An article (republished by the author here) in the Autumn 2008 issue of 2600 Magazine details a pretty serious vulnerability with Apple's dashboard widgets that could allow access to data on the ...

Widgets aren't useless, Microsoft just buried the good parts.

Several MacFixIt readers have recently inquired about keeping Widgets persistent when Mac OS X 10.4.x's Dashboard is not active. MacFixIt reader Wayne Bennett asks: "I am looking for a way to make ...

Widget conflict with Helvetica Neue Several users are noting an issue where text becomes unreadable in Dashboard Widgets when the font Helvetica Neue is installed. When the Helvetica Neue font is ...

Dashboard gets a Launchpad-style widget organization feature in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a standardized user interface that will be more familiar to iOS users. Dashboard, ...

When Apple introduced Notification Center in iOS 5 last summer, jailbreak developers immediately started creating third-party widgets to enhance certain functionalities and create shortcuts for iOS.

A revision to Apple's Dashboard software may offer users the option to choose between multiple widget user interfaces, including a three-dimensional cube environment, a new company filing has revealed ...

As per Appleosophy and MacRumors, the current beta for macOS Catalina no longer features the widget app, which first appeared in OS X Tiger in 2005. It includes a calendar, clock, calculator and a ...

A new Web page documents an issue with Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger’s” new Dashboard feature that, left unchecked, could potentially be exploited by malware developers, according to the page’s author. The ...