Widget Watch Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Widget Watch: Showcase your TiVo's content on your Mac

by Mike Schramm (Jan 1st, 2008)

Unfortunately, an HD TiVo was too expensive for me in 2007, and none of my friends or relatives ponied up the cash to get me one as a gift this holiday season, so I'm forced to settle with the extremely inferior Comcast HD DVR box. But for you TiVo ...

Widget Watch: iStat Pro 4.5 released

by Christina Warren (Dec 17th, 2007)

I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of widgets -- I like the concept just fine, I just don't really have much use for most of the functions. One big exception is iSlayer's iStat Pro. For the uninitiated, iStat Pro is a system-monitoring widget ...

Widget Watch: Tumblr widget version 3

by Dave Caolo (Dec 6th, 2007)

Here's something for everyone who uses Tumblr. Version 3 of the Tumblr Dashboard widget is available with some cool new features. It can publish posts, links, quotes, and web photos. Also, it puts a dash (-) in front of the source on a quote, which ...

WidgetWatch: DoBeDo ready for Leopard

by Mike Schramm (Dec 6th, 2007)

I don't know what it is-- in all my computing life, I have never once found a ToDo app that's kept me ToDo-ing. I'll decide to get organized, find a system and learn it, and a few weeks later, I'll have about 15 things to do that I never remembered ...

Widget Watch: DockDoctor lets you choose your Dock's dimensions

by Mike Schramm (Nov 2nd, 2007)

First we tweaked the app indicators, and then we tweaked the color, and now we've finally come all the way back in our Time Machine (oh yes, pun very intended) to two weeks ago. Innermind Media, the folks behind WidgetWizard, are probably a little ...

Widget Watch: Refurb Store

by Mat Lu (Sep 27th, 2007)

I've always maintained that a good Dashboard widget should be simple with a well-defined, useful purpose that requires it to be close at hand. The Refurb Store widget meets my desiderata perfectly. All it does is display the latest deals from the US ...

Widget Watch: WidgetWizard turns RSS into widgets

by Mike Schramm (Aug 23rd, 2007)

Disappointed that one of your favorite sites hasn't broken out a widget for their RSS feed yet? Worry not, WidgetWizard's got you covered. Just fill out a quick little form, and the RSS feed of your choice is available in widget form. Sure, it's not ...

Widget Watch: YouTube

by David Chartier (Aug 22nd, 2007)

Before you say anything, I know - YouTube is the last thing you need to have lying around at the flick of a mouse or stroke of a key. I just couldn't stop myself from blogging this because it shot to the top of Apple's popular Dashboard widgets ...

Widget Watch: password protected Secret NotePad

by David Chartier (Aug 18th, 2007)

The Dashboard is fun and all, but few widgets offer much in the way of storing any kind of data in a secure way. If you would like to work with a scratchpad in the comforts of Dashboard but also want the notes you jot down to be secured from ...

Widget Watch: Warp Speed Calculator

by Scott McNulty (Aug 8th, 2007)

The Warp Speed Calculator widget isn't useful at all, unless you happen to be a captain of a Starfleet vessel, but I'm OK with that. As you might expect this simple widget calculates how fast, in km/s, a particular Warp Factor is (from Star Trek: The ...

iGTD Pro details, Inbox Widget released

by David Chartier (Aug 4th, 2007)

Bartlomiej Bargiel has been hard at work on iGTD, his incredibly powerful task task manager based on David Allen's Getting Things Done philosophy, and has recently unleashed news on what he has in store for iGTD Pro. As a matter of fact, iGTD will ...

Widget Watch: Dashalytics 3.0

by David Chartier (Jul 22nd, 2007)

Google's Analytics service is a great (and free) tool for anyone who wants to track website visitor statistics. How many visits, who and where they're coming from, what OS and browser they're using, how long they stay - nearly the whole enchilada. ...

Widget Watch: Avalanche - A free Basecamp client for Yahoo! Widgets

by David Chartier (Jul 19th, 2007)

Basecamp is a popular and powerful web-based project collaboration and management service from 37signals, makers of other TUAW favorites like Backpack and Highrise. Fortunately, even though Basecamp is web-based, 37signals provides a rich API with ...