Web applications

Mozilla Prism (aka WebRunner) & Chromeless

• Old home page at Mozilla Project – http://prism.mozillalabs.com/started/ | Information – https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Prism
• The Mozilla Prism is now an independent OSS project: WebRunner – http://www.salsitasoft.com/webrunner/
• Chromeless – http://mozillalabs.com/chromeless/ – Mozilla Projects’s replacement of Prism | https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Chromeless
• Webian Shell – A full screen web browser built on Chromeless- http://webian.org/ – by Ben Francis which aims to build a “open source social media server for your home with a rich HTML5 web interface”.
• Taboca = Chromeless standalone text editor with Ace – https://github.com/taboca/Chromeless-Standalone-Text-Editor-with-Ace
• Mozilla Prism information at WikiPedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Prism

Embedded IE

• Is there an equivalent to Mozilla Prism that uses the Internet Explorer engine? – http://superuser.com/questions/11098/is-there-an-equivalent-to-mozilla-prism-that-uses-the-internet-explorer-engine
  • mshta.exe http://www.google.com/

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Related here: HTML5 – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/html5/ | Scripting user interfaces – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/scripting-user-interfaces/

Cloud computing

• “Cloud development: 9 gotchas to know before you jump in” by Bob Violino (ComputerWorld; 2011.04.25) – http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216124/Cloud_development_9_gotchas_to_know_before_you_jump_in?source=rss_news

Online storage

• YouSendIt – https://www.yousendit.com/
• TransferBigFiles – https://www.transferbigfiles.com/
• Dropbox – http://www.dropbox.com/
  • “The Cleverest Ways to Use Dropbox That You’re Not Using” (Lifehacker) – http://lifehacker.com/5527055/the-cleverest-ways-to-use-dropbox-that-youre-not-using
  • “Use Dropbox for More Than Just File Syncing” – http://lifehacker.com/5358983/use-dropbox-for-more-than-just-file-syncing

  Security problems:

  • “Dropbox Caught With Its Finger in the Cloud Cookie Jar” by Woody Leonhard (Infoworld; 2011.05.16) – http://www.pcworld.com/article/227999/dropbox_caught_with_its_finger_in_the_cloud_cookie_jar.html | http://www.infoworld.com/t/data-security/dropbox-caught-its-finger-in-the-cloud-cookie-jar-179?source=footer – Online file storage and sharing site Dropbox admits that it can see the data you’ve stored. Oops…
  • “Dropbox Lied to Users About Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges” by Ryan Singel (Wired; 2011.05.13) – http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/dropbox-ftc/
  • “How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings” by Christopher Soghoian (“slight paranois” blog; 2011.04.12) – http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-user-privacy-for.html
    Dropbox, the popular cloud based backup service deduplicates the files that its users have stored online. This means that if two different users store the same file in their respective accounts, Dropbox will only actually store a single copy of the file on its servers.
  • “Why I switched from Dropbox to Windows Live Mesh” by Ed Bott (ZDNet; 2011.07.04) – http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/why-i-switched-from-dropbox-to-windows-live-mesh/3512
  • Due to recent security problems and their bad policy about user data, you must pre-encrypt yall your data that you store in your Dropbox cabinet. TrueCrypt is one good offline encrypter: Dropbox TipsAndTricks > Truecrypt – http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/Truecrypt
  • “How To Add a Second Layer of Encryption to Dropbox [Updated]” by Melanie Pinola (Lifehacker) – http://lifehacker.com/5794486/how-to-add-a-second-layer-of-encryption-to-dropbox
  • Dropbox portable: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=33387
• Microsoft’s SkyDrive – http://skydrive.live.com/ – another online free drive storage [up to 25GB] – requires Hotmail account.
• use og GMail as the online disk:
  • GMail Drive shell extension – http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

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Related here: Cloud security – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/cloud-security/ | Virtualization Tools – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/virtualization-tools/ | Virtualization security – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/virtualization-security/ | Threats of cloud computing – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/threats-of-cloud-computing/.

Threats of cloud computing

The Edge (edge.org) has an article by Charles Leadbeater (“CLOUD CULTURE: THE PROMISE AND THE THREAT” – http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/leadbeater10/leadbeater10_index.html) on the dangers of the budding “cloud culture”.

The second replicators (memes) are getting organized better and better.

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Related here:

• Cloud security – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/cloud-security/