My new Webtop (#3)

YouOS just rocks. I couldn’t dream of anything better.

Just allocate it a virtual desktop (Linux or using Virtual-Dimension under Windows), & open your browser in full screen.

Only a few things I’m missing:

• Option to create a new app from some Web site (as in 30boxes webtop)
• GMail inside the OS (Come on Google, adapt!)

 

The computing industry leader announced the killer phone

Watch yesterday’s announcement of the iPhone (image), if you still haven’t.

It doesn’t matter whether it’ll succeed or not, what matters is that it raises the bar & sets the path to all other stupid devices out there. I’m always amazed how they have a vision of where things are going, & they sit quietly & just deliver the best realization of this vision that then shows the path for the industry to follow.

 

Cool music on romanian radio 3

Romanian Radio 3 streams the 1001 albums it thinks everyone must hear before they die. I hope they pay the artists & that the listeners buy the albums too, but anyway, here are the coolest ones so far as far as in my humble &c [click to listen]:

• Duck Stab / The Residents
• Le Tigre / Le Tigre
• The Velvet Underground and Nico / The Velvet Underground
• In Utero / Nirvana
• The hour of bewilderbeast / Badly drawn boy
• Debut / Bjoerk
• Play / Moby
• Disintegration / The Cure
• Gorillaz / Gorillaz
• Time out / Dave Brubeck quartet
• The freewheelin’ Bob Dylan / Bob Dylan
• I see a darkness / Bonnie “Prince” Billy
• The YardBirds / The YardBirds
• Swordfishtrombones / Tom Waits
• We’re only in it for the money / The Mothers of Invention
• Surfer Rosa / Pixies
• Rock Bottom / Robert Wyatt
• Clandestino / Manu Chao

[Update Jan-17-2007] … that’s all, it was good while it lasted, but the free music seems to be over, please proceed to purchase the music properly.

[Update Feb-4-2007] … up again! Listen to as many as you can, & then buy what you liked!

Thanks Radio3net.ro!!!

 

Michal Rovner’s art & a local demonstration

I was lucky to see today an exhibition of this great artist, providing magnificent visualization of emergence, using projected video of many humans, seen as an higher level phenomena.

After the exhibition, in the Tel Aviv museum of Art, I passed by a demonstration against the keeling in Lebanon & Israel. It was an unusual voice, coming out of people deviating from the super-organism of Israeli society, which is quite united behind the massive attacks on the Iranian-backed pro-Palestinian Hizbolla. One must have a quite topsight vision to see beyond the eyes of his tribe & feel for the people in another one, with which it is in a war. Though obviously those other people are quite not to be blamed for the war inflicted upon them due to the terrorist activities done by a group backed by another country. It’s really sad that this area knows only the language of violance, & the poor people that just want to live their lives have to die or suffer. It’s only slightly re-assuring to see people saying that it’s wrong, & I’m quite admiring their vision & courage to say it.

 

My new browser start page

30boxes Webtop meta-replaced NetVibes as my new browser start page. Quite beautiful & effective interface! The web as platform is reality!

You add to it your web-based applications, such as:

• Google spreadsheets
• Box.net storage
• Your 30boxes/Google calendar
• TimeTracker
• Your webmail client (not supported, don’t know why)
• Pandora music player
• Your favorite content sites
• NetVibes content/services aggregator
• &c

I’m still missing there my other crucial apps, such as:

• Mind mapping, such as FreeMind (which I use instead of writing documents)
• Web-based development environment (e.g., for Java/Python/JavaScript)

A screenshot:

BTW, has anyone tried MIT’s YouOS?