It’s getting interesting: The new operating system, announced late Tuesday night on Google’s Web site, will be based on the company’s nine-month-old Web browser, Chrome. Google intends to rely on help from the community of open-source programmers to develop the Chrome operating system, which is expected to begin running computers in the second half of [...]
This is a word-cloud of my blog as of the time of this writing. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The [...]
Please add to this list if you think of anything I’m missing. I’m looking for Web OSs and applications that supplant traditional offline apps… Aurora Acrobat Aviary Buzzword EyeOS Google Docs Px Picnik Splash Up Sumo Paint You OS (closed for business) Xcerion
So I’m reading this morning how Dell is following ASUS’ lead in embedding instant-on operating systems into their notebook products. The reasoning given is that [paraphrasing] ‘sometimes you want blackberry-like, zippy, instant access to the tasks you repeatedly perform 95% of the time but you want that access on your laptop’. The thinking is that [...]