Have you ever wanted to mark all of the headlines inside a widget as read? You can now do this by holding the left mouse button down inside any widget and tapping the “X” key on your keyboard. If you want to mark all widgets on your page as read, you can hold the left […]
By popular demand, we’ve added some new display options for your news headlines. To access these options, click the Colors/Settings button at the top of your page, and look in the bottom left of that screen. You can now “line wrap” your headlines, so that the whole headline will show even if it’s too long […]
Welcome to those of you that are migrating from iGoogle to Protopage this month. For those of you that are not aware, iGoogle is a Google competitor to Protopage that is being shut down by Google in a few week’s time. We’re very proud to have outlasted our competitors, and have been able to do […]
We’ve just released a new version of Protopage featuring a new lightweight design that will speed up your page load by 20-40%. We’ve also added a new search bar, which will make it easier for you to access all of your favourite search engines. We’ve also released a new Twitter timeline widget that will display […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
