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iTunes 101: Using the Album Art widget

by Mike Schramm (Sep 3rd, 2010)

Here's a cool new feature in iTunes 10 that we haven't mentioned yet: when listening to any song in your library, you can double click on the album art window in the lower left hand corner to detach it from the main window and see it full size. That's not new -- you could get a closer look at the ...

TUAW Liveblog: Apple Q3 earnings call

by Michael Rose (Jul 20th, 2010)

We're liveblogging today's Apple earnings results in the CoverItLive widget below -- be sure to click and join in to share your comments! You can also listen in on the call via QuickTime streaming. TUAW Coverage of the Apple 3Q Financial Call ...

Give your Dashboard a kick in the pants

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 14th, 2009)

After reading through the comments on my post about Dashboard Widgets, I noticed quite a few people lamented the fact that the widgets have to go through a 'start-up' process every time you turn on your Mac or log out and log back in. Well, not anymore. We actually covered this four years ago, ...

AccuWeather Widget provides a rich alternative to Apple's Weather widget

by TJ Luoma (Oct 10th, 2009)

When I recently wrote about hacking Apple's Weather Widget, a common question was: "Can you tell me how to change Apple's Weather widget to use Accuweather.com again?" Now you might think this is just coming from some people who don't like any form of change, but several people said that the new ...

Weather Widget with time, updated for Snow Leopard

by TJ Luoma (Sep 27th, 2009)

Back in 2005, John Gruber wrote about Hacking Apple's Weather Widget to Show the Time of the Last Update. I was disappointed to learn that my customized Weather widget no longer worked in Snow Leopard, and for some reason John's instructions no longer worked for the Snow Leopard version of the ...

Widget Watch: hiddenfiles

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 3rd, 2009)

Ever wonder what files your Mac is hiding from you? Maybe not, but once in a while there's a need to peek at the stuff OS X keeps you from viewing. Finder does a nice job of hiding the "guts" of some folders, you see, but there are occasions (troubleshooting, setting up a web server, looking for ...

Widget watch: Add iCal events using natural language with QuickCal

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 5th, 2009)

A new widget has found its way onto my Dashboard: QuickCal. It makes adding iCal events as easy as typing a natural-language string such as "lunch with Aditi at noon tomorrow." The widget parses the text as you type and shows what it finds below the entry area, letting you know if it understands ...

Image Upload widget updated to 1.1.1

by Aron Trimble (Jan 6th, 2009)

Up until recently, the Image Upload widget from Model Concept wasn't exactly working as designed. We described in detail a process for fixing the widget, however it was not particularly easy. The developer responsible for the widget, Tom Stoelwinder, contacted me to say that he had fixed the widget ...

Experimental BBC Radio widget released, works with Radio Pop

by Giles Turnbull (Sep 4th, 2008)

You may already use one of several different Dashboard widgets for listening to BBC radio programmes over the net; but the team at BBC Labs has just released a new one that offers something a bit different. It's part of a wider project called Radio Pop that turns radio listening into a social ...

Mac 101: Managing Dashboard widgets

by Cory Bohon (Jul 16th, 2008)

Is your Dashboard cluttered with tons of widgets that you don't want to see any longer? You can easily hide widgets from your Dashboard by holding down the option key while mousing over top of your widget and clicking the "x" button that shows up. Clicking the "x" button does not, however, delete ...

Widget Watch: Get Organized for free

by Steven Sande (Jul 2nd, 2008)

Those wizards of widgets at iSlayer have come up with yet another really useful tool for the Dashboard. Organized is a free widget with an event calendar, world clock, notes, and to-dos, all of which are synced to iCal and Mail. As with other iSlayer widgets like iStat menus/nano/pro, it is obvious ...

Widget Watch: Minutes 2.0.1

by Cory Bohon (May 2nd, 2008)

You may remember us talking about Minutes back when it was first released in April 2007. A lot has changed since then to make Minutes even better than what we first thought. If you're looking for a great dashboard widget timer that is just as Aqua-licious as the built-in timer for iPhone, then look ...

Nozbe: GTD for web, iPhone and Dashboard

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 25th, 2008)

If you're in the market for a web-based GTD solution, Nozbe is one worth checking out. It provides a solid project management solution with contexts, projects, tasks, optional due dates and next actions, and it does it without a cluttered interface. So why am I blogging about a GTD website on TUAW? ...

Widget Watch: Freshbooks time tracker

by Dave Caolo (Mar 28th, 2008)

We know that several of our readers do the type of work that requires them to track their own billable hours. For those of you using Freshbooks, here's a handy Dashboard widget. The Time Tracker Widget includes a timer (of course) plus menus to choose the project you're working on as well as the ...

Widget Watch: HD Radio

by Dave Caolo (Jan 3rd, 2008)

RadioSherpa has released an Apple Dashboard widget that streams radio stations from Boston, New York and San Francisco (they promise more are on the way), including several HD2 stations. It's pretty cool, and even displays the name of the current song in real-time before you load the stream. Note ...