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Tech: Your own Personal OS – YouOS

https://www.youos.com

I had to profile this one because I had too much fun playing around with the demo Operating System on its site. YouOS is a personalized “Operating System” on the web. It made it on PCWorld’s list of top 20 most innovative sites and its a well deserved award. Its not quite a full fledged Operating System but the concept of having an OS on the web  gets me all warm and fuzzy. So here’s a running list of the features:

• UNIX like shell which recognizes some commands
• Chat application
• A Flickr RSS plugin
• A web file manager for your folders and files
• Office Apps – There’s a wordpad like editor called YouEditor and YouSticky for your sticky notes.
• Customizable Panel – You can customize your home OS panel.
• Web Browsers – There are some lightweight browsers and RSS Feed manager for your RSS feeds.
• A list of 732 of pluggable Applications that you can include in your OS such as YouPhotoshop, pluggable games such as MarioWorld (I succumbed and played it for a few minutes), YouProxy, NES simulator, and a whole lot more.

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