The Mac Dashboard doesn't seem to get much love these days and a decrease in the amount of widgets being made for it means people have likely moved on to dedicated apps for most of their widget purposes. Still, it's an extra screen on your Mac and that means there must be something you can do with it, right? Let's run through a few different ideas for turning the Dashboard into a dedicated screen for certain tasks. More »

Android: Many users, myself included, feel the official Facebook app for Android is severely lacking—it can take forever to update and often crashes. The free or paid app Friendcaster provides a superior Facebook experience on your Android device with all the features you'd expect. More »

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. More »

Chrome/Firefox with Greasemonkey: This extension adds favicons—those little icons you see in your address bar when you visit a page—to Google's search results, so you can more easily see what site each link is coming from. More »

Android: If you've used Android's Facebook app recently, you know how slow and bloated it's become. If you're tired of staring at the Facebook loading screen, Fast Facebook is a cool, customizable, blazing fast Facebook client for Android. More »

Chrome: Kill Evil is a simple extension that disables annoying scrips all across the web, like sites that won't let you right-click, sites that won't let you copy images, or sites that paste in citation links whenever you copy their text. More »

Android: If you're on a flight with your phone propped up in front of you, or listening to music while you work on your phone with your hands on the keyboard, it can be a pain to stop, unlock your phone or tap it to bring up the playback controls, and hit forward, back, switch songs, or change videos. Wave Control is a new Android app that lets you customize hand gestures to control music and video playback that you perform over your phone's proximity sensor, Minority Report style. More »

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. More »

Chrome: Most of you use RSS regularly, but also note it's pretty annoying to stumble on an RSS feed that truncates the article for the sole purpose of getting you to click the link and leave your RSS reader. We feel your pain, and Google Reader Inline is a Chrome Extension that lets you read the full article without leaving Google Reader to do it. More »

Android: Music streaming service Spotify has been hard at work overhauling its Android app. The new Spotify on Android, available as a preview download today for Spotify Premium subscribers, has a completely new design with slide-out navigation, related artist view, friends' profile and playlists viewing, and more. More »