FanBox - Your own personal web-based desktop operating system

Posted on January 2, 2008 at 7:45 am

The future of computing is coming soon when your computer desktop will no longer run on your local computer, but instead everyone will have their own personal web-based OS. A web-based operating systems means you can login into a web site online and access programs, files, and settings just as if you were on your own desktop.

With a web-based OS, you will find programs such as an Office suite to create and edit documents, an Internet browser, an instant messenger program, and lots more. However, all of this would be quite useless if it didn’t include some of the features that make Web 2.0 so popular. Using an online desktop allows you to access files from anywhere and share them with others instantly since the data is already uploaded!

FanBox is one of several companies that are venturing into the online web-based desktop OS market and they do a pretty good job of it! The interface of FanBox looks like your average desktop with icons, a taskbar and a desktop background. With FanBox, you can chat with all of your buddies from Yahoo, AIM, MSN, and Gtalk all at the same time.

FanBox also has a photo album application so users can upload their photos easily, access them from anywhere, and make them either public or private, depending on if they want to share them with others.

FanBox allows up to 2GB of storage, so it’s a great way to backup all of your data files from your local computer. It has a quick import function that will find all of your photos, documents, videos, and songs automatically and upload them to FanBox servers.

You can also install applications to enhance the default web-based OS from their collection of almost 10,000 applications. FanBox offers games, tools, and programs that you can add to the OS.

FanBox has a really nice interface with no ads or anything else to annoy you to death. As of right now, it does not let you customize the background, but hopefully that will be coming soon. It’s super easy to start using and very self-explanatory.

Overall, it’s a very simple virtual PC that is online rather than installed on your local PC. It’s also a good way to browse the web without worrying about spyware and viruses being installed on your computer. Definitely worth checking out. Enjoy!

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7 Responses to “FanBox - Your own personal web-based desktop operating system”

jsanderz said on : January 4th, 2008 at 3:39 am

I agree, I think that online webbased operating systems could be what we will be all using in the near future.
There are many versions out at the moment and some are much better than others.
Regards.

zeitgeist said on : January 13th, 2008 at 10:58 am

Fanbox’s concept is indeed very interesting. The technology behind it is also cool, kind of like a mashup of all the BIG things right now on the internet. BUT, I highly suspect its background, the company which used to be called sms.ca

It was known to spam a lot. And even the Fanbox invitation method is a bit shady. Automatic membership by “request your password by email”? Asking for your mail contacts to spam your friends?

Damn, this is some classy spamming.

Raghav said on : February 1st, 2008 at 9:06 am

Hi,
Really curious.

Can anyone shed light the actual technology it could be built.

Thank in advance

Alex said on : February 1st, 2008 at 12:31 pm

FanBox is a shady company that seeds their membership database with purchased data, spams people with fake invitations from fake profiles, reserves the right to impersonate their members to grow their database, send “premium” (meaning YOU pay) SMS messages to your phone, and basically screw you over any possible way they can make a $.10. If you give them your passwords they will spam all of your contacts without asking.

DO NOT SIGN UP FOR FANBOX.COM. They are EVIL. You have been warned.

darkside92 said on : May 14th, 2008 at 11:50 am

Sounds coold but then there will be hackers that will hack in to it and steal peoples perosnlan information ie credit card numbers!

rachel said on : June 18th, 2008 at 8:18 am

does anyone know how i can get on fanbox from school??

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