FLYABYTE was created and is edited by Raphael Fontes. Raphael is Brazilian and is a tech enthusiast that lives in Poland. He has 10 years of experience working for Internet companies and has been following the Cloud Computing evolution very closely.
Based on Moblin, Linpus Lite also tries to enhance the access to media and information in a nice visual way. Not convinced if I should move from Moblin, though.
Jolicloud, one of the most innovative OS for netbooks, has announced the realease on Robby, a polished version of their pre-beta software.
The main change was related to the adoption of Chrome as the platform for all web apps. According to their blog, the benefits are:
* Faster browsing experience on older netbooks thanks to the V8 JavaScript engine
* More efficient use of the memory
* Chrome extensions support within all web apps
* Perfect support of Facebook Connect, Twitter Connect, and Google Authentication
* Support of HTML5 features such as offline support and Web Sockets used by the Jolicloud platform
* Ability to render iPhone and Android HTML5 apps natively
* Good performance on ARM netbooks and tablets
Read the full story here.
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Do you like using application launchers and wished you could have one inside your Browser with your top-used web apps? Fav4 offers a great solution for that.
As the name suggests, you can add up to 4 of your favorite apps to your page. Using Fav4 is extremely simple: pick your favorite apps, drag them and re-arrange them as you like. The icons are very well made and the page looks great. You might initially have the urge to think: why just 4? However, after a while, you realize it is good that folks behind Fav4 put this limit, so you force yourself to pick only the pages you use the most. If you're like me, you probably spent hours organizing you bookmarks with your many favorite links but always ends up typing the url instead. Try Fav4 here. I have just set it as my Home Page in Firefox.Comments [0]
Just came accross this very interesting web application for musicians. According to their website:
Noteflight is a new online service that lets written music take full advantage of the web. The Noteflight Score Editor is a full-featured application that displays, edits, prints and plays back music notation in any standard web browser. You can create your own scores, choose to share them with others, or publish them to Noteflight's browsable, searchable online library of music. And it doesn't cost a thing: Noteflight.com is free for individual use.
Create your free account here.
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I'm much more excited about MeeGo, but we can't deny that Microsoft has been trying hard lately.
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Although I have high hopes about Chrome OS, currently the most innovative and pleasant to use OS for netbooks is Intel's Moblin. Actually, despite the few wi-fi drops I experiece in my eee PC, I have chosen this over JoliCloud due to amazing boot time, Twitter integration and aesthetics experience. On the mobile front, Nokia's Maemo has also been one of the most innovative in OS development, although still in the very early days.
MeeGo is the merge of these 2 amazing projects and I'm very excited to see what will come from this move. Both projects have already proven to be successfull, and the 2 companies behind it are serious and strong enough to keep it funded untill adoption passes the early stages.
Overall, very good news for the market and a good incentive for Apple and Google to keep improving further their mobile operating systems.
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I really liked the concept and would love to use the product. However, I am not sure folks will be comfortable to send corporate communication to a 3rd-party unless it is a company they reaaaaly trust.
I am interested in learning about how these guys will address this fundamental issue.
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I am writing this post listening to music from my personal library. What's new about that? The fact that I can do it from any computer I use (and from my iPod Touch soon).
AudioBox.fm is a sleek player that looks a lot like iTunes. It allows you to upload your media to their secure server and then listen (and manage playlists) from any browser (Mac, Linux and Windows). iPhone app is currently under development.
For now, they are offering a Free 250 MB plan, but soon they will provide different paid plans to allow you to upload your whole library, hopefully at a reasonable price.
So far, the experience has been great. Setting up the account was a snap and I didn't have any problems uploading roughly 100 MB in MP3 songs. By the way, sound quality is very good and I didn't experience any buffering gaps.
Create your free account at audiobox.fm
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