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A photo editor is software that lets you change an image after it's captured — cropping, resizing, rotating, applying filters and effects, adding text and stickers, and, in more capable tools, retouching with pro-level controls like Clone and Curves. Online editors such as Ribbet run in a browser and also ship as apps for iOS, Android, Fire, Windows, and Mac, so the same kind of work is possible on a phone, tablet, or desktop. An online editor fits you if you want quick, template-driven edits and don't need a full desktop suite; a dedicated professional program is the better fit when you need deep, repeatable retouching workflows.

Basic edits: the everyday core

These are the tasks most people open an editor for, and they're the first thing to confirm a tool handles well:

• Crop, resize, rotate — fix framing and orientation, and match an image to a platform's dimensions.
• Filters and effects — one-click color and mood changes, from professional to artsy to just fun.
• Text — overlay captions or titles; Ribbet points to a large library of fonts.
• Stickers, frames, and borders — decorative layers for social posts, cards, and prints.
• Touch-up effects — light cleanup of portraits and product shots.

Ribbet describes its basic edits as drag-and-drop simple, which is the right level for social posts, family photos, and quick product listings.

Pro-level tools: Clone and Curves

Basic editing changes the whole image; retouching changes selected parts. Two tools mark the line between the two:

• Clone copies pixels from one area to another — useful for removing a stray object, a blemish, or a distracting background element.
• Curves adjusts tone and contrast along a curve rather than with a single slider — useful when a photo looks flat or you need finer control over shadows and highlights.

Ribbet lists both among its pro tools. Use them when a basic filter isn't enough but you don't want to move to a full desktop editor. For heavy, repeated retouching, a dedicated program with layers and non-destructive editing is usually the better long-term choice.

Collages and templates

Collages arrange several photos into one grid — for family albums, social media posts, or product roundups. Ribbet supports drag-and-drop collage creation and lets you create and reuse your own project templates, so a layout you like can be applied to new photos later. If you post regularly, reusable templates save the most time; if you edit occasionally, the built-in grids are enough.

What to check before choosing a tool

Pricing details aren't specified in the available material, so review the Pricing page directly rather than assuming a free tier covers your needs.

A practical example

Say you sell T-shirt designs. You photograph a shirt, crop and straighten it, use Curves to lift a dull exposure, Clone out a crease or a stray thread, then drop the shot into a saved template with your logo and a text caption. That's a complete product-image workflow inside one browser-based tool — the kind of task Ribbet is built for, per its own description of fine-tuning product photos and designs.

Bottom line

Choose an online photo editor like Ribbet when your work is crop-and-polish, template-driven, and spread across devices. Choose a full desktop suite when you need layered, non-destructive retouching at volume. Either way, verify device support, stock-photo access, and current pricing before you commit.

Startpage is a privacy-focused search engine that returns Google's search results through a proxy, so you get Google-quality results without Google tracking your query or IP address. Use it when you want Google's index but not Google's data collection. You can search directly at startpage.com, or use a "Let Me StartPage That For You" (LMSPTFY) link to share a pre-filled search with someone else. The main trade-offs: some features (like instant answers or personalized results) behave differently than on Google, and the site relies on JavaScript for certain functions.

What Startpage actually does

Startpage doesn't run its own web index. Instead, it sends your query to Google on your behalf and strips out the identifying information before returning results. That means:

• Results come from Google, so relevance and coverage generally match what you'd see on Google.
• Your search isn't tied to your Google account or profile. Startpage acts as an intermediary, so Google sees the request as coming from Startpage rather than from you.
• No search history is stored on your activity in the way a logged-in Google session would.

This is the core reason people pick Startpage over Google: they want the index, not the tracking.

How to run a search on Startpage

1. Go to startpage.com in your browser.
2. Type your query into the search box and submit it.
3. Read the results page. You'll see standard web results, plus options to filter by web, images, videos, or news depending on what's available.
4. Open results as usual. Startpage may route you through a redirect so the destination site doesn't see Google as the referrer.

If you want to share a search rather than perform it yourself, tools like LMSPTFY generate a link that opens Startpage with your query already filled in. The LMSPTFY page notes you need JavaScript enabled to share your search, and it offers a shortened URL or a preview of the search before you send it.

Startpage vs. DuckDuckGo vs. Google

The practical difference: if a result only exists well in Google's index, Startpage is more likely to surface it than DuckDuckGo. If you specifically want to avoid Google's index entirely, DuckDuckGo is the alternative.

When to choose Startpage

• You rely on Google's results but don't want your queries tied to your identity.
• You're doing research where Google's coverage matters more than avoiding Google altogether.
• You want a quick, no-account search that behaves close to Google.

Choose DuckDuckGo instead if avoiding Google's index is itself the goal, or if you prefer its instant answers and app integrations.

Common issues and fixes

• JavaScript required. Some Startpage and sharing features (like LMSPTFY's share function) won't work with JavaScript disabled. Enable JavaScript for the site if a button or preview does nothing.
• Blocked or missing results. Privacy extensions, aggressive ad blockers, or a VPN can occasionally interfere with redirects. Try disabling the extension for the site or switching networks.
• Redirects feel slow. Because Startpage proxies results, clicks may pass through a redirect. This is normal and part of how it hides your referrer.
• Results look different from Google. Instant answers, shopping panels, and personalized results may not appear the same way, since Startpage isn't your logged-in Google session.

A quick example

Suppose you want to send a colleague a search for "GDPR data retention rules" without them retyping it. Using an LMSPTFY-style link, you enter the query, generate the URL, and send it. When they open it, Startpage loads with that query already in the box, and they can run it privately. If the share button doesn't respond, JavaScript is the usual culprit.

A web portal is a single page that gathers links, search, and small tools you use often so you can reach them without opening a dozen bookmarks. An all-in-one portal such as WebOasis (weboasis.pages.dev) works as a startpage when you set it as your browser's homepage or new-tab page and then trim its link list to match your own routine. It suits people who want one dense launch screen for news, search, weather, radio, and text utilities; it is a poor fit if you need a minimal blank page or strict privacy isolation from third-party embeds.

How a portal differs from a search homepage or a bookmarks bar

A search engine homepage gives you one input box. A bookmarks bar gives you a flat list you maintain yourself. A portal sits between them: it is a pre-built dashboard of categories plus a search field, and most portals let you add your own links on top.

The trade-off is density. A portal shows many entry points at once, which speeds up routine browsing but adds visual noise and more outbound links to trust.

What WebOasis puts on one page

The page lists its sections directly: News, Tech, Twitter, Crypto, Stocks, Convert, Weather, ShortURL, Editors, Magnet, Stream, Arcade, Upload Image, Radio, Forum, Chat, Live, Todo, Text, FAQ, and QR. A settings area covers search behavior (including opening results in a new tab and search suggestions), custom colors, background animations, and custom backgrounds. There is also a Custom Links area with an explicit "Add & Remove Links Here" control and a delete confirmation prompt.

That mix tells you what kind of portal it is: a tech-leaning launchpad rather than a corporate intranet. If your day starts with checking feeds, a price ticker, and a couple of text utilities, the layout matches that habit. If you only need search, the extra panels are overhead.

Set it as your startpage

1. Decide the target. Choose whether the portal should open as your browser homepage, your new-tab page, or both. Homepage and new-tab are separate settings in most browsers.
2. Enter the address. Open browser settings, find the homepage or "open a specific page" field, and enter https://weboasis.pages.dev. Expected result: a new tab or the home button loads the portal.
3. Verify. Close and reopen the browser, then open a fresh tab. If the portal does not appear, check whether a new-tab extension or a managed profile is overriding the setting.
4. Customize links. Use the Custom Links panel to add the sites you actually visit and remove defaults you never click. The delete action asks for confirmation, so a misclick is recoverable.
5. Tune the search and theme. Set search to open in a new tab if you prefer keeping the portal in place, and adjust colors or background animation if the default is distracting.

Common snags: a browser sync account can push an old homepage back to a new device; some new-tab extensions ignore the browser's own setting; and a portal with animated backgrounds may feel slower on low-end hardware, in which case turn the animation off first.

Decide whether to keep it long term

Judge a portal on four things:

• Load speed with your usual settings, including any background animation.
• Customizability — can you add and remove links, and does the layout survive a browser restart?
• Tool coverage — does it replace tabs you currently open daily, or just add more?
• Link hygiene — are the outbound destinations ones you recognize?

On privacy, treat a portal as a directory, not a vault. Embedded panels and third-party links load content from other sites, so the portal's own page is not a guarantee about what those destinations collect. Do not enter credentials into a portal's embedded chat or forum panels unless you have confirmed the destination; prefer opening the real service directly. Also check whether settings such as custom links are stored locally or tied to an account before you rely on them across devices.

Used this way, an all-in-one portal earns its place as a startpage when it removes more clicks than it adds distractions.

Go directly to rte.ie in any browser to reach the official RTÉ homepage. That single address is the entry point to RTÉ's Irish and international news, its live TV and radio streams, and the broadcaster's other services. No account or app is required to browse the site; you only need a working internet connection and a browser.

Reaching the homepage

• Type rte.ie into the address bar and press Enter. The site resolves to RTÉ's main homepage.
• If you search instead, look for the result labeled RTÉ Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster and confirm the domain reads rte.ie before clicking.
• Bookmark the page once you're there so you skip search results on future visits.

What the homepage gives you

The homepage is a hub rather than a single article. From it you can:

• Read breaking news — top Irish and world headlines are surfaced on the front page, with up-to-the-minute reports on breaking Irish stories and international news.
• Watch and listen — RTÉ's video and audio streams for Irish news stories are reachable from the site, so live and on-demand TV and radio content sit alongside the written coverage.
• Move into sections — navigation leads to areas such as News, Sport, Entertainment, and Player, letting you go straight to the coverage you want instead of scrolling the front page.

Confirming you're on the official site

Because news brands attract lookalike pages, check two things before trusting a page:

1. The domain is exactly rte.ie — not a variation with extra words, hyphens, or a different ending.
2. The page identifies itself as RTÉ, Ireland's national television and radio broadcaster.

If either check fails, go back and enter rte.ie directly rather than following the link.

Common snags

• Search ads and aggregators can appear above the real result. The domain check is what separates them.
• Live streams may sit behind the Player section rather than the front page, so if you don't see a stream immediately, navigate to Player.
• Regional redirects or consent prompts can appear on first visit; these don't change the underlying address, which should still read rte.ie.

Once you're on rte.ie, everything else — headlines, live streams, and section navigation — is one click away.

A plain-text to-do list is a task list stored in an ordinary text file, so you can open and edit it in any text editor. TaskPaper is a Mac app built on that idea: it looks and behaves like a plain text editor, but adds outliner features such as folding, focusing, filtering, and saved searches. It suits people who want portable, future-proof list files and keyboard-driven editing, and who don't need a rigid productivity system imposed on them. It is Mac-only, and the developer describes it as finished software with no major new features expected.

How TaskPaper turns text into a structured list

You type lists as plain text, and each line is auto-formatted into one of three elements based on how it starts:

• Projects — written as Project:
• Tasks — written as - Task
• Notes — plain lines without the task or project marker
• Tags — written inline as @tag, and usable for filtering

Because the structure lives in the text itself, the file stays readable and editable outside TaskPaper. The developer states that TaskPaper files are future proof: you can edit them in any text editor or open them in other TaskPaper-compatible apps built by other developers.

A simple example

Work:
- Draft the weekly update @today
- Review pull requests
  Notes from the standup go here as a plain line
- Send invoice @due(2025-06-01)

Home:
- Book dentist appointment
- Water the plants @weekend

Each line is interpreted on the fly: Work: and Home: become projects, lines starting with - become tasks, the indented plain line becomes a note, and @today, @due(...), and @weekend become tags you can filter on.

Taming large lists: fold, focus, filter, search

The outliner layer is what separates TaskPaper from a bare text file. According to the site, you can:

• Fold sections to hide detail and shrink a long list visually.
• Focus on one project or area so the rest drops out of view.
• Filter by @tag, type, or content.
• Save searches so a frequently used filter is one step away.

The practical effect: a list of hundreds of lines can be reduced to the handful of items relevant right now, without deleting or restructuring anything. Dates are also managed in plain text, so scheduling stays part of the file rather than a separate database.

Editing and navigation

TaskPaper is designed to be keyboard friendly, with fast keyboard navigation and commands, plus palettes for jumping around quickly. Supporting features listed on the site include drag-and-drop reorganization, date and time management in plain text, import/export with Reminders.app (including Siri), LESS/CSS stylesheets for theming, an extensive JavaScript API for scripting, and Dark Mode.

Who it fits, and who it doesn't

Choose TaskPaper if you want plain-text portability plus outliner power and prefer to define your own workflow. Look elsewhere if you need a cross-platform app, a built-in methodology like GTD, or software under active feature development. The developer points rich-text users toward a separate app, Bike Outliner, and notes that TaskPaper has been in development since 2006.