Tonido not only allows seamless access to your files and media, it truly is your personal hub.
With the latest Tonido 2.10.x release, there is a new feature to customize the apps that are shown in the navigation tree. You are no longer limited by the apps Tonido provides, but you can add your own custom [...]
Usually at the start of a new year, various tech pundits take out their crystal globe and after peering at it for a while will come out with their predictions for the future. Here’s mine.
If you have been following many of my blog posts, it probably comes as no surprise to you that my opinion [...]
Web apps are desperately trying to leverage the full power of the desktop. We had JS, Flash, Silverlight, all technologies that run locally on the client while still keeping your data on the server.
Here’s one more from Google called Google Native Client (NaCl). This is a browser plugin that allows websites to run full blown [...]
15 years ago, we bought less hardware for more money. This was a time when we shelled out $2000 for a 486 with 64MB RAM and the Internet was getting popular with the advent of email over dialup.
During that time, personal money management systems like Quicken or Microsoft Money only had a desktop version. Microsoft [...]
The central theme and the reason for existence for Tonido is the fact that relying completely on Web Applications is fraught with danger. Here’s one more evidence. Google has decided to shutter several of their Web Apps. The apps include Google Video, Jaiku, Mashup Editor, Dodgeball. Development will also stop on Google Notebook. While I [...]
Ok, it is a slow news day. The online Google RSS reader has a new UI. Interesting news, but nothing to write a whole blog post about.
But I just saw an instance on how true my previous post on loss of control in web apps is.
When I read this story on download squad, the writer [...]
