eyeOS poster project

While I was searching for an emerging technology for my poster for COM 435, I kept running across the words "cloud computing." I had heard of cloud computing before when I job shadowed the CEO of a small PR firm whose main client was a company working strictly in this new idea of putting applications, web sites, and the like in clouds that run from supercomputers in a different location rather than running on servers. After figuring out that cloud computing was too broad of a topic for one measly little poster, I ran across something a little more specific and something I could actually learn to use regularly. So, I decided to do my poster on a web site called eyeos.info. More information is available at eyeos.org.

A little bit about eyeOS:
eyeOS is an open source cloud web desktop. Basically, it allows you to access your own desktop from any computer or Internet accessible mobile device. If you can access a web browser, you can access eyeOS. Once you have signed into eyeos.info, you can upload files from your computer onto your web desktop. This includes images, PowerPoints, documents, spreadsheets, and other files you may have on your computer. You also have the ability to write your own applications and put them into the cloud.

Applications
eyeAddress Book: just how it sounds. Enter contacts into the address book and access it from any computer or Internet accessible mobile device.
eyeBoard: a public message board where you can chat with others using eyeOS.
eyeCalendar: update your calendar with events.
eyeDocs: word processor. Very simple.
eyeFeeds: manage your RSS feeds from your desktop.
eyeFiles: upload files from your computer to the browser desktop to access them from any computer.
eyeNav: a browser within a browser. It will keep your history for you to find the same web site easily from another computer.
eyeString: write your own applications.
eyePresentation: make presentation slides. A simple version of Microsoft Office PowerPoint.
eyeSpreadsheets: create spreadsheets. A simple version of Microsoft Office Excel.

Christmas music

Christmas is my absolute favorite holiday of the year. You really can't go wrong with the presents, eggnog, Christmas trees, and time to spend with family in friends. My only problem (not with Christmas itself) is the fact that people start playing the Christmas music way too early. I was in my car two days before Thanksgiving, and the station I was listening to began playing Christmas music. COME ON! I like to listen to the music maybe the week leading up to Christmas, but a month in advance is too much holly jolliness for me. There are only so many Christmas songs they can play then it becomes a game of who sings the exact same song better. If I could pass a law that Christmas music couldn't be played until at least the second week of December I would.

I LOVE Christmas but please please please don't play the music until December!