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Web OS

1562ª Parte Pipio. WebOS Social

pipio

Aun no tengo muy claro si es solo un web messenger o un webos al que le faltan aplicaciones aunque la base es sencilla ir añadiendo aquellos enlaces que nos interesen así como a los conocidos, familiares y amigos para formar nuestro núcleo de comunicaciones, bueno algunos diréis eso es el 95% de lo que es internet actualmente pues si pero aun quedan nichos donde ponerse y mientras sean de gratis pues eso que por probar, hay que pedir invitación y el chat es cerrado si no estáis metidos no salís en la  afoto así que aquellos que buscáis intimidad y secretismo o simplemente confabular o hacer cábalas o cualquier cosa así (no sabéis lo que se están gastando los estados modernos en poder pillar algo y a álguienes y es que a pesar de los esfuerzos hechos para putear al personal la gente sigue pasando de tó). Así que  hacer el favor que vienen Navidades y estos cobran por prima y medalla y cuidado que aun andan Bushes, Blaires y Aznares sueltos Ximo

sencillo webos con su poquito de tó

Web OS

1515º Parte Lucid. Desktop para todos

lucid

Sin ser muy lujoso nos muestra lo que un webos o webdesktop puede hacer o se puede esperar de el,  lleva su poquito de tó, podemos ver una demo o bajarnos la última versión para el server ya va por la 1 y pico y sus requerimientos no son muy exclusivistas, calculo que bajo cualquier SO y con los plugins normales en cualquier navegador, de flash y java se puede apreciar de que va la cosa así que por qué no le tiráis una miradita Ximo

webos basado en silverlight

Web OS

1513ª Parte Windows4All. Web OS basado en Silverlight.

windows4all

Es un poco redundante ver el Windows dentro de un sistema Windows pero que le vamos a hacer, el problema aun continua porque tenemos que instalar el silverlight para poder ver este webos o webdesktop a través del navegador y eso solo lo podemos hacer si usamos el Windows al menos en Linux no está portado, como siempre tema apasionante y cada vez mas escaso y difícil de encontrar esto del web os o web desktop Ximo

A summary of today’s virtualization technologies and the distinguishing aspects of the different types of virtualization and cloud computing, followed by an overview of an interesting new online virtual personal computer service for thin client and smart phone – including the iPhone – users called AlwaysOnPC.

Screen shot of AlwaysOnPC desktop running on iPhone

One of the hottest topics in computing and communications is virtualization, but what exactly does it mean and how does it impact users of computing and communications resources?

Generally speaking virtualization refers to the abstraction of computing resources (see Wikipedia for more).  There are lots of different forms and formats of virtualization affecting platforms, computers, infrastructure, applications and services.  Anyone familiar with the internal workings of computing devices and networks is  already familiar with the most commonly used forms of virtualization – including virtual memory in PCs and servers, and virtual private networks used to deploy secure access to private network and computing resources over public infrastructure.

The proliferation of virtualization technologies, products and services has lead to an overwhelming array of options to both developers and IT administrators.

This article will focus on a specific area of virtualization affecting both individual and corporate users of computing systems and applications, referred to variously as hosted virtual desktops (HVD), web desktops, web OS and online or “cloud” computers.  These are various strategies for delivering user computing and application resources as online services rather than locally implemented instances.  In all cases these are “virtual” solutions from a user perspective, meaning they exist in physical form in the network on servers but are allocated to, and shared among, a number of users on an assigned at access basis.

Virtualization results in efficiencies unachievable in the local physical realm by minimizing the number of actual copies of a physical resource that are installed and made available to users on a time shared basis.  This efficiency is statistical in nature, meaning that all users cannot access and run any given available resource simultaneously.  In an situation where one hundred percent of a user body require simultaneous access to the resource, virtualization does not make sense in terms of either performance or cost.  Therefore, virtualized resources are often deployed in cases where periodic, auxiliary or overflow capacity/functionality is required.

One common implementation of virtualization technology is the shared application environments that can be implemented with technologies provided by designers like Citrix, whereby commonly used applications such as office or accounting applications are installed on the host organization’s centralized servers rather than on each user’s individual PC, and are run in service provisioned mode making them available to each user’s desktop but not actually running them “on” the user’s desktop.  The advantages of such implementations  include the possibility of deploying so called thin clients on the user’s desktop – less computing power and memory are required, therefore hardware cost is lower – along with ease of ongoing management and upgrade/maintenance.  The disadvantages often include lower performance, due to applications running on remote servers that may get congested as the numbers of simultaneous users expands, and windowing the resulting screen views to the user’s desktop or laptop system rather than executing the application in full locally, as well as hard limits to the number of concurrent users affecting licensing costs and availability.

These virtualization technologies, along with so called remote desktop solutions where users can remotely access their own home or office computers using a specialized client running on both the accessed and the accessing computer, make use of a technology called Virtual Network Computing (VNC) .  VNC software permits a remote user to access, login and operate a computer remotely as though they were sitting right at the remote machine.  VNCs use X-windows technology to present the remote desktop to the local machine in a window managed by the program itself, that also manages all communications between the two, and provides remote PC interface and operation functions to the user on the local machine.

Another interesting variation of virtualization appearing in recent years for computer users, and very recently for users of selected smart phone devices, is personal cloud computing.  Personal cloud computing takes several different forms, the three leading types of which will be covered in this article – including hosted virtual desktop, web OS/desktop and online PC, such as the most interesting new service from Xform Computing called AlwaysOnPC for smart phone users, specifically the iPhone.

Desktop virtualization (or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) is a server-centric computing model that borrows from the traditional thin-client/server model and is designed to give system administrators and end-users the best of both worlds: the ability to host and centrally manage desktop virtual machines in the data center while giving end users the near equivalent of a fully localized PC desktop experience.

So called web OS or web desktop services function similarly to the data center model, but do so for individual and corporate users in “the cloud” as opposed to within a corporate data center.  A key distinction in the case of “webtops” is that all functionality available to the user, as well as the user interface, is presented via a web browser program.  This type of implementation has the advantage of being flexible for the user – with any standard web browser (this of course represents some issues in its own right given all the variance in browser design, implementation and rendering engine componentry) they can access the online service from any broadband Internet enabled computer.  The disadvantages are principally focused on performance issues.  Advanced interactive functionality can be implemented in browser based applications using AJAX, asynchronous javascript with XML.  One familiar web application suite many readers will be familiar with is Google Apps.  Google Apps can be accessed an run from a standard web browser, with no custom software or non-standard (e.g. Flash) plugins required on the user’s computer.  These are proprietary implementations of the actual programs in the case of Google Docs, so compatibility with typical programs and data files users deploy on their desktop, such as MS Office programs, is not guaranteed or typically provided.

The last strategy, one that implements essentially a hybrid strategy, with a local VNC application optimized for the device employed on the client which accesses network based services, but in this case the network accessed service is not merely a single application, application suite or online virtual desktop attempting to simulate some aspect of a user’s local PC experience.  Rather it is a complete online personal computer, that can be configured and operates from a user’s perspective much the same way their local PC does.  Users can set the virtual machine up with a look and feel similar to their home or office PCs, including a fully customizable desktop configuration, and are presented with a complete online virtual PC complete with applications and utilities that they can run on any broadband internet enabled device, even a smart phone – much like they would with a VNC accessing their home or office PC from a different, remotely located machine, except in this case the entire PC is online in the cloud.

Screen shot of AlwaysOnPC desktop running on iPhone

One very good example is the latest online PC service from Xform Computing called AlwaysOnPC.  With AlwaysOnPC users are presented with a securely accessed, fully configurable and customizable online virtual PC that includes a variety of standard applications for personal and professional productivity, communications and games, as well as online storage that acts like the hard drive on a local computer system and permits users to upload files to their online PC, and then access and run those from any Internet connected device, including an iPhone with the AlwaysOnPC VNC client installed.

The result is maximum flexibility and ubiquitous access, from any Internet connected device running the Java based VNC client, which users can download from the provider’s web site for any Linux, Mac or Windows PC as well as purchase from leading smart phone application stores, like Apple’s iTunes App Store for specialized mobile devices.

AlwaysOnPC provides a rich set of built-in applications that can be run from any Internet connected computer as well as the user’s iPhone – according to the company, other smart phone devices as well as subscription based services for PC only users will be available starting in the fourth quarter of 2009.  The built-in application set includes OpenOffice, the world’s leading MS Office compatible professional productivity suite with word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and project management programs.  Also provided are Evolution, an Outlook class messaging client, Firefox for web browsing, graphics and photo management programs and quite a bit more including system admin utilities – admittedly for power users since AlwaysOnPC does all the normal system admin for its users automatically – IM, games and more.  Each user’s account comes complete with 2GB of secure online file storage which allows users to upload files from home or office PCs to run on AlwaysOnPC, even on their iPhone.

Screen shot of Firefox web browser running on AlwaysOnPC for iPhone

For more information on this exciting new service check out the company’s web site.  You can watch interesting How To videos on the company’s You Tube channel.

Please let us know your impressions of these and any other interesting virtual PC services you may come across.

For an example of what a Web-based working desktop might look like visit Cloudo.com or wiki-os.org for two good but different approaches to this. So what does this mean to service management and even more so semantics. Well it is a little early to think that the Web desktop will replace the typical Windows desktop and to see applications migrate overnight but it is what is underneath which is important.

This is one of the most annoying features of Google. This one really makes me literally stand up and start cursing in my cubicle and all my neighbours know I’ve got a mail on gmail! I click on the gtalk notification and it opens up my mail. You know what? I can’t operate on it! Is this going to replace my outlook experience? Does Google really really really believe that? There really have got to be morons sitting behind the scenes who’re secretly using all the benefits of outlook or whatever internal tool Google has for their own mail.

As you read this mail, forget the rational critique below (becuase it’s taking a lot of effort on my part to write it), and imagine me uttering the worst curses imaginable.

When I open my mail, I want to make a decision. What retard reads their mail and then does nothing about it? I know Google doesn’t want people deleting their mails, then at least allow me to tag it, flag it, label it, categorise it, forward it, reply to it, whatever! I use mail because it serves a purpose for me. Nothing except “remove from inbox” is an option. So basically from having a perfectly categorised mail, all google wants me to do is remove a tag that’ll make the message uncategorised and lost in the depths of my inbox forever, which graciously Google will allow to expand infinitely. Imagine having a thousand spam messages removed from inbox and kept as uncategorised. You can’t even mark a message as spam on that dialog (uhmm…. sorry I meant “page”).

Holy Hell, who ever thinks gmail’s interface is good has got to be kidding me! Clicking on “inbox” opens up a new window! What the hell do they expect me to do with my old window? I have a window with a perfectly legible message. Now I want to do something about that message so I want to go to my inbox. But apparently my previous page’s purpose isn’t over yet. Ctrl+click doesn’t open it in a new tab either. No…. Google – the guys who want to define the desktop of the web, clutter my perfectly functioning desktop with a new window! Do they hire some sort of kindergarten kids to design this stuff?

Once at the inbox, you have 10 unread messages. You want to go over each message in order – tough luck. It’s the new “Web Desktop” – what good would it be unless you got the feel of clicking through links a lot? With a UX design that only idiots who designed the annoyances above could boast of, you have to go back to inbox every single time and find the “next” message you probably were looking for.

Imagine a whole lot of curses at this point. What the hell is going on? People if you have any sanity, please send mails to my perfectly functioning yahoo account which allows me to do stuff with the mail you send me. Sending it to gmail is a one-way ticket to me clicking on that “x” beside the inbox link and your mail plummetting into the spam-riddled depths of the uncategorised messages I have.

algo se resiste a desaparecer

Web OS

1254ª Parte Aalilaa. Un web desktop

aalilaa

Bueno a mi me recuerda al desaparecido YouOS aunque aun no tiene tanta aplicación como aquel tenía en fin a rey muerto rey puesto que es un decir claro, a seguir, viene con demo incluida y la posibilidad de tener nuestra propia cuenta Ximo

webos para móviles también

Web OS

1220ª Parte G.ho.st. Pedazo de Web OS y ahora también en móviles

ghost

Pues si aun no lo habéis visto, probado, usado es porque no queréis este tipo de aplicaciones web conjuntadas para ayudaros en vuestras tareas diarias, esta nueva versión viene con mas idiomas, entre ellas el español y mas aplicaciones entre ellas web messengers All programs–> Social–> Instant Messenging Services, mas espacio eso ir descubriendolo vosotros mismos, para simplemente verlo le dáis al botón fantasmilla de la derecha y si os queréis apuntar al de la izquierda, y es gratis Ximo

conjunto de aplicaciones web

Web OS

1219ª Parte Tonido. Plataforma de aplicaciones

tonido

Plataforma de aplicaciones web multi sistema operativo, trabaja en windows, linux y mac que se puede hacer mas extensible al añadir mas aplicaciones por ahora tiene album de fotos, reproductor de música, compartición en web y espacio de trabajo. Está concebida para compartir privadamente y sincronizar entre equipos datos, os podéis crear vuestra propia red para compartir. Los datos siempre están en la máquina de uno y las aplicaciones antes mencionadas online a traves del navegador hay que pedir invitación para poder bajarse la aplicación. Ximo

RAMALLAH, PALESTINE; MODI’IN, ISRAEL. Feb 23, 2009. The G.ho.st Virtual Computer (VC) today introduced a revolutionary patent-pending feature allowing users to have their desktop and file storage in the cloud and still take advantage of their favorite local applications like Microsoft Office.
“Up to now users had to choose between the advantages of the Virtual Computer – available everywhere, no admin, free of charge – versus the familiarity of Microsoft Office, said CEO, Zvi Schreiber, “now, the two work together perfectly at the click of a button”.
The G.ho.st Virtual Computer Web OS provides a personal desktop, applications and 5GB of files storage, called the G.ho.st Drive, all inside a web page at http://g.ho.st. Now, any document of type .doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .xls, .xlsx which is uploaded to the G.ho.st Drive or created in the G.ho.st Drive can be edited directly in Microsoft Office, if available on the local computer, by simply pressing “Edit in MS Office”. When MS Office is not available, users always have the Zoho® office suite available within their G.ho.st Virtual Computer.
This latest G.ho.st release also includes faster performance, a media library, importing of bookmarks and tagging.

About G.ho.st®
G.ho.st® offers every person in the world a free Virtual Computer (VC). G.ho.st is simply pronounced “ghost”, an acronym of Global hosted operating system but is written G.ho.st with two dots because a URL (web address) must have dots! The G.ho.st Virtual Computer includes almost everything you would have in a physical computer – a desktop, file storage (like a disk drive) and applications (apps).
But unlike a physical computer, your Virtual Computer (VC) is “hosted” in a professional data center somewhere in the Internet “cloud” and is accessible as a web page in any browser. You can run the entire G.ho.st VC from any Internet browser without the need to install any software or “sync” files. Just enter your username and password, and continue using your VC from exactly the state you last left it in.
G.ho.st® is revolutionizing personal computing by providing you with a personal computing environment which is free of charge and which is accessible from any device – mobile or desktop – without the need for install or sync. G.ho.st® frees you from being tied to any one device – you can change computer or use shared computers as often as you like.

G.ho.st® Contact:
Montasser Abdellatif,
Manager, MarCom
Ghost Inc.,

Do you ask yourself sometimes, where in the world is this country? This widget shows each country of the world on the map. Either select it from the list or jump around randomly.

Go and download it from here.

Don’t miss the iPhone version of this widget:

Do you ask yourself sometimes, where in the USA is this state? This widget shows each state of the USA on the map. Either select it from the list or jump around randomly.

Go and download it from here.

Don’t miss the iPhone version of this widget:

webos sencillo y completo

Web OS

1035ª Parte Webxos. Webos sencillo

webxos

demo

Trae su poquito de todo y aunque no se ve muy espectacular cumple con las exigencias del guión Ximo

webos para ver

Web OS

1034ª Parte Ego7. Web OS de buen ver

ego7

Bueno hace tiempo que no veía un look&feel de este tipo es mas me recuerda algún estilo visto en la API de algún SO aunque ya hace tiempo que no los veo creo que es por no usarlos ahora, algo así como el AROS y el QNX un tanto antiguo en fin para ver y aprender Ximo

webos macarra

Web OS

1014ª Parte webX. Web OS sencillo

webx

Pues parece que está mas especializado en la ofimática que en otra cosa tiene aplicaciones de Zoho y un aspecto de MacOS en fin a seguir a ver como evoluciona Ximo

I’ve just read Mark Shuttleworths post to the Ubuntu Development mailing-list and I must say it got me a bit excited.

In his post he mentions that the focus of the next release of Ubuntu, the one after Intreprid Ibex, namely 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” will, amongst other things, focus on “the blurring of web services and desktop applications” which, if done right, will be extremely cool and also give Ubuntu a real edge over OS X and Vista.

It also got me thinking about projects such as Empathy, Gimmie and Soylent. Just imagine the things these programs can do, implemented properly in an Ubuntu Gnome kind of way… pure bliss.

When I think of this, I immediately also think that we should try to step away from the program analogy and focus on tasks instead.

You shouldn’t have to locate F-Spot in the menu, but click “Pictures”; if you prefer something other than F-Spot, change it in the preferences (and yes, this should include a way to “launch” Photobucket, Flickr, etc.). The same with instant messaging, you shouldn’t have to start Pidgin, you should have a “People” or “Contacts” entry in the main menubar with all your IM contacts, email contacts, heck, even Facebook contacts listed, each with a submenu giving you the option to contact them in different ways: video, chat, email – like Soylent in a menu.

Ubiquity already implements a lot of what I have in mind, but it’s still inside the browser, it should be part of the desktop, also it uses English language to do the task, it should use the desktop interface (though language based operation shouldn’t be ignored, it should still be an option – like in GNOME Do, which has a nice graphical way of showing what you are requesting).

Ideas such as this have been posted numerous times, but have yet to be included in any standard desktop – I sincerely hope Jaunty Jackalope will change this.

Retrieve the synonym for every word. If available you will get antonyms, related terms, similar word and user suggestions too. Click one of the results to start a quick new search for that term. As well it keeps a history list of your search terms.

Thesaurus service provided by words.bighugelabs.com.

Go and download it from here.

Don’t miss the iPhone version of this widget:

With their new Chrome browser Google just threw their hat into the ring. Of course we were curious to see how Widgetop would look like:

Not to our surprise it works very well right out of the box because it is based on the WebKit engine (used by Apple for the Safari browser). Google spent a lot of effort to make it the perfect browser for web applications like our Widgetop desktop. It’s really fast because they sped up the javascript engine. Moreover you can easily create an application shortcut which you can put on the Windows desktop, start menu or quick launch (similar to Prism or Fluid):

• Open the Widgetop desktop in Chrome
• Open the menu and select Create application shortcuts
• Choose the shortcuts you want to create

And don’t forget, in addition to your own Widgetop desktop you can create shortcuts to one of Widgetop’s publicly shared desktops.

Quite a while ago we showed you how to integrate the Widgetop webtop into your Windows desktop or your Linux desktop with the help of Mozillas Prism platform. While you can use Prism to add Widgetop to your Mac there is a much better alternative – Fluid. Its current version is much better integrated into the Mac desktop then Prism (but requires Leopard though).

Just download Fluid, run it and create a new entry for Widgetop. You will get:

• A link to Widgetop in your Programs folder.
• Run it and you will see the Widgetop icon appear in the dock like any other Mac application. Just login to your desktop (or create a new account) and your Widgetop desktop is just a click away.
• By choosing Convert to Embedded SSB from the Widgetop menu you can even put your widgets on the Mac desktop itself.

Hints:

• In addition to your own Widgetop desktop you can run one or many of the shared desktops from http://www.widgetop.com/shared.html. Just give them a distinct icon for better differentiation.
• If you want to use better icon you can download and use this:
  

We just made our new Photo Finder widget available on the Widgetop web desktop and on our downloads page.

Get inspired by finding out what photos others have shot on a certain location. Adjust the map to the area you want and get the most popular or most recent photos from Panoramio. You can put this application as a widget on your website from http://photofinderwidget.speedymarks.com.

Go and download it from here.

Don’t miss the iPhone version of this widget: photofinder.speedymarks.com

We just made our new Photo Slideshow widget available on the Widgetop web desktop and on our downloads page.

This widgets displays slide shows from images in RSS feeds. Either select the most recent feed from Flickr or Photobucket or enter your own feed URL. The feed can parameterized by using %s in the URL which will be replaced by the tags from the front side.

Go and download it from here.

Don’t miss the iPhone version of this widget: phototags.speedymarks.com

We enhanced the Add RSS Feeds section to easily add image slideshows to your Widgetop desktop. Just enter the URL of an RSS feed which contains images (e.g. from Flickr or Photobucket) and press the Add Slideshow button:

This will add our new Slideshow widget to your dewsktop:

Running iPhone web applications in the browser sidebar becomes more and more popular. And it makes sense because the iPhone and the browser sidebar share the same small width restriction.

Therefore we made the little tweaks to optimize our mobile desktop for the sidebar of Firefox and the Opera panels.

How to run in Firefox sidebar:

• Open http://m.widgetop.com?ForceOnDevice and bookmark the page
• Open the properties for the just created bookmark and check Load this bookmark in the sidebar
• You might want to move the bookmark to the bookmark toolbar for quick access

How to add to Opera Panels:

Just click this link.

Our very popular Language Translator widget (#1 on Apple’s Top 50 list for several weeks) has been updated to a new version. Now it translates text between 22 different foreign languages.

You can download the update from here or test it on Widgetop before.