Miss Muxtape? Forget about it with GrooveShark's new widget service that blends songs from your hard drive with online streaming music. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before ...

Twitter Search is great. Unfortunately, unlike FriendFeed’s search, it doesn’t update live in real-time. Sure, for some searches, that would be annoying. But it’d be nice to at least have the option ...

In this week’s Dashboard roundup, I cover ways to keep your Widgets up to date, see your iTunes stats, quickly find fraction/decimal equivalents, and preview snippets of HTML. And, of course, there’s ...

Apple is pushing widgets hard on all of its operating systems. Widgets are like mini-apps or shortcuts that you can add to your iPhone’s home screen to get quick information without opening an app.

iPhone widgets are used to quickly glance at information from frequently-used apps—here’s how to add them to both a lock screen and home screen, stack them and troubleshoot them. iPhone widgets ...

Below notifications are widgets. They look just like the widgets introduced with iOS and iPadOS 14 because they’re built the same way using SwiftUI. Also, like the iPad, widgets are tied to a ...

The concept of widgets is becoming increasingly popular, on both the desktop and web. Widgets usually provide a rich graphical interface for small features which often do not deserve a full fledged ...

This application note serves as a useful guide in creating customized Widgets. The essential components of a Widget are enumerated and described in this document. This application note also outlines ...

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 ...

This summer, when Apple detailed iOS 14 and the Home screen changes it would bring, the company highlighted personalization as one of the key features of the new widget-populated Home screen. Rather ...