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 ...

Using KDE Plasma Widgets is another fantastic way to display desktop widgets on your Ubuntu desktop. However, you need to ...

The Lockscreen of a Windows computer is the window you see every time you boot it up, right when you’re about to log into your system. The screen is highly customizable on Windows computers. Since ...

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 ...

Microsoft has re-introduced a side widget in Windows 11, but it lacks the customization and some functionalities that you ...

Windows has a rocky history with widgets. Vista had the Windows Sidebar, a collection of widgets (then called ‘gadgets’) that provided glanceable information on one side of your desktop. Windows 7 ...

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 ...

Google has begun working on a project to bring “glanceable” widgets to the ChromeOS desktop, which could act like a large-screen version of Pixel’s At A Glance widget. Now it seems Google is preparing ...

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I've been testing PC and mobile software for more than 20 years, focusing on photo and video editing, operating systems, and web browsers. Prior to my current role, I covered software and apps for ...

Right on my Mac desktop, I can check my mouse battery (38% and dropping), see where my son Ian is (at work), get the latest weather update (hello, sunny Phoenix!), and even keep track of time with a ...