New widgets, new look, new wallpapers and more
Due to popular demand, we’ve just released a new version of Protopage with a flurry of new features:
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.
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.
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.
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!
October 7th, 2012 at 10:22 pm
Thanks for the new features. Especially the tablet ones, that will make life a lot easier!
Keep up the great work guys
Regards
Steve
October 7th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
Thanks Steve, nice to see you still around :)
October 8th, 2012 at 7:19 am
I thoroughly enjoy Protopage! It\’s a great tool. I noticed that something has happened with the borders -unless I\’m the only one seeing jagged triangles strung together rather than continuous lines. Just happened tonight.
Thx! Keep up the excellent development.
October 8th, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Thanks Bob, yes, that’s part of the new look and feel. We’ve tested it on a wide range of pages and it seems to look better overall for the majority of pages. We hope you’ll grow to like it :)
October 8th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Hi
One thing I have noticed today is that the text in the search engine fields in Protopage have a shadow font effect? Is this a default thing or can it be changed to a plain text font?
Regards
Steve
October 8th, 2012 at 7:10 pm
Ah thanks, we’ll fix that
October 8th, 2012 at 10:38 pm
Thanks, it looks like someone is written on blotting paper with fountain pen!
October 9th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
The met office offers some code for a widget, has anyone got it working in Protopage and how ?
October 9th, 2012 at 7:10 pm
Hi John, the Met Office have a bug in their code which is preventing it from working, unfortunately. Specifically, they have a javascript error which causes an issue when their widget is put inside an ‘iframe’. Sorry about that.
October 9th, 2012 at 8:03 pm
Thanks for fixing the font in the search engine drop down windows. Not readable again.
Thanks for the prompt action as always.
Regards
Steve
October 10th, 2012 at 6:37 am
Thank you for looking at it, I am not that fussy on Accuweather and was looking for a UK alternative
October 10th, 2012 at 12:22 pm
Doh! Never mind my last post. I just had to maximize the widget a little and now it is perfect!
October 15th, 2012 at 9:38 pm
How do I make my own picture cover the screen like wallpaper?
October 16th, 2012 at 5:39 pm
Anyway to make widgets and/or web pages auto-update?
Weather info seems frozen until I reload.
November 6th, 2012 at 6:50 am
Any chance to see more widgets in JavaScript or HTML5. Flash is a dying platform. In particular would like to see clock, weather, and stock tracker widgets that will work on Safari/iPad.
Thanks!
November 13th, 2012 at 2:21 pm
How about adding an option for each webpage frame to reload every x minutes/seconds… (it would be better to reload only a frame instead of reloading the whole protopage!)
November 13th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
How often are the RRS feeds being populated?
November 13th, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Webpages frames with costume zoom would be great as well
November 13th, 2012 at 3:22 pm
One more thing: The horizontal and Vertical offsets are very handy, would be nice to extend the functionality and use \
March 5th, 2013 at 12:44 pm
For something that has been around for 7 years, protopage is pretty kludgy, in my view. Right now your own featured weather widget has become a “blocked widget” without having been removed or replaced on your widget list.
March 5th, 2013 at 12:47 pm
How do I get the new Accuweather widget?
March 5th, 2013 at 1:17 pm
Ok, it seems Safari is blocking your plugins with outdated java code in them. How do we fix this?
March 5th, 2013 at 1:32 pm
Flash update cured the problem for Safari. Sure would be nice if Apple would provide a more diagnostic error message than “blocked plugin”!
August 31st, 2013 at 10:36 am
In advance of iGoogle\’s death, I\’m probably one of thousands who have switched to Protopage. After a few days, I can say I like its flexibility with the layout a lot, and being able to select any Webpage image as a background. Things I miss are widgets for Google translate, and Intellicast widget (I set up the page widget for it though), and a more full Gmail display of my inbox instead of new mail only.
October 4th, 2013 at 3:11 pm
Love protopage and just getting used to it.
One problem with Google Calendar. Seems that it only allows the default calendar to be viewed? I have 5 personal calendars (home, birthdays, and 3 for work) and would love to have the ability to show multiple calendars in the Google Calendar widget.
October 7th, 2013 at 3:42 pm
I agree with Maimon…I share family calendars that I cannot view even though I have the sharing option through Google. Would love to pull them in so I can view them all.
I loved my igoogle homepage, but think protopage is a great new option!
October 15th, 2013 at 4:02 am
Agree with previous posts regarding multiple google calendars – big letdown for someone being forced off igoogle – calendar functionality is one of the sticky things about igoogle – why no fix?
November 4th, 2013 at 6:19 pm
One more post about google calendar… Now igoogle is gone, it is very useful if we have in a single widget all our calendars.
November 18th, 2013 at 2:56 pm
Are the photos most of the news widgets part of the new look? Most of my stuff will not load today! What is up
June 21st, 2014 at 3:25 pm
Wallpaper image from a URL were loading fine until a couple of months ago. Now cannot get an image to load, either the stock images or my own URL. It won\’t even preview, just going to solid white background. Solids and patterns work. Using Ubuntu 13 with Firefox 26. I had written to Support without any response. Any help?
October 1st, 2014 at 11:27 pm
Accuweather widget no longer delivering any info. =( I\’ve tried disabling all extensions, reinstalling widget, no luck. Anyone have any advice, or recs for a different weather widget?