Posts in desktop Category

Sep 13, 2008

Canonical Invests In Usability And Appeal

Canonical is investing in making its desktop more appealing and usable. Kudos to Mark Shuttleworth for taking this initiative. It is not very often that open source projects exclusively talk about appeal. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: desktop, usability · Tagged: canonical · (1)

Aug 28, 2008

Web Features In RIAs

What should RIA learn from Web applications? Chui has some interesting points. The idea of bookmarkable applications might be pointing towards resources, or at least a part of it. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: desktop · Tagged: ria · (2)

Aug 26, 2008

Task Based Desktop

All my interactions with non-technical users point towards the same thing, and quite boldly - task based desktop. Most of them are not worried about the application being used nor about what is involved in invoking it. In fact, I know some people who consider it to be a lot of effort to not only start an application, but even to remember doing so. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: desktop · Tagged: · (11)

Jun 14, 2008

On Desktops

I said earlier that I did not like the direction in which KDE 4.0 was going in. But the underlying cause can be perhaps found in Havoc Pennington’s post. GNOME 2.0 and KDE 4 are bad models for change. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: desktop, tools · Tagged: kde, xfce · (0)

Feb 25, 2008

Adobe AIR Goes To 1.0, But Still Without Linux

Adobe is about to release AIR 1.0, which means that AIR will cross a huge milestone. AIR is a cross platform merge the desktop and the Web, and develop rich applications. I think this is a milestone not only for Adobe, but for the technologies which can offer webified applications. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: desktop, tools · Tagged: adobe, air · (1)

Feb 20, 2008

Mozilla Messaging And It Is Thunderbird 3

Mozilla Messaging is a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, and as the name says, focusing on messaging (via Ars Technica). The plans, as David Ascher explains, are to build a great product on the existing Thunderbird 2 base. We’ve started defining what Thunderbird 3 will be, because we think that there is enough consensus to make some of the first decisions on the most important changes to tackle first. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: desktop, tools, web · Tagged: email, mozilla, mozilla messaging, thunderbird · (0)

Feb 19, 2008

Running Linux On Windows

Solutions for people wanting to use Unix-like environments under Windows have evolved. Started with Cygwin, it has now progressed to using a port of the Linux kernel to Windows, called coLinux. But now we also have andLinux, which makes it a lot easier to use Linux applications in Windows. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: desktop, linux · Tagged: andlinux, colinux, cygwin · (3)

Dec 5, 2007

Build Technical Credentials With CrossLoop

Yes, the same CrossLoop that started as an easier and simpler remote desktop tool. Its edge over the others is that it removes the technology from desktop sharing, which is why it has appealed to the common man. You can do many things with screen sharing, but the most important one being helping others with their problems. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: desktop, tools · Tagged: crossloop, desktop-sharing · (1)

Oct 26, 2007

Mozilla Prism

Mozilla has announced Prism, an effort to bridge the gap between the Web and the desktop. Mozilla Labs is launching a series of experiments to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur. WebRunner has been picked up as the first candidate for the experiments. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: desktop, tools, web · Tagged: mozilla, prism, webrunner · (1)

Oct 7, 2007

OS Market Share

Marius Oiaga’s piece on how Vista is scoring over Mac OS X and Linux got slashdotted. This should be expected, since Vista is the natural upgrade for the majority on Windows, and is offered by many manufacturers as default, which might change. Popularity of an OS is affected by two factors - marketing and education. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: asides, desktop, linux · Tagged: mac, vista · (0)

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