Monday, July 27, 2009

The G.ho.st in the machine

G.ho.st running inside my browser in Ubuntu

MOST people think cloud computing as individual applications running over the Internet. Google Docs, Zoho Sheet or SugarCRM are good examples. But one Israeli company—with the help of Palestinian programmers—sees an entire operating system working out of a browser, and tying together any Web applications that you might use.

Called G.ho.st--short for global hosted operating system--the product is available free (http://g.ho.st) with no download required. Signing in for a free account gets you a customizable desktop and Web applications that run inside your browser, 15 gigabytes (GB) of storage for your files (hosted with Amazon Web Services), and another 10GB for your e-mail inbox.

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Monday, July 20, 2009

Fastest draw

Xara Xtreme 5.0, developed for Windows, runs in a virtual machine on Linux. I used the program to incorporate various bitmap images that I manipulated within Xara Xtreme to create this design.

GRAPHIC artists who only know how to use the most popular image editing software may not always be using the best tool available for the task. Certainly, they are not using the fastest. When you see Xara Xtreme 5.0 in action, you will understand how the British company that makes it can claim it is the world’s fastest graphics software.

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Monday, July 13, 2009

Who’s zoomin’ who?

THE press loves a clash of titans. Pit the Internet search giant Google against the software behemoth Microsoft and you’ll have them chomping at the bit. So when Google announced on its blog last week that it would be developing its own operating system, most news organizations pronounced that the undisputed king of search was gunning for Microsoft where it lives.

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Monday, July 06, 2009

New virtual machine

WITHOUT much fanfare, Sun last month released a major upgrade to VirtualBox, free software that enables you to run “guest” operating systems within a host system. The program works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris so it’s a versatile tool that can give you the best of many worlds.

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