This summer, when Apple detailed iOS 14 and the Home screen changes it would bring, the company highlighted personalization as one of the key features of the new widget-populated Home screen. Rather ...

When iOS 14 debuted, iPhone owners everywhere were blessed with widgets. But of course, widgets weren't perfect – in fact, there weren't that many widgets even available! The iPhone has widgets ...

You may remember Launcher as the once-banned iOS widget that Apple booted from the App Store after its approval, then months later allowed back in. The problem Apple had with the app, seemingly, 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 ...

Since the release of iOS 14, we have been covering several apps that offer different home screen widgets, including some that feature multiple customization options. However, this is the first time I ...

Widgetbox is another create-your-own widget company, although it’s often overshadowed by larger competitors like Clearspring. Widgetbox lets you create and embed a snippet of software code on other ...

This application note serves as a useful guide in creating customized Widgets. The essential components of a Widget are enumerated and described in this document. This application note also outlines ...

In Samsung’s One UI 4.1, Smart Widgets for Galaxy phones were introduced to make things a little easier. These specialized widgets are stackable and can house several widgets at once. Here’s how you ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even before iOS and iPadOS 14 brought a new form and function to widgets on Apple platforms, one of the tried and true widget use cases in previous years was task lists. Some of my most used widgets ...