Be ready for Apollo

2007 will bring the launch of the much anticipated Adobe Apollo platform, a cross platform run time that will allow developers to take rich internet applications, whether they be built on Flash, HTML, JavaScript and/or Ajax, and turn them into desktop applications.Apollo will be useful for running desktop versions of critical web applications like email and calendaring, where offline access and application speed is sometimes important. Potential developers are already taking notice: eBay is working on a project called “San Dimas” to run on Apollo, although there are no announced plans to release it yet.

We’re excited about Apollo because it has the potential to be the launchpad for entirely new classes of startups. It could be the technology to watch for 2007. And Adobe is certainly counting on it to drive future revenue.

I had the opportunity to interview Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s senior vice president and chief software architect, about the upcoming launch of Apollo. Steve Gillmor joined me as well. Listen to the 37 minute podcast over on TalkCrunch, and let us know what you think Apollo’s “killer app” might be.

Screenshots below.

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Mojopac – maak je computeromgeving draagbaar

MojoPac is software die je kunt installeren op een USB-stick, een IPod of een externe harddrive, waarbij je je eigen bedrijfssysteem bijvoorbeeld Windows XP altijd bij de hand hebt.

Plug je USB-stick of IPod in een andere computer en je hebt de programma`s die jij normaal gebruikt tot je beschikking. Je kunt deze software namelijk gewoon installeren op de USB opslagmogelijkheid en als gastsyteem gebruiken. Je logt in op MojoPac en de desktop verschijnt. Maar je kunt ook nog switchen tussen de host computer en je portable USB-stick , IPod of andere apparaat met een USB aansluiting. Dit klinkt misschien wat verwarrend allemaal maar alles wijst zich vanzelf tijdens het gebruik.

De software kost deze maand dertig dollar; daarna moet er vijftig dollar voor neergelegd worden.

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Can eyeOS Succeed Where Desktop.com Failed?

The founders of Barcelona-based eyeOS hope that they’ve found the right model to create a much anticipated new market – the web operating system. Like desktop.com, the failed high flyer from web 1.0, eyeOS is a browser based “desktop” that gives users access to a variety of applications (word processor, chat, calendar, etc.). The free, open source project is set to launch in early 2007. I spoke to one of the founders, Pau Garcia-Milà, earlier today via IM.

Like Zimbra, eyeOS is a server based application that users must download and install to access (one reason that this is a server app – to overcome data security concerns by business customers). The company launched a hosted demo version of the product in June and has just over 80,000 registrations to test the service.

Essentially, eyeOS is like Goowy, except it does not run on Flash. The applications run on almost any browser, based on Javascript. It ain’t bad but it’s not a fully-functional Windows-replaceable operating system just yet. It has a word processing program, chat, calendar, RSS, and a Web browser. It is missing a spreadsheet and presentation program, among other things that would make it a proper OS. But it’s a work in progress.

The point is that it is a community-building effort. Founder Pau Garcia-Milá said that the company takes 90 percent of their development ideas from public requests via the Wishlist, wiki, or open forums.

“We really think that a webOS MUST be Open Source, for the simple reason
that a Web operating system tries to allow users be ‘free’ from their computer,” Garcia-Milà said. “If it’s not open source, you’re closing all of your users into YOUR server.”

eyeOS hosts the OS on their free server, funded through public donations. There are three ways to install eyeOS: MiniServer, which is the complete OS for Windows, MicroServer a lighter weight server for Windows, and Source Code, which installs the system under an existing server.

Zemble is a social networking site that allows users to text message en masse from the browser.

Zemble publicly launches Tuesday morning, after a week of letting the founders’ family and friends test it out.

Zemble is a social networking site that allows users to text message
en masse from the browser. Competitors in this space include Dodgeball and Twitter. TechCrunch has been following multi-person SMS
for a long time but Zemble believes they have something new. Users
create groups of friends, or Zembles, and can then text a message to
the entire group at once. Not only can users send texts to several
people simultaneously, recipients can opt to reply to all. While this
may be a new text messaging feature, I’m not convinced that it’s
preferable.

First of all, recipients cannot see who else was on the distribution
list so it is difficult to know who you are replying to if you reply to
all. Ludlow said that users can familiarize themselves with group
members so that they know who they are writing when they reply to a
group. I think that might just be too much to keep straight.

Even if I do know all of the recipients of my book club email list,
(which I do), do I really want a text message from each of them to know
who is bringing what dish to the next meeting? Not everyone has
unlimited text messaging as part of their mobile phone plan so is it
really wise to facilitate text spam?

To Zemble’s credit, they do allow users to turn off text notifications within certain groups. The site is designed like MySpace where users can personalize their pages and link to friends. As of Monday night, they had approximately 300 users.

Zemble was founded in Los Angeles in March.

“Our funding has come so far from a friends and family round,”
Ludlow said. “We’ve managed to raise approximately $90,000, which has
been good enough to get our product to this point. We’re open to
looking for venture capital now.”

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Photoshop Tutorial – “Pure Glamour” Hollywood-look photo

This tutorial will show you how any photo can be turned into a real glamorous and glorious shot, like in magazines.

“Pure Glamor” – make a Hollywood Look photo written by Lorelei © www.loreleiweb.com

This tutorial will show you how, in a few easy steps, to turn a simple photo into a “pure glamour”, just as in most of the commercial shots. Of course, here we used a good photo already, but using this technique you can take the most ordinary picture and turn it into a professional shot.

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