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Top 4 Sites To Access Your Favourite Links From One Page

May 17, 2010
Top 4 Sites To Access Your Favourite Links From One Page

Streamlining Access to Your Preferred Websites

Numerous methods exist for bookmarking websites, ranging from browser-integrated systems to online platforms like Delicious and Google Bookmarks, each presenting distinct advantages and disadvantages.

A common challenge arises as bookmarks accumulate, becoming increasingly difficult to manage effectively. Utilizing a visually-oriented bookmarking website as your homepage provides a solution, offering immediate access to frequently visited sites.

These services often incorporate supplementary features, such as RSS feed integration, built-in search functionality, tabbed browsing, grouping options, and bookmarklets for simplified bookmark addition.

Favetop: A Personalized Desktop for Online Links

Favetop functions as a customizable desktop environment for your preferred links, websites, and online media. Setting this website as your homepage grants swift access to regularly visited destinations.

The platform facilitates quick population of your favorites with recommended sites, including Bing, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and Facebook. Settings allow for the removal of unwanted suggestions, or you can manually input websites individually.

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Beyond websites, Favetop supports the addition of online videos, photos, music, games, and bookmarks to blog posts and articles.

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While content addition doesn't require account registration, deletion of items necessitates a free account signup.

Favetop also integrates search capabilities, allowing you to choose between Google, Yahoo, and Bing as your preferred search engine.

Getwapps: Customization and Organization

Upon registration and account activation, you can begin configuring your personalized page on Getwapps.

A setup wizard guides you through selecting favorite websites or services, naming the list, and optionally enabling a Meebo Bar for chatting via Facebook Chat, GTalk, AIM, MSN, and other platforms.

Getwapps’ default homepage showcases a curated selection of websites, including Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. The appearance is highly customizable, enabling changes to titles, associated images, and even instant screenshots directly from your Getwapps page.

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Getwapps prioritizes organization, allowing for the creation of numerous lists with prominent buttons for each site. A mini list is also available in the sidebar. Notably, you can initiate searches directly from within the buttons, by adding sites through the Wapps Store – for example, Amazon.

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Only2Clicks is a comparable service worth considering, featuring a similar interface with the added benefits of tabbed pages, an iPhone interface, and diverse skin options for visual customization.

Start.io: A Minimalist Approach

Start.io adopts a streamlined design, appealing to users who prefer a simple and uncluttered start page. You can create multiple groups and assign websites to those groups.

An import feature is available, allowing you to leverage existing bookmarks as a foundation for your Start.io page, rather than solely relying on favorites. Links are presented as categorized lists.

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After configuring your links, you can control the visibility of your start page (public or private), specify whether links open in a new tab, and customize the background.

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A bookmarklet simplifies the addition of new websites to your Start.io webpage directly from your browser’s bookmark bar.

A coloured bullet point indicates pages with updates since your last visit.

43Marks: Bookmarks and RSS Feeds Combined

43Marks distinguishes itself by enabling the addition of both favorite bookmarks and RSS feeds.

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Default bookmarks and categories (Email, Social, Photo, Movies, etc.) are pre-populated, but can be removed. The appearance is customizable through category rearrangement, colour adjustments, and RSS feed display options (expanded or collapsed).

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From your 43Marks homepage, you can search using Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Wikipedia, and choose to share your page publicly or maintain privacy.

Do you employ a unique method for accessing your preferred websites? Share your strategies in the comments below.

Image credit: Ben Lancaster

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