In iOS 14, Apple made some dramatic changes to the Home Screen of iPhone and iPad. In particular, it introduced the concept of ‌Home Screen‌ widgets. Previously, use of widgets was limited to the ...

There are plenty of apps you can use to make countdown widgets on iOS 14. Don’t go searching for the word “countdown” in the App Store though, you’ll just get frustrated. I’ve been toying around with ...

Widgets have been around since the early days of Android, but it took what felt like a lifetime for them to get any good. Today, not having any widgets on your home screen is just asking to do things ...

The new iOS 14 widgets are bigger, brighter, and more useful than before, but they take up a lot of room — unless you use widget stacks, and Smart Stacks. It's the most visible difference between iOS ...

Launcher is bringing its customizable widgets to iOS 14 with new functionality, including the ability to rotate a widget’s icons by date, time or even location. It also supports customizable widget ...

In iOS 14, Apple overhauled widgets and introduced an option for adding widgets to the Home Screen, but in the process, a well-loved Favorites widget that existed in iOS 13 was removed. The Favorites ...

Widgets, widgets, widgets. Has there ever been an Android feature so full of promise that went unloved by Google for so very long? Google may have given up on widgets for a while, but the good news is ...

In a recent hints blog, I described how to play Flash games in Dashboard. This trick uses Safari’s Web Clip feature to create a Dashboard widget showing just the Flash game. Although Safari isn’t my ...

One of the many benefits of using Android is the mulitple different ways users can achieve certain tasks, and one in particular we’re focusing on today is sharing your data connection to a nearby ...

Consumer review site Rate It All explains the Long Tail is getting longer, making it increasingly important to deliver your Web service to consumers where they are. Enter widgets. Newsweek predicted ...