Possible security exploit, vulnerability to malicious widgets Mac OS X 10.4.0, installed and run in its default state, contains a vulnerability based on a number of factors -- including Safari's ...

Two years ago Apple introduced to OS X Tiger a feature called Widgets. These are simple Java based applications that reside in a special window and are designed to give users access to various things ...

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, ...

Widget "phone home" function actually a security measure A widely reported new function in Mac OS X 10.4.7 where the dashboardadvisoryd process connects to Apple servers is actually a security measure ...

Way back in 2005, Apple released Mac OS X Tiger, and with it, the original implementation of widgets on the Mac through its Dashboard software. One of those widgets was a now-defunct iTunes media ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted Apple a patent for the so-called "widgets" dashboard, which holds a number of mini applications built on web languages CSS, HTML and JavaScript, ...

Notification Center has been a part of OS X for two years: It was introduced in Mountain Lion and expanded upon in Mavericks. But with OS X Yosemite, Notification Center has transformed into something ...

So, when you use OS X Dashboard widgets for a while, chances are you’ll download a few of them that might fit together into categories. In OS X Mountain Lion, Apple set the “Add More Widgets” screen ...

This morning, Yahoo announced the release of Yahoo Widgets 4, the company's platform for web-enabled mini apps on the desktop. It's a cross-platform release, with (required) desktop engines available ...

The new Music Widget, which is actually a standalone app, brings back to life the original Mac OS X (Tiger) iTunes widget. So you can party like it’s 2005 with your tunes. The Tiger OS, released in ...

Many GMail-using Mac-users, such as ourselves, probably already have some sort of third-party plugin that allows us to see when we have new GMail (that is, if we’re not using our GMail accounts with ...

Widgets are so out of the way they are not part of the standard OSX experience, and not part of the iOS experience at all. A subset of power users may love them dearly, but as you may have noticed ...