I read on Tech Crunch today that the Adobe group intends to launch the Apollo software that will essentially allow you to run web-based applications as native desktop apps. I won’t get into the nitty gritty, I’ll let you decide on that at the Tech Crunch blog. http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/16/preparing-for-apollo/ Computer Dorks might want to take a listen to the audio interview with some Adobe big wigs, which offers a bit more insight.

This could be the fix I need in order to delve into this insane “Web apps” life. I’ve always been against web-based apps, especially e-mail. Why? I don’t know if any of my responses will be sensible or even valid arguments. But I just don’t like them. I don’t like the web-based interface for mail. I enjoy the speed of a desktop client. I enjoy being able to look at my mail even when I’m not online. I guess part of the reason is because so much of my work or things I need to do come through e-mail. (Both corporate and personal) I also like rules and being able to do special actions based on e-mail. Perfect example is mail forwarding. Sometimes I have a hot e-mail that I’m waiting on. So I enable a mail rule to forward that e-mail to my cell phone when that e-mail arrives. Now of course the better option is to just have a Treo or smart phone (which I’m working on) but this has been a very helpful workaround in the mean time.

So who knows what Apollo might do for me? Depending on what the ACTUAL product looks like as opposed to what it’s intended to do is really going to be the major difference maker.

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