Dropbox, a free downloadable software program, allows them to drag and drop files to access on the Internet or from another computer into the "dropbox" folder that appears on their computer's desktop.
It might fill another gap, he said, because there was currently no easy way to run apps for the iPhone on a Mac desktop computer.
BBC: Android apps to run on Apple Macs via Bluestacks program
There are concerns over whether Facebook can make money from people using the site on mobile devices, as users move from the computer desktop version to accessing the site via mobile phone.
At the heart of the personal genome machine is a silicon chip with 21 million transistors on it--the equivalent of a desktop computer circa 1995.
Take, for example, the GUI or Graphical User Interface, which allows the moving of items on a desktop computer using icons and a mouse.
The hiccups for Windows 8, however, have spotlighted the sometimes-awkward fit when software is grafted onto both a tablet computer used for watching movies and surfing the Web, and on a 27-inch desktop computer primarily for workplace functions.
Employees were invited via e-mail and through fliers to click on the Brightidea icon on their computer's desktop.
And I was an interactive champion on the 2000 Fox Family game "Paranoia, " winning a top-of-the-line desktop computer with camera.
That computer on your desktop in 2000 looked much like the one in 2001.
The consumer division of Compaq, the world's leading computer maker, is also working on a desktop machine that folds up "like a book, " keyboard and all, when out of use, says Franklin Sze, senior product marketing manager for Compaq's greater China division.
The Leap Motion Controller will be equally relevant to desktop computer users as to big screen gamers, all depending on the software available.
If content or services are hard to find on a website viewed through a desktop computer, and it is 80% of the time, it will be even harder to find it on a small screen, with a compact navigation system and a lot of distractions.
The user has nothing to install, and the use of the USB key provides the mobility and convenience of carrying a personal desktop and files that can be used on any computer.
Approaches that rely on operations performed by the user have a fatal flaw beyond the need to recognize what actions are required: they depend on computer input devices controlled by software which can be exploited in the same way that a remote desktop application does.
FORBES: Artificial Intelligence Will Defeat CAPTCHA -- How Will We Prove We're Human Then?
Media which lives on a computer can be moved to a variety of mobile devices by dragging and dropping the files to a desktop folder which then drops copies on the external device over the web.
应用推荐