Tag: widgets

Widgetbox launches portable widget directory for iPhone users

April 24th, 2008 by Josh Lowensohn

Widget directory Widgetbox has come up with a directory of iPhone-friendly widgets that can be installed on the home screen as mini widgetised Web apps.

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Organized: Dashboard download for Mac

July 15th, 2008 by Pam Carroll

Organized is a Dashboard widget that just might get you interested in widgets.

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Disable Dashboard and save RAM on your Mac

July 17th, 2007 by Brendon Chase

One feature that's been included in Apple's OS X Tiger operating system and above is Dashboard. In short, this application provides a platform to run mini-applications, or widgets, as Apple call them. If at any time you're using OS X Tiger you can press F12 and your screen will dim and your widgets will be displayed.

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Mac plugins for Facebook

July 12th, 2007 by Brendon Chase

Want an easy way to upload and tag your photos on Facebook? Need to know sooner if your friends are poking you or that you've been invited to an event? What you need are these free Mac OS X plugins so you can spend even more time procrastinating on Facebook.

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More details on Facebook's rumoured 'music project'

October 8th, 2007 by Caroline McCarthy

Rafat Ali of PaidContent claims to have dug up more details about the mysterious "iTunes Store rival" that Facebook has allegedly been working on in recent weeks. And he says that sources indicate it's not Apple that should be worried, but rather MySpace, the once-formidable social network that Facebook has been gaining on steadily since the launch of its developer platform in May.

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Opera 9.5

June 17th, 2008 by Seth Rosenblatt

Long considered a cult favourite, Opera 9.5 for Windows and Mac has introduced some compelling improvements to security, speed and synchronisation — yes, syncing in a browser!— is there enough here to make you a convert?

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The ultimate guide to Mac keyboard shortcuts

May 30th, 2008 by Brendon Chase

This guide shows all the tricks to let your fingers do the walking around your Mac.

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Jobs says oops on MobileMe launch

August 6th, 2008 by Marguerite Reardon

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has admitted it was a "mistake" to roll out the company's MobileMe service at the same time it launched the iPhone 3G and other big products, tech news site Ars Technica has reported

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How-to: Maximise your wireless Mac

July 31st, 2007 by David Flynn

One of the many delights of living in the land of Apple is that hooking up to a wireless network is so easy. All it takes is a few clicks and you're online. But there are also a few simple tricks to getting the most from your wireless Mac, especially if you've got a notebook and often switch between different Wi-Fi networks (from hotspots to 'open' networks) while you're out and about.

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Yahoo announces social networking app for iPhone

September 11th, 2008 by Stephen Shankland

Yahoo on Wednesday released a preview version of a free new iPhone application called oneConnect that can centralise communications and social-networking activity.

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