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PortalPanel
PortalPanel (www.portalpanel.com) is a free web-based online bookmarking tool that also features a Calendar app, a Library app, and an advanced RSS reader. PortalPanel has ‘home page’ coded into its DNA. It’s a perfect superpage with capability to ‘rule them all.’ Its ease of use is outstanding and there are plenty of features to make this user-friendly app more powerful than anything else on the market. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and weather widgets will keep you connected to your online social life, the bookmarks section will provide you with constant access to everything you’ve ever stumbled upon online and found it worth saving, while RSS reader will keep you informed and entertained. And, yes, the app has the Google Search integrated, so you can run a search and bookmark pages as you go without having to open a separate tab on your browser or leaving the app. Bookmark page links and videos

PortalPanel stores, labels and helps organize bookmarks so they can be retrieved for later use any time. The app boasts a unique link scanning feature that produces a picture thumbnail of each bookmarked page. Whether you have five bookmarks in your home folder or five hundred of them organized in fifty folders, nothing jogs memory better than a visual cue. This feature alone separates PortalPanel from all other online bookmarking apps and makes it truly stand out. PortalPanel is great for researchers, librarians, students, journalists, sales professionals and anyone who has ever found anything interesting on the internet and wished to save it for the later retrieval. The app is absolutely free and it’s free of annoying ads (something that has ruined many similar products to the point of being completely unusable).

In addition to bookmarking webpages, PortalPanel allows bookmarking YouTube and Vimeo videos. Just like with the regular bookmarks, video bookmarks can also be saved along with unique titles and brief descriptions. From favorite songs to entire concerts, PortalPanel can help you build an entire music collection available at your fingertips, neatly organized and featuring distinctive picture thumbnails. Comparison shop or go house hunting

Video bookmarking is part of the smart link recognition system. Currently PortalPanel recognizes eBay, Amazon.com, Rotten Tomatoes and IMBD links, in addition to YouTube and Vimeo. Once the app scans a certain link, it provides additional information, such as opening bid price/item price, an image, and in case of a movie—user ratings.

Another app is the RSS Reader. Dubbed The News Portal, it focuses on the ease of use, content, and shareability. News Portal allows each user to create their own news stream, including the ability to customize the way they receive and consume the news. Users are able to enter their favorite RSS feeds or choose from a list of trending feeds recommended by the PortalPanel team.

The News Portal is designed to attract internet users familiar with RSS feeds and looking for a new platform, as well as those who have never consumed web content in this fashion before. While RSS will always remain a niche product, the PortalPanel team has stated they were not convinced of its imminent death. By making their News Portal shockingly user-friendly, PortalPanel stands a chance to attract users who would normally stay away from similar features deeming them too “techy.”