Among all our start.me users, we’ve found one real estate investor, who swears by using our product to stay ahead of the competition. His primary area of interest is The Hague (The Netherlands), the seat of government and home to most foreign embassies in the country. It also boasts around 150 international organizations, including the International…
With almost 60 percent market share, Chrome is the biggest browser out there. Trusted by millions, if not billions, it is fast and reliable. But did you know there are many chrome extensions available to personalize your surfing? You can find them all in the Chrome web store. As we are a big fan of…
Do you know if your kids are safe online? Are you sure they know how to find everything they need to get informed and entertained, but nothing more? Do you know about the dangers they face every day? In this post, we give some suggestions to help keep your kids safe and happy online. And…
Your Startpage should be yours, not some random collection of words and images some design or programming department has chosen for you. What do they know about you anyway, really? We at start.me are stern believers in the right to personalize the things you look at all day and every day. That’s why we’re proud…
Most people spend their fair share of time researching sources on the net in one particular niche. Usually, they don’t use cool widgets. Still, often they’ll need to return to specific sources again and again. Yet it may be challenging remembering where you saw that great tidbit of information, so next week you must do yet…
There are many features to start.me most users don’t know about. And that’s fine: that leaves something to be discovered. Today I will start a series of blogs about one of these ‘hidden’ features: Markdown. This easy to learn markup language is supported by start.me and allows you to add some extra style to your…
When you first start building your personal landing page at start.me, you might get overwhelmed. There are so many widgets. Anything goes, as we are proud to say. But not everything is helpful or even useful. To help you navigate the many ways to improve upon your start.me experience, we’ve selected the most useful building…
Grouping bookmarks in blocks is the primary function of start.me. Over the past few years we have added many smaller and larger features to help customize bookmark blocks: adding descriptions, icon and detail view modes, selecting custom icons, transparent backgrounds, et cetera. Today’s addition is not a huge new feature, but it will surely open up…
We google ourselves to death. Every day and every moment we’re not sure about something, we simply type and scroll as if it takes no effort or time at all. But it does! Especially when you have to look for the information you’ve found before. That’s just a waste. This is where our solution to…
Did you know that you can use the Embed widget to easily embed content (widgets, images, videos, etc) from external services to your start.me page? Instructions to add the Embed widget to your page: On your start.me page, click on the “+” in the grid Select “Embed webpage” in the list of widgets Copy the “embed code”…