It’s almost comical how Apple works to jump out in front of jailbreakers with new features, only to have those new features made even better with jailbreaking. Such is the case with the new widgets baked into iOS5. The jailbreakers have made it even better and are doing so at a very rapid pace. The more »

Right now, access to the web version of GMail is down for some. Users are greeted with a server error and offered little comfort. A quick look at Twitter will help you access your mail even if the first option is down. The first is iGoogle’s mail widget. If you don’t already have the widget more »

It was only a matter of time before we saw the Internet infiltrate our television, and it looks like Verizon is ready to launch their new type of Widget/App store for FiOS subscribers. Verizon has been working with Facebook, Twitter, Veoh, Blip.tv, ESPN, and Dailymotion in order to bring the best of the web to more »

Vizio seems determined to stand out in the HDTV market and by standing out it seems that they are making an attempt to do so in other ways aside from being one of the more affordable models on the store shelf. The latest announcement coming from Vizio includes HDTVs that are ready to support just more »

Widgets are slowly making their way to television, but some people think that widgets have no place on TV. “Television is supposed to be a veg out time. Don’t complicate my TV with widgets.” That’s crazy.

After years of seeing identification bugs on the bottom right of our screens, animated ads popping out of corners, and every news channel having multiple tickers, this is the time for widgets on television.

Gadgetell recently got to play with an IPEVO digital picture frame, the Kaleido R7. Now, I am the guy who wrote a post denouncing digital picture frames as a pointless technology. IPEVO changed my mind.

Digital picture frames have gone through a couple of styles. It started off with toyish plastic borders and eventually moved into looking like traditional picture frames with slim borders. IPEVO decided to come up with its own design.

Looking like it belongs in a movie that is set in the future, the IPEVO is slick looking with its two-toned color scheme and flat buttons.

Got FiOS television? Verizon has added some really cool new features. ESPN Fantasy Football: you can see your stats right on your TV. Verizon’s site says you can check stats “while you watch the game.” It’s not clear if you can have the stats up on the screen at the same time as the video. more »

Sprint is all over the place. They just lost 1.3 million customers, they’ve got their CEO on television yammering about technology, and now they’ve unveiled this thing. What is it? It is Sprint’s promotion of its mobile broadband service featuring over 30 widgets. At random intervals, a woman’s voice will say things like, “Feel free more »

Google launched the redesign of its popular iGoogle portal last week and the complaints began almost immediately. Users are upset with the new look and furious that the redesigned interface was sprung on them with no prior announcement.

The interface allows users to collect web “gadgets” such as map and weather apps, organize RSS feeds and aggregate info such as news, sports and GMail. The revamped interface includes a new “canvas” view that allows gadgets to be displayed full screen and new navigation bar. Find out what else has changed after the break.

Hulu has just introduced a series of widgets, and while personally I have never really been a big widget fan, these seem of a little more interest to me.

First off they are not just desktop widgets, although they will work in Vista Gadgets, they are also able to be embedded in sites such as iGoogle or Facebook and they even offer an iframe code so you can place in in a page of your own choosing. With that you could in turn create you own “private” Hulu entrance page.

The new Hulu widgets also offer a wide range of features, everything from the obvious watching of video to being able to view or add to your current queue and even checking the recently added and current most popular videos.

There are four options to choose from which include the Summer Widget, Show and Movie Widget, Picks Widget or the customizable Player Widget. Click the read link below to head on over to Hulu to check out the full range of options, or keep reading to check out the Player Widget in action…