The beauty and effectiveness of desktop widgets.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do more with your desktop in Windows and macOS. You might already be familiar with widgets from your iPhone or Android ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although Ubuntu doesn’t ship with desktop widgets, you can add them using these four tools.

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 ...

OS X (10.9+): If you're looking to customize your desktop in OS X, usually you'd turn to an app like GeekTool. Now there's an alternative—Übersicht, a new app that lets you build custom widgets to ...

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 ...

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 ...