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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Questions