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Firefox upgrade recommended

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

For those using Firefox to access Protopage – an important bug has been fixed in the latest Firefox 1.5.0.2 release. This bug, which only affected Firefox users, caused news feeds to rapidly reload and very occasionally resulted in a browser crash. We are very happy to inform you that Firefox have fixed this bug and […]

Version 3 currently in development

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

We’re currently working on an array of new features and improvements for version 3 of Protopage – including an update of the look and feel. Thank you all for the marvellous suggestions sent in so far – Protopage will continue to evolve until we’ve implemented every one of them!

Gmail inbox previews – update

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

Just a quick note to let you know that Gmail has been having problems with their RSS feeds, which power the Gmail inbox previews on Protopage. Until Google fix this problem, there is a workaround. Google will allow you to access your Gmail via POP3 – and you can enable this feature by logging into […]

Web page widget

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

You can now embed web pages into your Protopage using the new web page widget. Add the widget to your page by using the bottom toolbar, then click the edit button to enter the address of the web page you wish to embed (e.g. http://www.example.com). You may optionally set a vertical offset or horizontal offset […]

Smart save and data center upgrades

Friday, March 17th, 2006

We will be upgrading our servers on Sunday in order to handle extra traffic and to make your pages load faster. We estimate that Protopage will be out of service for up to 45 minutes during this upgrade. We have chosen the time that the fewest users are online, which is Sunday morning. The upgrade […]

New feature: Gravity

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Protopage now supports two ‘widget positioning’ modes: Free positioning and Gravity. Free positioning, which Protopage has had since launch, means that you can position widgets anywhere on the screen, and even allow widgets to overlap. Gravity is a new positioning mode which will help you tidy up your page if you have a lot of […]

Upload photos to your Protopage

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

You can now upload as many photos as you want to your Protopage. Images will automatically be resized to the size of the photo widget – this reduces the size of the photos to ensure that your page loads quickly. To upload an image, go to the toolbar, choose ‘Add widget’, and then choose ‘Add […]

Upcoming search widget

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

We’re currently working on a new and more colorful search widget – and it’ll give you the option to choose your favorite search engines to appear in the list (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Dictionary.com, Ebay, IMDB…). Please tell us what your favorites are, so that we can make sure as many of them as possible are […]

Gmail inbox previews

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

If you have a Gmail inbox preview widget on your Protopage, you may notice that it has been displaying a message: ‘There has been a problem connecting to your email server with the details you have given. Please check with your email service provider for the correct details.’ Google appear to be having network problems […]

Put a clock on your Protopage

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

UPDATE (17 May 2006) : Clocklink have modified the way their source code works, and are now using code that is incompatible with Protopage. We will post a message here when we have implemented a work-around. As you’ve previously seen in our video tutorial, it’s possible to put all sorts of content into HTML sticky […]