When Apple introduced Notification Center in iOS 5 last summer, jailbreak developers immediately started creating third-party widgets to enhance certain functionalities and create shortcuts for iOS.

While you may only account for about 10 percent of our site’s visitors, we love you no less than your Windows (and Linux!) counterparts. And to show you our gratitude, we’ve released the Grist ...

“The first thing I do when I buy a new Mac is ‘$ killall Dock’ to stop the resource sucking widgets,” Enso Cloud tweeted at me last week. “Does anyone actually use Dashboard widgets?” Chris MacDonald ...

June 8, 2013 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google OS X: Odds are, your Mac's Dashboard has fallen by the wayside in recent years (even though it can be really useful ...

Many of the complaints I’ve heard about Mac OS X Lion is about Dashboard. It now has its own space (virtual desktop) where all your Dashboard Widgets live. Well those living arrangements aren’t as ...

Widgets are now a staple across nearly every Apple platform—from iOS and iPadOS to watchOS and beyond. In iOS 26, Apple expanded widget compatibility to the car with the redesigned CarPlay experience.

If you’re using OS X 10.4, here’s something you may not have realized about Dashboard: It supports drag-and-drop. Many widgets will accept dropped objects; for those who like using drag-and-drop, this ...

At its WWDC 2019 keynote, Apple made the somewhat surprising revelation of iPadOS along with some features that iOS users have been clamoring for for years. That included mouse support, external USB ...

A forthcoming version of Apple Computer's Safari Web browser may automatically detect the presence of Dashboard widgets on a website, according to developers who've located evidence of such a feature ...