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.

In most cases, you can close a Dashboard widget on your Mac by holding the "Option" key and clicking the "X" in the upper left corner of the widget. However, you may occasionally find that a faulty or ...

Although Apple killed its beloved widget Dashboard in 2019, a savvy developer has created a way for us to travel back in time and experience that old Apple nostalgia. On Friday, developer Zane ...

Wikipedia 0.8.7 - Search for and view wikipedia articles, complete with pictures, directly from the Dashboard. RabbitRadio 0.6 - A Dashboard widget for realtime streaming of NPR radio stations.

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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 ...

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Google Gadgets can now run on Apple’s Dashboard as a native Dashboard Widget. Now you can have the same Google Gadget on your iGoogle page and Google Desktop Sidebar as well as in your Apple Dashboard ...

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 ...

OS X: Odds are, your Mac's Dashboard has fallen by the wayside in recent years (even though it can be really useful), but widgets can still be really handy for certain tasks. WidgetRunner frees them ...