Jolicloud: The Social Netbook OS
Transform your netbook into a sophisticated web device that taps into the cloud to expand your computing possibilities
Jolicloud is an Internet operating system that combines the two driving forces of the modern computing industry: the open source and the open web. It transforms your netbook into a sophisticated web device that taps into the cloud to expand your computing possibilities. Jolicloud was built to make the computer and web part of the same experience.
Jolicloud centers on a directory of applications that can be sorted by genre, release date, and popularity. To download or remove them from your computer, you just click on their icon and it does the rest. Jolicloud groups both Web apps and software programs under the same name umbrella, and both are added and removed from your system in the same manner.
There's also a normal add and remove programs tool just like you get in Windows, but it's easier to do it from Jolicloud's rounded and simplistic interface.
Jolicloud is designed to let users hop back and forth between apps that all use the entire screen. Apps you have open stay in a top menu bar and can be switched back and forth just by clicking on them. Alt+tab works too.
Interestingly enough, you don't actually launch any downloaded app from the directory screen. Instead, they're housed in a simple three-pane menu that users can hop back to at any time. This keeps apps organized by whatever category they were in on Jolicloud's directory, but it's also a little jarring after using Windows or Mac where you're used to a start button, quick launch menu, or dock.
One of the big draws to Jolicloud is that it takes this list of apps you have installed and backs it up. If you have multiple computers running Jolicloud that share the same account, it syncs up those apps, including any log-ins or shared data. This puts less of an importance on what hardware you're using, meaning you can hop from machine to machine and get right back to what you were doing on the other.
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