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Title: Where Does Your Desktop Go


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Where Does Your Desktop Go?
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Todays Purpose
  • To introduce portable and web applications
  • To demonstrate how they may be useful to you

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Meet Bob
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Portable and Web applications
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Whats a portable application?
  • Runs from any USB Device
  • Windows or OSX based
  • Wide Variety of applications
  • Open source / GPL / Freeware
  • Save settings
  • Save documents on USB device

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Examples
  • Portable Firefox (web browser)
  • Portable Thunderbird (email)
  • Portable Open Office (office suite)
  • Portable Gimp (image editing)
  • Portable Nvu (web Editing)
  • Portable VLC Media Player (music/video)

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PS Start
  • Allows for the grouping of portable applications
  • Can be used for any stand alone .exe file

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We Made Our Own.
  • Labnet Nomad
  • Allows for wireless printing
  • Allows for H drive access (home directory)
  • Integrated with Labnet system for authentication
    billing

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Who Would benefit
  • People using public labs
  • People who switch terminals often
  • Power users
  • Really geeky people

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Web Applications
  • Based mostly in AJAX
  • Platform Independent
  • Focus on collaboration

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Demonstrations
  • Basecamp (project management and colaboration)
  • Calenderhub (shareable calender)
  • http//www.ajaxlaunch.com/ (online applications)
  • http//www.thinkfree.com (office)

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Who Would benefit
  • Novice users with a need to manage projects
    easily
  • Collaborative projects where distance is a factor
  • Projects where interoperability is a factor
  • Users for whom finances are a factor

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The Future
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End
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