Symbaloo is my new home page
I remember a time when I used to have a static html page on my desktop, where I would add all the links that I would visit frequently. This page used to be my Browser’s homepage. That was till I found Symbaloo: my new home page.
Symbaloo is meant to be your home page. It is meant to be your desktop on the web. If you haven’t given Symbaloo is spin till now, you definitely should and there are many reasons for why (most of all its cool and easy to use).
Did I say that it looked cool? Well here is the default home page that it gives you (click for a larger version):
Most of these icons result in the middle area changing into something new. For instance, if I click on the Videos icon, I get a YouTube search in the middle. Most of the icons such as restaurants, hotels, etc. are oriented around local search. The service has locale specific search for a large number of geographies and are continuously adding more.
Anyway, this is just the default page. You can really customize this layout to your heart’s content. You can choose from a large number of other modules to add on this desktop; you can add bookmarks; and you can add widgets. You can have multiple desktops (of 3 different types: basic, news, and RSS). You can choose how many rows and columns you want to add. Here’s one that I customized with some of my daily visits (click to see a larger picture):
Notice the icons on left are feeds and if you click on them the widget in the center displays the feed right there.
There is a large number of ready to add modules, widgets, bookmarks, etc. However, there is also the ability to add your own (for example, the Computer Zen bookmark is something I added on my own). It lets you choose a custom icon which you can upload or choose color and icons from a library available.
I only wish that for custom bookmarks that I can add, it would automatically pick up an icon from the favicon of the site being added.
BOTTOM LINE: CHECK IT OUT. IT’S NICE.