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- Widget
- Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe...
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- Hardware Monitor Widget 2.8 (Mac)
- Hardware Monitor Widget Edition is the Dashboard version of its "bigger brother" Hardware Monitor. You need a working registered copy of Hardware Monitor in order to fully use this widget. The applications are designed to give you access to all sensor readings Mac OS X uses to monitor and cool...
- Tags: Monitor, Apple Macintosh, Hardware, Marcel Bresink Software-Systeme, Hardware Monitor Widget Edition, Widget, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS
- Software downloads 2009-09-21
- Temperature Monitor Widget 2.8 (Mac)
- Temperature Monitor Widget Edition is the Dashboard version of its "bigger brother" Temperature Monitor. It is recommended that you use Temperature Monitor first before using the widget edition to learn more about the sensor equipment of your computer. The applications are designed to give you access to all temperature sensor...
- Tags: Monitor, Apple Macintosh, Dashboard, Computer, Marcel Bresink Software-Systeme, Widget, Apple Mac OS X, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-09-21
- DoBeDo 4.3.1 (Mac)
- DoBeDo is a freeware Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X Leopard. The widget allows you to view, add, edit and delete todo items. Its tight integration with iCal and Apple Mail make it an indispensable addition to any Dashboard lineup. You can display items from any one of your calendars,...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Dashboard, BlueHenley, DoBeDo, Widget, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-09-07
- MiniBatteryStatus Widget 2.6.10 (Mac)
- MiniBatteryStatus widget monitors battery status and charge percentage. It displays colorful information to quickly notice your battery conditions. The widget assumes different colors depending on the remaining charge of the battery. It is also aware of battery charging and plugged status. User can choose if the widget should display...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Battery, Emeraldion Lodge, MiniBatteryStatus Widget 2.6.10, Widget, Engineering
- Software downloads 2009-09-06
- Motorola Evoke QA4
- Photo gallery:Motorola Evoke QA4We're not quite sure what to make of the Motorola Evoke QA4. Though it offers a touch screen, a full HTML browser, and an appealing slider design, it hardly qualifies as either a smartphone or a multimedia powerhouse like the Samsung Eternity. Also, while we appreciate its...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, widget, Motorola Inc., touch screen, Cricket Wireless
- Product reviews 2009-06-23
- Do consumers want widgets on their HDTVs? Survey says definitely maybe.
- Do consumers want widgets on their HDTVs? Survey says definitely maybe.Widgets take presious scrren space Widgets seem nice on computer, sidebar connections to time & temp, yet after few viewing on TV, it is likely to be problem, Can You Turn OFF Widgets? Especially since You May have NO Control...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, advertisement, Survey Says, WIDGETS, HDTV, survey
- Discussion threads 2009-03-15
- APOD Viewer 2.5 (Mac)
- "APOD Viewer" is a widget for displaying the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" from NASA's web page. Each day a new image is presented along with a description by a professional astronomer. In addition to showing the current image "APOD Viewer" also lets you see the accompanying explanation by simply...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Image, Keyboard Shortcut, Hauberg Software, Widget, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2009-03-11
- Radar In Motion 2.6.1 (Mac)
- A Dashboard widget that grabs radar images from the Weather Channel or NOAA and displays the animation. One can access the radar for a given city in the United States or get a regional map, including several international maps. The widget has options for displaying and updating the maps, including...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Map, Radar, Kamal Aboul-Hosn, Widget, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2009-01-14
- Apple dashboard widget vulnerability published
- Apple dashboard widget vulnerability publishedGo sell crazy someplace else...If you download something off the Internet and run it, anything, on your computer it has access! It's not a flaw in the OS it's just the way it is!Here's a better story...AppeScript can be used to exploit user machines! ...
- Tags: SECURITY, Apple Dashboard Widget, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-23
- Apple dashboard widget vulnerability published
- 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 user's hard drive. Since we may access the system with user privileges, we may edit/remove/create files within...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Dashboard, Apple Inc., Widget, Security, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-23
- DashLock 2.0 (Mac)
- DashLock is a widget that adds a little lock to your Dashboard. The widget allows you to quickly lock your screen and switch to loginwindow, keeping your session active. The new 2.0 version improves the animation quality.
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Animation, Alwin Troost, DashLock, Widget
- Software downloads 2008-12-23
- Intel, Yahoo team up on interactive TV platform
- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Eric Kim and Yahoo's Patrick Barry demo a new TV platform designed to bring rich Internet applications featuring sports, weather, and financial information to the living room. Consumer electronics that use Intel's architecture will offer the Yahoo Widget Engine, an applications...
- Tags: Interactive TV, Team, Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Financial Accounting, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, Widget, Intel, Yahoo
- Videos 2008-08-20
- Tastiera 1.1.1 (Mac)
- This widget lets you use your computer keyboard as a piano keyboard. It gives a range of 3 octaves (1 1/2 on either side of middle C). It was originally made for singers, but should also be useful for composers, musicians, &c. The widget adapts itself to any keyboard...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Coq, Widget, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2008-08-19
- ConcertGoer 1.0 (Mac)
- From the developer of Radar In Motion comes ConcertGoer, an Apple Mac OS X Dashboard widget designed for the person who loves to go to concerts. The widget retrieves concert data from PollStar and provides it for you in an easy-to-read format. You can mark which shows you are going...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Kamal Aboul-Hosn, Widget, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Aerospace & Defense, Operating Systems, Software, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2008-07-12
- Gallery: Chumby
- A gallery of photos of the Chumby Internet appliance. by Jason O'Grady
- Tags: Jason O'Grady, Chumby, Internet, Appliance, WiFi, Widget, RSS
- Image galleries 2008-05-19
- PHPQuickReference 0.8.1 (Mac)
- PHPQuickReference is a widget to search, browse and display online PHP documentation. All you have to do is enter the term you want to know about and it will do the rest. The widget provides basic HTML formatting and intelligent hyperlink management. Links recognized as reference topics are automatically browsed...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Prefix, Emeraldion Lodge, PHPQuickReference, Widget, Scripting Languages, Web Browsers, Desktops, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-05-10
- Veodia ups the video ante
- Veodia, a two year old, venture backed narrowcast video play has taken a further step forward in helping proliferate its technology with the release of a Flash based widget that uses the MPEG-4/h.264 standard. The widget allows organizations to distribute channel based content direct into individual websites or to MPEG-4...
- Tags: Video, Service, Veodia, Widget, Corporate Communications, Harassment, Pricing, Web Site Development, Marketing, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- RadioSherpa Apple Dashboard Widget 0.85 (Mac)
- Widget that plays all your favorite radio stations including all the new HD2 stations. Widget includes real-time guide showing what song/program is playing on every station even without loading the stream. Widget is expanding its coverage nationwide in the coming months. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com....
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Station, Apple Inc., RadioSherpa, Widget, Advertising & Promotion, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-02-20
- Cyberduck Upload Widget 1.0 (Mac)
- The widget offers an easy way to quickly upload items to your favorite FTP or SFTP server using Cyberduck. Open a Cyberduck widget on your Dashboard and flip it to configure it with the details of your server. Either choose a server from your Cyberduck bookmarks dropdown list or type...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Dashboard, Emeraldion Lodge, Widget, Cyberduck, Servers, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-02-15
- pongClock 1.0.1 (Mac)
- This Widget is all you need when it comes down to Pong on the Dashboard. If idle, it plays Pong against itself, while the score always displays the current time. But if you feel competitive, you can always play Pong against the widget. Start the game by pressing the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Dashboard, CPU, Widget, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-02-11
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