ZeroPC - the operating system in the clouds

The undoubted trend of recent years is accelerating all the "maturing" of online applications. Begun as an amusing experiments, web applications in many areas already competes with conventional programs, and in some places (e-mail, office, communication) and win. We can assume that soon the operating system in today's sense of the term, we do not will need, in any case, Google already hard sells its Hromobukami, in which the role of the operating system performs browser. However, if you can not imagine life without the operating system, you can take it with them into the clouds. This feature provides a service ZeroPC, expertly built in the clouds almost analogue of Windows XP.

ZeroPC - is an online service designed to integrate the functions of a wide variety of web applications in one convenient user shell. In other words - it's a real online operating system, in which the role played by the Internet software services, and in your networked storage appear as a hard drive.

To start using the service, you must create an account or sign in with your Google Account, Facebook or Twitter. Then you find yourself directly in the familiar windows-like shell, where there is a Desktop with shortcuts and folders, Shopping, Taskbar, and even the familiar Start button - all in their places. Now you need to connect your existing accounts in the popular online services, which run

Accounts Manager. At the moment, ZeroPC able to work with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Box.net, Dropbox, Evernote, Flickr, Instagram, Picasa, SkyDrive, SugarSync. As you can see, the list of representative and creators promise to expand it.

The total storage space of all connected services forms a single hard drive ZeroPC, in which the data of the individual services will be laid out neatly on the appropriate folders. Running the local file manager, you can manipulate them in the same way as it used to do in Windows Explorer, that is, delete, copy, move between folders and so on.

Many file types can be viewed using the built-in utilities. So it has its own image viewer in ZeroPC picture ViewerAnd to listen to music and video - respectively Audio and Video Player. For working with documents, text and PDF meets Google Docs and does so, of course, perfectly well. At the same time, just like in a conventional system, you can work with multiple files, no matter where you have them stored. For example, in the screenshot below I have opened a document from Google Docs, Dropbox and a picture from the same time the music is playing, reclining in SugarSync.

Besides being able to manage and edit files, the Zero is a great tool for searching data stored in your cloud storage and analysis of their occupancy. You can search using the field in the taskbar or in the file manager. But in order to at a glance all their "cloud of wealth" is a special program Cloud Dashboard. It will show you not only how much you place all and each service separately, but also to give a detailed layout of the number of stored content.

In addition to the above-mentioned programs, ZeroPC has its own instant messenger for instant messaging in popular networks, a simple text editor, email client, and even a web browser. It's funny to run a virtual browser in this, but it works quite quickly, has a nice interface and mnogovkladochnom generally looks quite decent.

As part of a small survey does not work to describe all the features of this interesting service, so that the setting interface, the addition of third-party Web-based applications and on-demand capabilities of the proposed experiment independently. undoubtedly, ZeroPC It is a very interesting perspective project, the development of which I personally am sure to follow. The presence of a single command center for managing all the disparate data stored in different cloud services in connection with the familiar, time-tested Windows interface can be claimed today. A skill programmers to build fast, convenient and sometimes even beautiful system only by means of web technologies worthy of the admiration. Bravo!

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