Right on my Mac desktop, I can check my mouse battery (38% and dropping), see where my son Ian is (at work), get the latest weather update (hello, sunny Phoenix!), and even keep track of time with a ...

Plasma (aka KDE Plasma) is one of the best desktop environments on the market today. It's equal parts beauty and efficiency. It's instantly familiar and easy to customize. But did you know that the ...

When Microsoft launched Windows 11 back in 2021, it talked a big game in the widgets department. Alongside a new user ...

You may not know it, but there's a world of widgets just waiting to be explored on your MacBook. Widgets are tiny apps you can place on your desktop to help you do all kinds of things, like keeping up ...

Get simple desktop widgets for monitoring Time Machine. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Backup Status is a simple app that puts a Time Machine widget on your Mac desktop (or stows it away in your ...