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 ...

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 ...

Windows 11 comes with a built-in widgets panel, but if you've ever tried using it, you know it's more of a news feed than anything truly functional. Microsoft pushes its own selection of widgets, and ...

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Talking about the weather may be the ultimate sign that an awkward conversation is going nowhere. Nevertheless, most of us think about the weather often enough that we want to know what it’s going to ...

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 ...