Archive for the 'how-to' Category

Create your own Protopage widgets with AI

Sunday, December 8th, 2024

We’re now in the age of AI, which means you only need to know plain English in order to be a programmer. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to create your own widget that lets you convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit. Here is the end result: To create this, we first signed up for […]

All tab issues now resolved

Friday, December 1st, 2006

We’ve had a few bugs related to data migration, tabs and sharing/importing of tabs. All of these issues should now be resolved. We have now made it impossible to lose widgets by preventing tab deletions unless they are empty. We have run a script so that any widgets from any accidentally deleted tabs should now […]

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 […]

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 […]

How to put videos on your Protopage

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

You can put all sorts of custom content into your Protopage using the Edit as: HTML option in your sticky notes. To see what is possible, take a look at our demo page. To get started, go to YouTube.com and find a video clip you like (or upload your own). Then, copy the code listed […]