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Daily Cup of Tech & 35 Web Based Application Alternatives: Dec 17, 2007 4:06pm 2 reviews computers, web, freetools
http://www.dailycupoftech.com/web-based-application-alternatives-work-in-prog...; Web Based Application Alternatives via Google Operating System / Ionut Alex Chitu, in Daily Cup of Tech
Sometimes you just find yourself in a situation where you have none of the tools you need to get the job done. This typically happens when you are either working on someone else\u2019s computer or you need to perform some computer related task in an emergency. When you find yourself in these situations, I find it to be very helpful to have a list of web based alternatives available to me. This way, all I will need is an Internet connection and a web browser. This has prompted me to put together a list of applications and their web based alternatives. Now, most of the web based applications do not have all the functionality or options of their desktop counterparts but they sure are handy in a pinch. Also note that some do require you to create an account on the site in order to use the application. Web Based Application Alternatives Slowly Transitioning to Online Software I think that this SAAS stuff (Software As A Service) is going to redraw the way we use our computers and also our information and its storage. I hope this compilation of online tools is updated regularly it could be a useful archive. Remember all you need to use Online Apps is a good Linux system and Firefox. It's all FREE ! And you can get the hardware for less than 200 bucks.

Wired 14.10: The Information Factories: Oct 16, 2006 11:52am 4 reviews software, computers, web
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/cloudware_pr.html; The Information Factories via Arts&Letters Daily, in Wired Magazine by George Gilder. (senior fellow at the Discovery Institute) Eric Schmidt: "When the network becomes as fast as the processor, the computer hollows out and spreads across the network." Today Google rules a total database of hundreds of petabytes, swelled every 24 hours by terabytes of Gmails, MySpace pages, and dancing-doggy videos \u2013 a relentless march of daily deltas, each larger than the whole Web of a decade ago. To make sense of it all, Page and Brin \u2013 with Microsoft, Yahoo, and Barry "QVC" Diller's Ask.com hot on their heels \u2013 are frantically taking the computer-on-a-chip and multiplying it, in massively parallel arrays, into a computer-on-a-planet. The data centers these companies are building began as exercises in making the planet's ever-growing data pile searchable. Now, turbocharged with billions in Madison Avenue mad money for targeted advertisements, they're morphing into general-purpose computing platforms, vastly more powerful than any built before. All those PCs are still there, but they have less and less to do, as Google and the others take on more and more of the duties once delegated to the CPU. Optical networks, which move data over vast distances without degradation, allow computing to migrate to wherever power is cheapest. Thus, the new computing architecture scales across Earth's surface. Ironically, this emerging architecture is interlinked by the very technology that was supposed to be Big Computing's downfall: the Internet. URL: The Information Factories

Excellent article about what awaits us in Internet-computing. The story seems to go from mainframes to personal computers connecting to the Internet and ultimately to ever higher capacity big boxes where we find all the applications necessary to satisfy our daily work, entertainment and interests...

Ubuntu 6.06 arrives on time: Jun 11, 2006 4:17pm 1 review software, computers
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9139976226.html; Ubuntu 6.06 arrives on time Ubuntu is FREE and guaranteed to remain free in the future... I erased Windoze and installed Ubuntu a little over a year ago and I must say that I'm totally satisfied by this decision. My utilizing Ubuntu full time has not made me regret Windoze. Far from it. Ubuntu is indeed super stable and fast and easy to configure. I advise you all at least to give it a try, you can install it in parallel with Windoze and erase it later if you want so what do you risk?. in Linux Desktop by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols """ The Server Edition of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS includes a mechanism to set up a standardized, certified, and supported LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server with a single command. The feature greatly reduces the setup time for companies providing hosted LAMP services, as well as making it easier for organizations to set up and maintain their own LAMP-standardized servers, according to the team. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has already strapped himself in and taken two-day old Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake" for a test flight -- and he didn't have to bail out. "I took the slowest and oldest of my regular test systems, a 120MHz Pentium with a 10GB hard-drive and 64MB of RAM. This system normally runs NT 4.0 for testing older Windows networking. I was able to quickly and easily install Ubuntu Server," writes Vaughan-Nichols. "Ubuntu actually worked far better than the ancient copy of NT on this old server. If I wanted to get some real work out of my older servers, without sweating the details of pulling out services to get the right minimal mix, I'd look to Ubuntu." """ URL: Ubuntu 6.06 arrives on time URL: Ubuntu Dapper Drake survives test flight

Evil-Clowns reviews: May 25, 2006 9:28pm 2 reviews software, computers
http://evil-clown.stumbleupon.com/review/4175794/; Windows Vista still crashes. ha ha ha Thankfully I'm fully on Ubuntu. Men when I remember the assle with XP how confortable it feels with Linux. Thanks Evil-Clown for the post. in Evil-Clown's SU pages """ For all the Windows users who are concerned about switching to Windows Vista: Don't worry. It will still crash with a BSOD. """ Windows Vista still crashes. ha ha ha
The clarity of a crash...

Coming soon: ODF for MS Office: May 9, 2006 8:30pm 1 review computers, science
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6544650660.html; Coming soon: ODF for MS Office The power of OpenSource seems to overwhelm the power of capital. This is decidedly an issue to keep an eye on. in DesktopLinux """ Just because Microsoft refuses to support ODF (Open Document Format) never meant that someone wouldn't write a plug-in to enable Microsoft Office users to read and write ODF documents. Well, it's happened. In an interview with Groklaw's Pamela Jones, the OpenDocument Foundation Inc.'s co-founder and president, Gary Edwards, said the Foundation will be presenting Massachusetts with an Office plug-in that will allow Office users to open, render, and save to ODF files, while also allowing translation of documents between Microsoft's binary (.doc, .xls, .ppt) or XML formats and ODF. """ URL: Coming soon: ODF for MS Office URL: OpenOffice, MS Office -- peaceful co-existence?

The New York Times & Log In: Apr 15, 2006 8:32am 1 review computers, universe, quantum-physics
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/books/chapters/0402-1st-lloyd.html?pagewant...; Programming the universe Seth Lloyd sheds light on the communication mechanisms that underlie our universe at the micro-level. But this does not bring us closer to the ability of visionning our universe in its reality. As such reality remains as unattainable with the knowledge of quantum computation than it was with the knowledge of "electronic" computation... in the NewYorkTimes' First Chapters by Seth Lloyd. """ This book is the story of the universe and the bit. The universe is the biggest thing there is and the bit is the smallest possible chunk of information. The universe is made of bits. Every molecule, atom, and elementary particle registers bits of information. Every interaction between those pieces of the universe processes that information by altering those bits. That is, the universe computes, and because the universe is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics, it computes in an intrinsically quantum-mechanical fashion; its bits are quantum bits. The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer. """ URL: Programming the universe

3quarksdaily: Feb 28, 2006 9:00am 1 review computers, quantum-physics
http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2006/02/quantum_computi.html; via 3quarksDaily by Sean Carrol:
""" Quantum mechanics, as we all know, is weird. It's weird enough in its own right, but when some determined experimenters do tricks that really bring out the weirdness in all its glory, and the results are conveyed to us by well-intentioned but occasionally murky vulgarizations in the popular press, it can seem even weirder than usual.
Last week was a classic example: the computer that could figure out the answer without actually doing a calculation! (See Uncertain Principles, Crooked Timber, 3 Quarks Daily.) The articles refer to an experiment performed by Onur Hosten and collaborators in Paul Kwiat's group at Urbana-Champaign, involving an ingenious series of quantum-mechanical miracles. On the surface, these results seem nearly impossible to make sense of. How can you get an answer without doing a calculation? Half of the problem is that imprecise language makes the experiment seem even more fantastical than it really is �" the other half is that it really is quite astonishing. """

URL: Recent Quantum Computing Advance, Brilliantly Explained

Quantum dots talk to each other | Science Blog: Feb 21, 2006 4:27pm 1 review computers, quantum-physics
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/quantum_dots_talk_to_each_other_10074.html; Quantum physicists found that when the dots were arranged a certain distance from each other �" greater than the radius of the dots �" light waves traveled between the nanocrystals in a consistent pattern. In previous research, the light�s wavelength would change or become irregular during the energy exchange, which creates a breakdown in communication between quantum dots. The results suggest that there could be a way to transmit information using light waves, laying the groundwork for a possible optical quantum computer. In this device, light energy would replace the electrical charge currently used to transfer information in conventional computers.