Learning by Screencast

This article and screencast (see below) is about using Netvibes and how it may be useful for you.

Netvibes is free web 2.0 service that allows you to customize your personal desktop in web-browser. You can make ToDo lists, add bookmarks and insert notes. You can keep tracking on your favorite news sites and blogs through RSS-reader, upload and download files using Box.net service and much more…

Keep tracking on blog and news feeds

With Netvibes you can read all your blogs and news sites in one place instead of browsing them all with web-browser. Of course, you can use some feed reader clients to keep tracking on news, but if you have computer at home and at work and both have feed readers on it then you must manage feeds on both computers. With Netvibes you have always your feeds near you where you can access internet with computer. You can also compose several pages of del.icio.us feeds of your friends and other people with same interests.

File storage

Netvibes has interface to upload and download files using Box.net service. Box.net allows you to save up to 1GB files to their server for free and you can access them from any internet-connection computer.

ToDo lists and Webnotes

You can have several ToDo lists to keep tracking on things that should be done. You can easily drag activities in list and mark them done. I have four ToDo lists on my Netvibes page: Important things at work, less-important things at work, shopping list at work, and personal ToDo list.

When you browse web and you find some text useful, you can copy-paste it easily to Netvibes. Sometimes I make copy from important e-mails (or part of them) too, so I can easily access them.

E-mail

If you have several e-mail accounts and you are tired to check them periodically let Netvibes do that. You can add POP3/IMAP4 accounts to Netvibes. Google Gmail and Yahoo! Mail are also supported.

Conclusion

I have been used Netvibes for a half year and I’m satisfied with this service. My post-it notes on my monitor have been replaced with Netvibes Webnotes and ToDo lists and I can access them from any computer with internet-connection. I spend less time for reading news and blogs using Netvibes feed reader.

Netvibes Screencast

       

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