Protopage News Blog

Drag bookmarks between widgets

Protopage Team — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:40:03 +0000

By popular demand, we’ve made it easier to manage your bookmarks. You can now drag bookmarks between widgets, or even drag them within a widget to reorder them.

To drag a bookmark, ensure that you drag it by the bookmark icon.

As before, you can still click the ‘edit’ button on a bookmarks widget to edit your bookmarks in list mode.

Protopage Chrome extension

Protopage Team — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:01:32 +0000

We’ve just released an extension for the Google Chrome web browser that makes it easy to add bookmarks and news feeds to your Protopage.

Simply click the icon and the extension will show you if the news site or blog you are currently visiting can be added to Protopage as a news feed. It’s also an easy way to add bookmarks to your Protopage.

To install this Chrome extension, click here

We’re also working on a Firefox extension for future release.

New widgets, new look, new wallpapers and more

Protopage Team — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 11:03:41 +0000

Due to popular demand, we’ve just released a new version of Protopage with a flurry of new features:

New Accuweather weather widget, Yahoo! Finance stock quote widget, Google Calendar widget

You can now see the weather in any city in the world, add your own stock quotes and charts, and add your personal Google Calendar with these new widgets. They are available on the list inside the “Add widgets” menu.

Color scheme tweaks

We’ve slightly tweaked the color gradients used when widgets are displayed on the screen. This is so that they look better with a much wider range of color selections than before.

Safari / iOS 6 support and iPad/Android tablet drag and drop setting

We now support the latest version of Safari and iOS 6 for iPad and iPod touch. If you are using a tablet and you find yourself accidentally dragging widgets around when you only intended to scroll, there is now also an option to disable widget dragging on tablets.

50 new wallpapers

We’ve created 50 new original wallpapers that are available via the Colors/Settings screen

Thanks to everyone that has written in with suggestions and bug reports. Please keep the feedback coming!

Protopage is 7 years old and outlasts iGoogle!

Protopage Team — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:59:59 +0000

Google announced today that it is shutting down iGoogle, which was a Protopage competitor.

Protopage launched in 2005 and is still going despite nearly every other start page shutting down or becoming derelict.

We were one of TechCrunch’s first ever posts on August 18th 2005 (after seeing we were the #1 most bookmarked site on delicious that weekend), and we’re still going strong!

http://techcrunch.com/2005/08/18/profile-protopage/

FYI, unlike other start pages that took huge amounts of venture capital and underwent forced sales, Protopage is completely independent and debt free, and we hope to be around to celebrate our 50th birthday one day if the internet is still around…

(If you’ve just discovered Protopage, you can try it here)

New tablet and smartphone support

Protopage Team — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:08:19 +0000

Due to popular demand, we’ve just released better support for tablets and larger smartphones, so that you have the choice between viewing the mobile version or the normal version of Protopage on your device.

We were previously automatically redirecting mobile devices and tablets to the mobile site, but we now present you with a choice when you visit protopage.com from those devices. As before, you can always reach Protopage mobile directly by going to protopage.com/mobile from your mobile device.

Two new Twitter widgets

Protopage Team — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:23:11 +0000

We’re pleased to announce two new Twitter widgets. You can now add your own or someone else’s Twitter feed to your page by clicking the ‘Add widgets’ toolbar button and then clicking ‘Add a twitter feed’. You can also add a Twitter Search widget, which displays the latest tweets on a particular topic or search term that you wish to follow.

In addition, there is a new ‘Add a map location’ feature, which allows you to easily add a Google Map for a location that you type in. Enjoy!

Embedded Google Maps update

Protopage Team — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:58:49 +0000

We’ve just upgraded our Google Maps widget to support embedding.

If you go to a Google Map in your web browser, you can click the “Link” icon (as indicated in the image above) and then copy the embed url. Then click ‘edit’ on a Google Maps widget on your Protopage and paste this into the “Web site address” field.

Click save, and your Google Map will then appear on your Protopage!

Browser compatibility updates

Protopage Team — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:07:30 +0000

We’ve just updated Protopage with compatibility fixes for the pre-release version of Firefox 8 and for Firefox 6 beta.

Protopage should work perfectly with all versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer.

Server and mobile updates

Protopage Team — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:52:06 +0000

We’ve recently performed a server upgrade to increase our ability to serve our growing userbase. We continue to monitor and update the Protopage service to meet the needs of new web browser versions and new mobile phones, including updates for the latest batch of Android mobile phones. Thank you for continuing to use Protopage, where you can rely on us for decades to come!

Browser compatibility upgrade

Protopage Team — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:39:21 +0000

We’ve just released some new tweaks to support the new Firefox 3.5 browser, and to allow the full range of rich text editing when using Google Chrome. For those of you in the northern hemisphere, hope you’re enjoying your Summer!