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Will iPad be missing some iPhone apps?

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 8th, 2010)

Wired noticed that there are some notable exceptions among the announced iPad apps, including Stocks, Calculator, Clock, Weather and Voice Memos. These apps could be available for download through the App Store. However, blogger Kevin Fox suggested last month that could hint toward a possible ...

Mystery key on iPad keyboard = Dashboard?

by Chris Rawson (Feb 23rd, 2010)

One of the accessories that will be available for the iPad at its launch is a dock with a full-sized keyboard. On the top row of the keyboard, where the Escape, F1 - F12, and Eject keys are on a standard Mac keyboard, are 14 keys geared toward the iPad's interface. In place of Escape there's a ...

Patent suggests location-based social networking for iPhone

by Chris Rawson (Feb 7th, 2010)

Imagine you and a friend are on a phone call, and both of you own iPhones. You're trying to meet up somewhere downtown in a city neither of you know very well, so the best answer you can give your friend when he asks, "Where are you now?" is "Uhhh..." followed by several seconds of silence. It's ...

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, ...

Widgets: "iPhone apps, I am your father."

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 11th, 2009)

Don't get me wrong, I love the iPhone and its App Store juggernaut, it's just sometimes it seems that people have forgotten all about the iPhone app's father: the Dashboard widget. First introduced in Mac OS X Tiger in 2005, widgets changed the way people quickly accessed simple information on ...

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 ...

Found footage: Dashboard for iPhone on your lock screen

by Erica Sadun (Sep 24th, 2009)

Why didn't Apple think of this? SmartScreen lets you add widgets to your iPhone lock screen, providing an interactive dashboard experience whenever you wake up your device. The software is jailbreak-only (as you'd probably expect, given its standard system-defying functionality) and will be ...

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 ...

Fixing the Image Upload widget

by Aron Trimble (Dec 29th, 2008)

The Image Upload widget featured here is a freeware widget by Model Concept which allows you to upload an image to ImageShack simply by dropping it onto the widget. The result is that the URL is auto-magically saved to your clipboard. The overall experience is pretty slick; it supports audio and ...

Throwboy Dock Icon pillows

by Mike Schramm (Nov 26th, 2008)

We're in the middle of gift guide season right now, but here's a gift that would fit great on any Mac user's list: Throwboy has designed a set of throw pillows after some of the Dock's most famous icons, including iTunes, iPhoto, Dashboard, and the Finder. They're 100% fleece, hand-crafted, and ...

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 ...

Terminal Tips: Disable Dashboard

by Cory Bohon (Aug 21st, 2008)

If you are the type of person that sees Dashboard as an application that just wastes space in your Dock (and an icon on your keyboard), then why not disable it? It is very easy to disable Dashboard; just type in the following command in Terminal.app (Applications > Utilities): defaults write ...