Comments on: Operation Foxbook: Could You Do It?

By: friarminor

friarminor — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:16:14 +0000

I wonder what’s the percentage for each person between using web apps vs desktop environment. Halved at 50%? Mine I think is 75-25 spent within browser.

Best.
alain
mor.ph

By: NikLP

NikLP — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:34:19 +0000

I’m pretty much there really, apart from a couple of things.

I really like Dropbox and it makes certain tasks less irksome – I could do without it though (for a day).

I tend to use PuTTY for a lot of the day, for managing my Drupal sites. Vim FTW.

I use ChatZilla an awful lot, but that’s “browser based”, so I’m not sure if it counts? It’s a FF extension :)

If it wasn’t for basic file management facilities offered by the desktop, I could almost do completely without it – in fact I almost do.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:21:26 +0000

Great to see Harry replicate my own test, which lasted 60-days and worked quite well. In two months, 97% of my time was spent in the browser and I’m on the computer around 60- to 70-hours a week due to work.

@CY: streaming is a great option, but for iTunes music, FoxyTunes is an awesome extension for Firefox that lets you listen to your tunes: http://www.jkontherun.com/2008/06/the-web-only-ch.html

By: XNet

XNet — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:07:28 +0000

I guess I could rely solely on webapps except in one task: video editing. I don’t think there’s any online application that could manage gigabytes of video.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:42:52 +0000

Hm, I’m thinking the opposite would be a real challenge nowadays – how would the average Web Worker forgo *web-based* applications even for a day?

This is what’s scary to me (as someone who develops web apps).

By: CY

CY — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:52:06 +0000

How will you listen to music; a pre-synchronized iPod? No iTunes right? He will have to do alot of streaming. He must have access to a fast connection.