Apple’s macOS Sonoma has brought a bunch of interesting new features for Mac users, and desktop widgets are among the most useful. As the name implies, you can now drag and drop widgets right onto ...

Here at Widgets Live, we're listening to a panel discuss the state of widget engines on the desktop. The panel is made up of Kan Liu, Google Desktop product manager, Ed Voss, chief architect of Yahoo ...

Do you think an empty desktop is a wasted desktop? Do you love decorating your workspace with widgets to make your desktop more useful? Well, here’s how I used KDE Plasma widgets to turn my Linux ...

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 ...

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Widgets are no strangers to macOS users. First introduced with Mojave in 2018, Apple has revamped this piece of software so users can always have helpful information with macOS Sonoma. During the WWDC ...

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Several MacFixIt readers have recently inquired about keeping Widgets persistent when Mac OS X 10.4.x's Dashboard is not active. MacFixIt reader Wayne Bennett asks: "I am looking for a way to make ...

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 ...

Apple's updated widgets in macOS Sonoma are not only now available on the Mac's desktop, they're also interactive instead of solely displaying information. Here's how to use them. A headline feature ...