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New tablet and smartphone support

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

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 […]

Two new Twitter widgets

Sunday, November 6th, 2011

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 […]

Embedded Google Maps update

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

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 […]

Browser compatibility updates

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

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

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

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 […]

Browser compatibility upgrade

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

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!  

Protopage longevity

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

It has recently been announced that a competitor of ours, YourMinis, has shut down its start page, and we’ve had a number of emails asking nervously whether Protopage is safe. We’re extremely lucky at Protopage to have very low costs and to not rely on venture capital or any external investors in order to provide […]

Protopage Mobile goes live

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

We’ve just launched a major update to Protopage, which includes brand new mobile features. Protopage Mobile has been specially optimized for dozens of mobile phones including the Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, Windows Mobile 5/6, HTC and Palm. To access it, simply visit protopage.com/mobile on your phone. News feeds are automatically […]

Protopage Mobile in development

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

We’re currently working on our most requested feature – mobile access. You’ll be able to access all of your news feeds, search engines, bookmarks, notes, to-dos, calendar entries, photos and email inboxes from most mobile phones that have an integrated web browser. We’ve also been releasing a number of bug fixes over the last few […]

News Feed Thumbnail Previews and Auto Arrange

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

We’re introducing two experimental features today – we have not enabled them by default for existing users but you can try them by following the instructions below: News Feed Thumbnail Previews Our news indexing system has been upgraded to provide thumbnail previews for your news feeds, in order to give your page a more exciting […]