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Sendeo – A single dashboard for your digital life

admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:41:55 +0000

Too frequently our digital stuff (documents, photos, music, movies, etc.) are spread across many websites that we have had to register on. We are unable to share our files with our family and friends without asking them to register on those sites and oftentimes those sites don’t allow you to store and share various types of media. Sendeo allows you to store and share all types of media simply, easily and free. Sendeo is a single personalized dashboard for your digital life. Sendeo looks and feels like a look up window for all of your people, places, and things. It is your online hard drive and everything is securely stored and managed. The Lite Version of Sendeo allows you to upload a file up to 10MB, the Power Version allows you to upload a file of up to 2GB.

Sendeo.com

Tizmos: Keep & Access Your Favorite Websites From Anywhere

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:08:55 +0000

Tizmos is a personalized homepage that shows you little thumbnails of your favorite websites. These thumbnails are called Tizmos and can be added, dragged around, deleted and edited. You can think of it as a web-based opera speed dial that incorporates tagging and social features. It’s useful for people that use multiple computers (home PC, work, school, etc…) and puts all your favorite websites in one place for easy access from anywhere. You can keep your personal startpage private or share with others by forwarding a a link to your http://www.tizmos.com/yourusername.

Tizmos

FanBoom : Create Your Own Personalized Sports Website in Under a Minute!

admin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:20:43 +0000

Aggregate news from all major sports sites, top 100 national newspapers, and over 2,000 hometown newspapers. Track your favorite teams. Sports columns from The FanBoom Fanatics. Belly-up to the bar in the FanBoom Community.

FanBoom

Pageflakes – fun and easy way to customize the Internet and make it yours.

admin — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:45:28 +0000

Personalize your homepage with your favorite news, sports, weather, entertainment, photos, videos, music, email…and much more, all in one place!

It’s free, quick, and you don’t need an account.

Pageflakes

Only2Clicks – customized start page

admin — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:20:26 +0000

When we do new install windows, or buying a new PC, the browser home page is always defaulted to one of Microsoft’s website or the manufactures. Only2Clicks lets you set up a customized start page with instant access to your favorite sites, along with previews of what’s on their home pages.

Only2Clicks

Widgetop – Your Web Desktop (webtop)

admin — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:53:53 +0000

A very cool widget-rich web desktop you can customize to your liking. It works great in your browser or even your iPhone.

Widgetop Web Desktop currently works with FireFox 1.5+ and Safari browsers.

ZOHO Start – Dashboard for all your Office Files

admin — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:39:28 +0000

Access from a common place
Single page destination to create, edit, share and view all your documents

Support for folders
Ability to segregate documents into folders

Search across files
Integrated search across documents, spreadsheets and presentations

Contacts list
Know the web presence of your Zoho Chat contacts for easy collaboration

List & Box View
Switch between list and box views

ZOHO Start

Webwag personalized start page

admin — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:51:20 +0000

Webwag is the unique place where you can access all the information and services that matter for you, in a click of a button.

Choose between news feeds, online services, live TV, emails (pro and personal), sticky notes, weather forecasts and many more.

Simply click ‘Add New Content’ to install your widgets, drag and drop and you’re done with your ultimate personal portal

Webwag

Netvibes the popular personalized home page

admin — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:59:48 +0000

Netvibes, the popular personalized home page, works great as an RSS reader, but if you’re using it only for this reason, you’re missing out. With the colossal number of available modules, you can use it to increase your productivity or even do serious work. Create a new tab, slap on the following Netvibes modules, and you’ve got yourself a lightweight and always available online office environment.

Webnote

This one is a no-brainer; every office needs its post-its, and webnote will give you the ability to quickly jot down whatever is on your mind at the moment. The webnote module from the Netvibes development team, but we prefer Strongbox, which lets you encode your notes with a password-protected 128-bit encryption for additional security.

To do list

If you need an office, it probably means you have stuff to do. Make sure you don’t forget about them (or procrastinate too much) with this handy to do list module. We’ve included a generic one (which you can find under the Add Content menu in Netvibes).

Address book

Most people already have an address book of preference, but this little module supports importing and exporting, which means you can easily populate it with contacts of your friends and colleagues.

Calendar

There are plenty of calendars presented for Netvibes.

Finance

We’ve noticed that for some strange reason, many business-like people take a great deal of interest in money. Thus, we’ve also included a finance module, which can display currency exchange rates, all the major world indices (Nasdaq, Dow Jones, etc) as well as stock quotes of your preference.

Clock

Although not of crucial importance, you can never go wrong with a clock. This one is analog and quite customizable. If you need to know time in more than place in the world, you can set it to show time for up to three different time zones.

Translator

If you need to quickly translate some text, what better tool to use than Google translator? This module makes it even easier. All available languages from Google Language Tool are supported.

Unit Converter

Yes, you can use Google for this purpose, but this unit converter is a bit more practical and definitely looks nicer. Besides, it can convert a staggering number of nearly a hundred different measuring units.

ScribblePad

If you’re a visual type of person who likes to scribble down little drawings when you need to concentrate, you might want to add ScribblePad to your online office. It’s a simple drawing module without any additional options, but it works!