G.ho.st

G.ho.st http://G.ho.st/ is in some ways even more full featured and certainly more colorful than eyeOS. After you sign up, for fre, G.ho.st carves out an impressive 5 Gigabytes of file storage on its own servers for you, and it its creates your very own G.ho.st Mail email account, with 3 GB of storage. Like eyeOS, there's nothing to install, once you sign up, you will recieve a confirmation email message. Click the activation link inside, and you are ready to go.

The first time you launch G.ho.st your browser will switch to full screen mode so that you can see all there is that G.ho.st has to offer. There's a full featured word processor, spreadsheet, e-mail, your personal G.ho.st few games. There's a plenty of hand-holding in G.ho.st, as well, with icons that offer to take you on a tour of G.ho.st. help yopu set up your e-mail, create and edit documents, and upload files from your desktop computer to your G.ho.st envoirment.

A Go button in the lower left-hand corner of the G.ho.st screen mimics Vista's start up button; it provides handy acces to all of the operating system's features and programs. G.ho.st is full of glitz and color, and it is consequently more demanding of your hardware and somewhat more sluggish that eyeOS, which is streamlined by comparision. Still, many will likely find that G.ho.st's friendliness will make any perfomance hit worthwhile.