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03-16-07, 02:16 AM
Google “Suite of Web Applications” (SWAp)
http://marcalibre.net/pic/GoogleHome_163.JPG (http://www.google.com/ig)A SWAp is not a single application but a Suite, with individual applications integrating to offer more than the sum of its parts. Google is more than search, and here are the applications that prove it. I prefer calling it SWAp rather than OS (for Operating System), as many people do.
To get started, you get a “Personalized Home”, where you can have RSS feeds along with applets like a simple bookmark list, to-do list, clock, and many others from Google and third parties in several categories: news, tools, communication, fun & games, finance, sports, lifestyle and technology. Your setup may span several pages accessed through a tab interface, and on every one of them sitting at the top is the Google search box.
My desktop at home has MS Works installed, which I very seldom use. Instead I use “Docs and Spreadsheets (http://docs.google.com/)” from Google. There is also a database application “Base (http://base.google.com/)” I have not needed yet. Presentations is the only application missing from the Office suite, and I would expect Google to buy one soon.
Add GMail with storage approaching 3GB’s per user, a Calendar application, a simple web page creator (hosted by Google) and a web clipping application “Notebook (http://www.google.com/notebook/)” that lets you store small bits of sites you visit.
This applications are very stable and do not require that you download anything. I used them on a daily basis. Actually I wrote this review on “Docs and Spreadsheets (http://docs.google.com/)” because I wanted to have it spell checked before posting it, and to keep a copy on my own file.
http://www.google.com/ig
http://marcalibre.net/pic/GoogleHome_163.JPG (http://www.google.com/ig)A SWAp is not a single application but a Suite, with individual applications integrating to offer more than the sum of its parts. Google is more than search, and here are the applications that prove it. I prefer calling it SWAp rather than OS (for Operating System), as many people do.
To get started, you get a “Personalized Home”, where you can have RSS feeds along with applets like a simple bookmark list, to-do list, clock, and many others from Google and third parties in several categories: news, tools, communication, fun & games, finance, sports, lifestyle and technology. Your setup may span several pages accessed through a tab interface, and on every one of them sitting at the top is the Google search box.
My desktop at home has MS Works installed, which I very seldom use. Instead I use “Docs and Spreadsheets (http://docs.google.com/)” from Google. There is also a database application “Base (http://base.google.com/)” I have not needed yet. Presentations is the only application missing from the Office suite, and I would expect Google to buy one soon.
Add GMail with storage approaching 3GB’s per user, a Calendar application, a simple web page creator (hosted by Google) and a web clipping application “Notebook (http://www.google.com/notebook/)” that lets you store small bits of sites you visit.
This applications are very stable and do not require that you download anything. I used them on a daily basis. Actually I wrote this review on “Docs and Spreadsheets (http://docs.google.com/)” because I wanted to have it spell checked before posting it, and to keep a copy on my own file.
http://www.google.com/ig