Archive for September, 2012

Tuesday Tutorial: Importing Browser Bookmarks

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Tune in every Tuesday as we share a tutorial each week to improve your Symbaloo skills.

This week we introduce you to a new feature that has been highly requested by users, Importing Browser Bookmarks. We now have an easy 3-step process that allows you to quickly import bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. Below are detailed instructions for exporting the html bookmarks file for each of these browsers. To start importing head to importer.symbaloo.com

Watch and Learn:

To export favorites from Internet Explorer 8 to an HTML file

To export favorites from Internet Explorer 7 to an HTML file

To export Firefox Bookmarks to an HTML file

To export Chrome Bookmarks to an HTML file

To export Safari Bookmarks to an HTML file

Announcing the New Symbaloo iPad Web App

Today Apple made big news with their confirmation of the new iPhone 5 but over here at Symbaloo we have some big news of our own. Our new Symbaloo iPad web app is now ready for your browsing pleasure. Simply go to Symbaloo.com and your iPad will automatically display a new optimized version complete with a sleek new iPad navigation and no need to download an app from the app store. While this web app is optimized to iPad specs, you should have a similar experience on most tablets. Read more about the iPad app on our press doc here.


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Tutorial Tuesday: Get connected with the new LinkedIn Widget

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Tune in every Tuesday as we share a tutorial each week to improve your Symbaloo skills. This week we introduce you to a newly released widget for LinkedIn. Find this and many of our other widgets, by searching for the ‘widgets’ webmix in the webmix gallery or CLICK HERE.

Symbaloo iPhone Update 9/5

As of September 5th, 2012, we released an updated version of the Symbaloo and SymbalooEDU mobile app for iOS. Below are the new features that will make using your Symbaloo app even more enjoyable. Be sure to update your app and check them out:

Sorting Tiles:

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Now you can sort your tiles two ways. You can activate the sort by shaking your iPhone then dragging tiles to desired area. Or you can sort via the “Edit” menu.

Refresh Button While Web Browsing:

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We’ve added an option to refresh your screen while you are web browsing.

Webmix Tab Delete:

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You can now delete a webmix tab by holding your finger down on the tab you wish to delete.

Landscape View During Web Browsing:

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There is now the capability to switch to landscape mode when web browsing on Symbaloo.

We received a lot of feedback when the app first launched. Plenty of positives and some improvements. We tried our best to accomodate everyone’s requests. These updates fulfill a majority of the suggestions we received. We will continue to make improvements and add new features so stay tuned! We’d love to hear your thoughts so feel free to comment below and let us know what you think of the current update!

Tuesday Tutorial: Tab Filtering

Tune in every Tuesday as we share a tutorial each week to improve your Symbaloo skills. This week we introduce you to a new feature called tab filtering that will allow you to quickly find a webmix by using the search box.

Watch and Learn: