Google Chrome OS will bring a lot of changes

As stated on this blog, Google will be working on an Operation System and is call Google Chrome OS. These announcement means a lot of things.

Netbook Era

Netbook will greatly benefit from this OS. In hardware's point of view netbook was created mainly for web use, while there are a lot of attempt in making existing OS to run efficiently this time it got more serious. We'll likely to have a real instant boot OS, and web application to perform like desktop application. This make netbook more fun and exciting and sooner it will have a market share bigger than desktop and laptops.

Application Development

No doubt that everybody is going for web as a platform for development. With this HTML 5 and Javascript will be greatly benefited. With Google Chrome OS, it looks like HTML 5 and Javascript will be the default or native language for development. With HTML 5 multimedia capabilities and offline storage are such a good addition that it almost makes it a complete language. We'll likely to see Javascript perform like C, and perhaps having an access on the OS API. There's a possibility new language will come out to rival against Javascript. I wonder how is Flash, Silverlight, and Java going to be supported in this OS.

Internet connection

The OS will be nothing if it has no internet access. This will make the mobile internet coverage will grow, either by wifi/wimax, 3g. I hope this opportunity that the OS will bring could make the mobile internet more affordable.

Lots of good and bad things will come, as I am excited to see how the consumer/end user benefited from this OS. I like to see how other OS maker will respond like Microsoft, Apple, Linux dist..

Backup & sync your files easily with Dropbox

Dropbox is one of my favorite web applications and I must say that I can't live without it. I don't know many people using it, so a lot of people are really missing this great stuff. I've been using Dropbox for almost a year now. It has helped me a lot with my work, and have onced saved me when I accidentally deleted a folder by overwriting the new one with the old. I am doing my work simultaneously on three different computers/locations. Instead of having to save my work for each session on a USB flash disk then copying it to the other computers, dropbox will take charge to make sure my computers are all in sync. Every time I start to work, I don't need to worry if I have the latest copy on the computer I am using and on top of that I always have backups of my work to the latest minutes (depending on the size of your files).

In addition to backup and sync, you can easily recover files that you've accidentally deleted. Dropbox also keeps a history of your revisions, and helps you easily share your files with other dropbox users.

• Have to install dropbox client, which some may not like.
• Need to have internet connection to work
• Only 2GB for free account, but you earn 1 more extra GB for referrals
• One of the few backup solutions that works on WIN, MAC and Linux
• Very nice web interface

Why I like to replace desktop apps with web apps

Thanks to the wonderful web apps that we're seeing today. And some of them are really useful and giving me enough reason to replace some of the desktop apps that I using. This might not be applicable to all of you as it really depends on your needs and situation.

Here are the reason why I like and prefer to use them

• Preserve hard disk space

  I know hard disk are cheap nowadays but this might not be true to anyone like me. I am using a laptop with 40GB hard disk and I have both Windows XP and Ubuntu on it leaving me a small free disk space for other installations and for my download activity everyday which I later transfer to my external hard disk.

• Maintain my system to be as clean, fast and light as possible.

  Every time we get to use a newly install windows system, we feel the system is fast to boot, response, and shutdown but as soon as you begin to install something on it, it becomes slow.

• Portable

  I can access my documents, listen to my music playlist and watch my favorite music from home and work or any computer that has internet connection

Web apps that replaces my desktop apps

Web App	Remarks
Buxfer	Finding a free personal finance desktop application is hard, but on the web there's a lot of it which are really good and my perosonal favorite is buxfer.
CrunchyRoll, YouTube	These really saves me a lot of disk space and time. I no longer need to download and keep music videos and animes in my hard disk
Delicious	Way much better than the bookmarking features that the browers has to offer today.
Gmail, Yahoo Mail	No more email client software on my system. No need to delete emails, and to do backups( and I believe they do it better than me)
Google Docs	I am just a casual word processing and spreadsheet user, so Google Docs is more than enough to me and offers online storage for me which makes my data portable and makes sharing your files easy. And this is where it saves me a lot of disk space, as we know both Microsoft Office and Open Office requires a lot of disk space.
Imeem	With this I can easily access and organize my music playlist from home and from work place, and also saves me a lot of disk space. It really change my way of collecting, listening, and organizing music. I love this app!
Jjot	It lets you easily compose, organize, and search for your notes. Veryful useful and productive!
Meebo	Saves me from installing gTalk and Yahoo Messenger. And the best thing I really like is that Yahoo Messenger currently doesn't do online achieving of my chat logs and meebo has this feature.
Picasa Web	Helps me share my photos with friends and keeps a collection of wallpapers, interesting images that I don't want to takes my disk space.

Did I miss any web apps that could possibly replace the desktop apps I am using? Thanks.