Free stuff I cannot do without -- Protopage

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Protopage.

I use protopage to keep me on the same page in between work and home. It is a nifty tool to keep links, lists, and what-nots, like a big online notice board with lots of sticky notes. This is a screenshot of my protopage. The sticky notes are retractable too: if you roll over the black tabs on the left, the content of the note appear.



Sometimes I am anal so all my sticky notes line up in a grid, but if you wanted to, you could overlap them to your hearts content, like this. Personally that would drive me nuts.



They have weather widgets and email widgets too, but I don't care too much for either. In my opinion, even the calendar isn't up to scruff. For my calendar needs I use konfabulator, which will feature in "Free stuff I cannot do without, part II".

Protopage loads up quickly and seamlessly with firefox, even on a lousy dial-up connection. There are many preloaded colour schemes to choose from; you can load your pics from flickr in a sticky note or as the wallpaper, and choose what colour you want each sticky note to be.

The best part? It is as private as you want it to be. You can password protect it so that only you can view the page, or you could click on a little "lock" icon on the bottom right to make your page public. Just a piece of advice: remember to log out after you are done if you are on someone else's computer because it doesn't have a time-out function like yahoo or hotmail.