The key new feature in macOS Sonoma is the ability to add widgets to the Desktop. They’re no longer banished to the notification shade that slides opens when you click on the time in the menu bar. In ...

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 ...

With the arrival of Android 12 and Material You theming, it’s time to take a look at how to add and customize widgets once again. No, it’s not that the process has necessarily changed an awful lot. In ...

Apple has announced iOS 14, and it’s the first time in years that the company has made significant changes to the home screen. There are several new features, but perhaps the most significant change ...

Blogger widgets, or "gadgets," allow you to customize your blog template by adding either pre-made applications or your own HTML, CSS or JavaScript to the site. The use of widgets customizes and adds ...

Android widgets are awesome. That much is obvious, right? But as is the case with many tech-scented treasures, sometimes, it takes a teensy bit of digging to unearth the most wonderful widget options ...

Facebook and its third-party developers have produced thousands of widgets -- known as applications or "apps" -- to add entertaining or useful features to Facebook profile pages, homepages, fan pages ...

Braden Newell is an Atlantic Canada-based technologist providing expertise and education on the Apple ecosystem, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT), ...

In an otherwise incremental update, one of macOS Sonoma’s marquee features is interactive desktop widgets. Although Apple now lets you add widgets to the Notification Center on older versions of macOS ...

With Windows 11, Microsoft has added some subtle improvements and new features to enhance the user experience. One of these new features is the addition of support for widgets. Users can access the ...

It seems clear that adding widgets in iOS 14 is easily the most unexpectedly hot new feature–probably since Apple added the ability to download third-party apps via the App Store in iOS 2. For the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Widgets showing off a Twitter user’s latest tweets are hardly a new concept, but Twitter just gave them a major ...