You might already be familiar with widgets from your iPhone or Android phone—interactive panels that are something in between shortcut icons and full apps. Using these widgets, you can complete tasks ...

Internet has become such an indispensable resource that it’s truly hard to imagine how we ever got along without it. These days nearly any type of information is as close as a Web site or ...

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Fresh options in Windows 11 25H2 let you get fancy with the screen that appears before you log in to your PC and after you ...

Back in the day, Mac OS X had a dedicated Dashboard for widgets, where you could add all sorts of nifty little interactive utilities. With the release of macOS Mojave in 2018, Apple finally laid the ...

Christmas is the most awaited festival of the year for many, and it is natural to start a countdown when it is around the corner. Here is a list of the best free Christmas Countdown apps and widgets ...

You may have heard that Windows 7 widgets and other desktop gadgets could go the way of the dodo in Windows 8. According to Microsoft, you shouldn’t even be using desktop gadgets in Windows 7 or Vista ...

The widgetsphere is roughly divided into two camps. There are desktop widgets like Apple Dashboard Widgets, Windows Gadgets, and Yahoo Widgets that act as standalone mini-apps that pull in data from ...

This device is the winner of a CES Innovation Award, which might be bullshit. The WidgetStation takes the desktop out of desktop widgets. It is essentially an LCD display with touch-sensitive buttons, ...

If you have been paying close attention to Apple devices lately, you’ll notice that widgets are back on the home screen. All of Apple’s major OS updates of late have been focused on widgets. Apple is ...

Mesa Dynamics today announced the public beta release of Amnesty Generator, a free utility for Mac OS X that converts any Google Web page Gadget into a Dashboard widget. Earlier this week, Google ...