Today was a busy day, but as with any other day, I manage to get my twitter bits posted as I try to keep up with work and stuff people are posting. Just before I went to leave work I noticed that @mrichme posted a tweet about something called g.ho.st. He simply asked if anyone else used it and what they thought, mentioned that it was an online VM type thing. Free..online..those words always peak my interest so I had to check it out. You simply type g.ho.st in your browser(because now we're not required to put the http header in ...the web is smart enough to figure that part out) and away you go. You're taken to a nicely built landing page that tells you a bit about the application and shows you where to sign up. Away I went. The only little hiccup I came across was during the signup process..firefox's addblock pro addon doesn't like this application so I had to disable it. After the signup and signed in and was amazed by what I saw. There in my browser was a fully functional web based operating system. The GUI was very similar to what you'd see on any other OS which made it easy to navigate. From the start you get 5 gb of free online storage which is stored on Amazon's S3 storage network and backed up automatically..also you get 3 gb of email storage. To me..that equals 8 gb of sweet internet storage space. On top of that, for every person you invite..you get an extra gigabyte of storage space. So for all of you who read this..my username is tim.levesque. Go ahead and type that in when you set it up. The g.ho.st team put a lot of thought into making this function like a real OS. It has built in productivity apps, it has a last.fm radio player, games..mail client..basically anything you can think of. It even has its own built in browser. I know, a browser in a browser sounds kind of ..excessive, but when you think about it, it's really not. You use the browser in the online OS and store all of your bookmarks on it and guess what..yep..wherever you have internet access you can sign on to your g.ho.st OS and have access to everything..including those bookmarks. It's an awesome concept and I'm sure I'll find some great uses for it. If not anything else...it's another free 5 gigs of online storage right?
Remember
g.ho.st
my username is tim.levesque
Enjoy!
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Thank you for writing about us.
G.ho.st® is revolutionizing personal computing by offering every person in the world a free Virtual Computer (VC) accessible from anywhere, in a Web page.
G.ho.st (pronounced “ghost”) is an acronym of Global hosted operating system and is written as the web address “G.ho.st”. The G.ho.st Virtual Computer includes almost everything you would expect in a physical computer – a desktop, file storage (like a disk drive) and a wide variety of third-party Web applications (apps). G.ho.st is hosted in a professional data center and accessed by users around the world using any web browser or mobile phone, with no need for install or sync.
G.ho.st® unique technology and team are penetrating the Wall (No Wall™).
G.ho.st virtual computer is located in the cloud and the user can posses any physical device. Also we are called G.ho.st because of the unique collaboration between the Palestinians and the Israeli working with each others around the real wall which is around 400 mils.
G.ho.st® is a real model for peace that has a great impact on the Palestinian economy as well as entering the Palestinians to the Hi-Tech Sector industry. We hope that this successful model will attract more and more examples to join.
Please keep on login to G.ho.st at (http://g.ho.st) and let us know your feedback at http://forums.g.ho.st
Thanks
Montasser Abdellatif
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