The key new feature in macOS Sonoma is the ability to add widgets to the Desktop. They’re no longer banished to the notification shade that slides opens when you click on the time in the menu bar. In ...

Back in the day, Mac OS X had a dedicated Dashboard for widgets, where you could add all sorts of nifty little interactive utilities. With the release of macOS Mojave in 2018, Apple finally laid the ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

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 ...

Internet has become such an indispensable resource that it’s truly hard to imagine how we ever got along without it. These days nearly any type of information is as close as a Web site or ...

I used to open my laptop and immediately ignore my tasks. Out of sight, out of mind. But once I put my to-dos on the Windows 11 widget panel, they started staring me down every morning—and suddenly, ...

For those of you who don’t know the basics of widgets, or the difference between desktop and web widgets, check out this surprisingly unbiased overview post on the Yahoo Widgets blog where they talk ...