All script writers need to deal with textual data at one time or another. One of the most powerful tools for manipulating text in the free software world is the text widget found in the Tk graphical ...

[This article is based on a section of Ted’s ebook, “Take Control of Your iPhone.” Ted tweaked some parts to bring it fully up-to-date for TidBITS, and we reorganized it somewhat to make it fit better ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Here is a simple text widget called reClock that can give any device a sense of minimalism, while also making ...

Widget, widgets, widgets. Boy, have we got some widgets for you. And text. Plain text. Plain old text, turned into a calculator. And widgets. Did I mention those? Weather widgets. Battery widgets. And ...

Yesterday, I covered Widgetsmith, which among many other things, can display whatever text you’d like in an iOS 16 Lock Screen widget. Lock Screen One is a new app from Sindre Sorhus, the maker of ...

CallWave makes it possible for users to forward their cell phone’s voicemail answering to a service that they can hear over the Internet, using a Dashboard widget. Now the company has released a free ...

Continuing on with what has turned into ASCII Sunday here at TUAW, a comment from Micah Cooper led me to FIGlet, which has been around roughly since the dinosaurs roamed the earth. It allows you to to ...

The canvas widget in the Tk graphical user interface toolkit is a free software tool used to present graphical data. Like the Tk text widget, which I discussed in my previous article, the canvas ...

SPoZB explains what he did to put it all together: I enabled overlapping widgets to fit the 1x1 weather widget into the corner of the time widget. I also disabled the status bar to remove some clutter ...