Comments on: Make Mine To Go, Please!

By: Computer Ergonomics

Computer Ergonomics — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:50:17 +0000

“Even at home, I usually prefer working on my laptop … due to the ergonomic benefits”
You are confusing convenience with ergonomics! A laptop makes you work in terrible positions and provides a bad ergonomic setup.

By: jangelo

jangelo — Sat, 20 May 2006 05:05:44 +0000

I’d be glad to participate (as with other FG readers, too, perhaps).

By: Maggie

Maggie — Fri, 19 May 2006 22:34:14 +0000

Thought you might be interested in checking out http://www.diigo.com. Itâs about âSocial Annotationâ and it is delicious/ google notebook combined: clippings, tagging, caching. Plus a lot more â highlights and sticky notes right on any part of a webpage to serve as a personal reminder or even as a way to interact & exchange thoughts with other readers right on the very same webpage you’re reading.

We use a toolbar, but it’s packed with a full array of advanced web-based productivity-enhancing features. For those who don’t want to install the toolbar, many of our unique functions (highlight, annotate, forward, & bookmark) are also nicely enabled by a browser button without any installation.

It is still under closed beta. I would like to invite you to try it out. Weâd love to have your participation and hear what you think!

By: Matt Hoffman

Matt Hoffman — Fri, 19 May 2006 19:31:20 +0000

It’s great to have an incredible memory.

By: Marco (Griffith) Jardim

Marco (Griffith) Jardim — Thu, 18 May 2006 23:16:40 +0000

As great as the idea of a Web-based operative system might sound I prefer to have my files “with me”. The idea of all my applications and files being just a hack or malfunction away is horrible.

Sure, a hacker can get into my PC in any case, but at least I can physically disconnect it, and with a Web Operative system I probably could only sit and watch.

There are good and bad points about it. But I prefer things as they currently are: some online apps which are usefull and operative systems as the “base” of everything on it.

By: Justin W

Justin W — Thu, 18 May 2006 19:51:49 +0000

I was just thinking about this the other day and I realized that I too have at least 4 or 5 web apps I use on a daily basis. I have been out of the country for the past week and have been puling them all up from the hotel’s computers every time I want to catch up on life and work back home. The one main problem I have noticed is that there is no central app that can pull all of these web apps together – like a web operating system of sorts. Being a web designer myself I may just throw together a basic two frame page and host it on my server with the top frame being a navigation of all of my web apps, but it really would be nice to have an online program that did this more efficiently now that the trend is moving toward all web apps. Any thoughts?

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 18 May 2006 14:11:32 +0000

When will we see Google come out with it’s own operating system…you know it must be in the future. If all apps are going on the web, which is a GREAT idea, all they really need is a basic OS that takes care of net working and gets your PC on the web! Let’s put Bill in the Poor house :)