Start pages are always a mess in web browsers. Firefox put up a design contest for users to design a perfect start page recently. Be it Chrome’s most used pages or Firefox’s default Google search page. Well, Chome does the work to a pretty good extent not to mention opera’s and safari’s speed dial pages. But it is totally a different experience when you have the start page on the cloud that is perfectly customized according to your needs. All those web services on your home page for you to access at a click. Doesn’t that seem perfect.
Symbaloo - Start simple, is a simple interface that basically focuses to refine your first contact with the internet everyday. The symbaloo pages houses draggable boxes that link to your favorite web services like feeds, mail, radio, search, translate and what not. If even that doesn’t make you scream enough. You have free places where you can add your own boxes that link to a service specified by you. Now that’s too much YOU.

To set it as a start page. Just click the button at the bottom of the page that says “Set as startpage“. The following light box a the center of the screen gives you the instructions. OR simply drag the link http://www.symbaloo.com to the home in firefox.

To share files on a office or home network IP messenger is a great software. It shares files with no immediate servers in between and help accelerate the sharing process. Gtalk or Skype are other good options sometimes. When sharing through a browser Mediafire, Rapidshare and Megaupload always come to our minds. But they have their own down sides. Some require you to pay for premium accounts. All of such sites require you to wait for hours to upload if you are sharing a big file.

FilesOverMiles

If you have tried using Opera Unite (review by Saurav), reluctant to shift to opera now and want something like unite on the cloud. Then you are searching for FilesOverMiles.  FilesOverMiles lets you send files to anyone with no upload waiting times. The files are shared directly. With no servers in between the process, the sharing gets done fairly faster, especially between systems on the same network. When you upload a file to FilesOverMiles, it generates a unique secret URL. You decide whom to share the URL with. The files sent are also encrypted, thus it  ensures complete privacy.