After writing a quick overview of Vivaldi’s Web Panels, we figured it was only fair to share a few of our favourite sites to use as Web Panels :)
We’ll start it off with a few sites that fall into the ‘social media’ category.
Twitter is probably the most obvious use for a Web Panel, so let’s get it out of the way as the first one.
URL to add: https://mobile.twitter.com/home
If you actually use LinkedIn, it works quite well within a Web Panel.
URL to add: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/
Neat way to scroll through your Instagram feed. You can view, like and comment on posts – for “Stories” you’ll need to use the App or web based version of Instagram.
URL to add: https://www.instagram.com
Audio/Video
YouTube
Works remarkably well as a Web Panel, I use it to keep track of my most recent subscriptions and will often have something playing in a YouTube Web Panel while I’m composing emails etc.
URL to add: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
Last.FM
One of the few music sites that functions within a Web Panel.
URL to add: https://www.last.fm/user/YOUR_USER_NAME
Twitch
Watch your fav Twitch.tv vids.
URL to add: https://m.twitch.tv/
Live Music Archive
Almost makes up for Spotify not working in a Web Panel. Almost.
URL to add: https://archive.org/details/etree
Productivity
Dropbox
Quickly access and even manage your Dropbox files via a Web Panel.
URL to add: https://www.dropbox.com/home
Google Calendar
It’s a useful way to take a glance at your calendar and quickly add events, but you’ll probably get a bit frustrated trying to navigate through much more than those simple functions.
URL to add: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r
Google Contacts
This a handy Panel to have if you use Google Contacts and are half as forgetful as I am.
URL to add: https://contacts.google.com/
Google Maps
Not really a lot to say about this one… Works well.
URL to add: https://www.google.com/maps/
Google Translate
Perfect for a Web Panel.
URL to add: https://translate.google.ca/m/translate
Google Voice
Make calls, check your voicemail, send messages – all within a Web Panel.
URL to add: https://voice.google.com/messages
News/Weather
Google News
Google News works quite well within a Web Panel, especially after the recent UI update (the one that everyone but me hates).
URL to add: https://news.google.com/
Google Weather
This Web Panel is really just a Google search for the word weather followed by your city and state/province/country, which in turn will display the weather results for that city – including a 7 day forecast etc.
URL to add: https://www.google.com/search?q=weather%20CITY%20COUNTRY
Bleacher Report
Quickly scroll through sports headlines including video content
URL to add: http://www.bleacherreport.com/ (I use http://www.bleacherreport.com/toronto-maple-leafs)
Scan through Hot/Popular or a particular channel, All, etc.
URL to add: https://www.reddit.com/r/all/
Hacker News
Looks and functions perfectly.
URL to add: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Diply
While looking for interesting sites to use as Web Panels, I came across Diply. I’d never heard of it and as far as I can tell had never viewed a page on that site. Did you know it’s the 29th most popular site in the US (according to Alexa).
URL to add: https://diply.com/
Buzzfeed
Looks and functions perfectly.
URL to add: https://www.buzzfeed.com/
Unfortunately These Don’t Work
Or perhaps a better ‘heading’ should be “I Can’t Figure Out How to Get These To Work”. If you can, please share the details via a comment below.
Spotify
Wants you to install the mobile App.
Feedly
The ‘sidebar’ that Feedly utilizes takes up too much screen real-estate to be practical in a Web Panel.
Pandora
Wants you to install the mobile App.
Messenger.com
Rumor has it this worked at one point but doesn’t now (?). If you’ve figured out a way to use Messenger.com within a Web Panel please share the URL to add in the comments below. Thanks!
Google Chrome Web Store
I’m not sure how practical this would be to use as a Web Panel, but I’ll never know since it doesn’t work at all.
