Niall Kennedy contributes Enwidget, where he explores the ins and outs of the rapidly expanding universe of glanceable information applications and devices. Apple Dashboard widgets can be a quick way ...

Dashboard gets a Launchpad-style widget organization feature in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a standardized user interface that will be more familiar to iOS users. Dashboard, ...

Apple has quietly killed off Dashboard, its widget app, in its forthcoming version of macOS Catalina which was announced at its WWDC yesterday. The discovery comes from Appleosophy, who found no sign ...

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.

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.

The Dashboard in OS X is a convenient tool for accessing quick bits of information or using conversion, translation, or reference utilities among many other tools. Depending on the task at hand, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a ...

Dashboard has been variously described as the return of Desk Accessories, the return of HyperCard, and a rip-off of Konfabulator. But the real point is that Dashboard is supposed to make basic ...