Thing 16

I think of all the customized "start" pages, I liked Symbaloo the best.  I am just simply not a fan of having a start page that requires a large amount of scrolling to find information.  Having the app icons to select what I am interested in viewing when pull up a browser is much nicer than having to scroll down to find it.  While I had to scroll down on the Ustart page, I do like some of the expanded features such as the weather and calendar.  After looking at each of the sites, I am not sure if I want to make one a permanent home page for my web browser.  I am still on the fence just a little because right now I have the page I use the most, Google Search.  I just like to look at the Google banner each day to see what they have come up with.

In regards to an online calendar, I have been using Google Calendar for quite some time.  I have it linked to my iPhone account and Wunderlist app.  I don't know if I really want to have it as a part of my home page when I open a web browser, but that is something that I am going to give some consideration too.  It might be helpful if the calendar was the first thing that I saw, instead of sports headlines.

One other tool that I have found beyond useful is Zamzar.  If this site is not on your bookmark bar, then you need to get it there pronto!  I can not tell you the number of papers that students have typed at home on old software that is not supported by newer apps at school that I have sent to Zamzar to be converted so that they can access and print them off.  Zamzar is just fantastic and beyond simple to use.