monitor, the game might be really small in the middle of your screen.

With Internet Explorer 7 (either in Windows Vista or Windows XP), you can zoom the game in to be almost full-screen (after the jump).

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I’m an obsessive photographer. Normally, I sell my pictures, but here are a couple free seasonal pictures you can use as your wallpaper. Just follow these steps:

1. Click the picture you want as your wallpaper so that the larger picture opens in your browser.

2. Right-click the picture, and then click Set as Background.

3. Click Yes when prompted.

I scaled these pictures way down to make them easier to download–my camera (a Canon 5D) takes huge pictures.

One of the first things you notice about Windows Vista is the sidebar. The sidebar has a few default gadgets, one of which can show updates (known as RSS feeds) from most of the websites you visit, including this one. Follow these steps to have update headlines appear on your desktop (more after the jump)

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Via JayIsGames, here’s a seasonal pastime: Winterbells. Click to jump, then bounce off the bells. My high score is 626,940. Add your score to the comments. I love simple games.
Orisinal.com – Winterbells

Proof after the jump.

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