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Pictures of the Launch Program of G.ho.st

Pictures taken during the Launch Program of G.ho.st last July 14, 2009 in Israel with Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as the guest of honor.

G.ho.st Video Tutorials

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G.ho.st Video Tutorials

VAPAUS: GHOST - Global Hosted Operating System

VAPAUS: GHOST - Global Hosted Operating System

G.ho.st will be formally launched tonight in the gap in the separation wall between Bet Jallah and Har Giloh. The two teams of G.ho.st (Israelis and Palestinians) will be together in one venue to celebrate this momentous event.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be one of the distinguish guest who will witness this historic event.

G.ho.st Netbook winner

just received this message from Mr. Montasser Abdellatif, Marcom Manager of G.ho.st announcing the winner of the G.ho.st Netbook Promo is from the Philippines.

June's Netbook Winner is Vincent Francis Maclang from the Philippines. Congratulations Gener for that ;-) Regards Montasser Abdellatif

Ideacamp Davao - Gener Luis Morada, G.ho.st from ragingmon on Vimeo.

Zvi's Message to the Kick off participants

G.ho.st Control Panel

Customized your G.ho.st VC through the G.ho.st Control Panel

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Easy Sign In Process

If you have your own personal computer, you might want to easily sign in to access your G.ho.st VC. Just check the remember box the next time you sign in to your G.ho.st VC

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Your next log in will be much easier all you need to do is to double click the icon with your user name at the bottom.

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FAQ

Know more about G.ho.st just go to the G.ho.st Website at http://g.ho.st and chose virtual computer and FAQ

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Start Finding the Information that you need

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Access Your Google Docs File in G.ho.st

If you are an avid google docs users and you find it very difficult remembering your numerous accounts, you can access your different accounts in google docs in g.ho.st

just go to My VC

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Double Click My Web Drives

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Double Click Google Docs

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You will see your different google docs accounts and choose one

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Choose a file and start working

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G.ho.st in the Press

Here are some links of G.ho.st in the Press

One team, two offices: Israel and Palestine

All Things Digital

The Washington Times


Palestinian-Israeli internet venture by Reuters

Israelis and Palestinians Launch Web Start-Up Front Page Item by the New York Times

G.ho.st at the Demo 2008

No Office Suit Get One Online Through G.ho.st

Another essential feature of G.ho.st is its online office suit through Zoho. Just go to Go Menu/Productivity and you will have a choice between Documents, Sheets and Presentations.

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Choose Zoho and Start Typing your Documents

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Once Finished your documents, sheets or presentations will be stored directly to your G.ho.st Drive so you can access it anywhere, at any computer through the web browser.

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Listen to your Favorite Music using G.ho.st

There are a number of options in finding your music online through G.ho.st. Go to the Go Menu/MultiMedia/Music/Groove Shark Light

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Groove Shark Light in G.ho.st to search for your favorite tunes.

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See your choices

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Listen to your Music

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Twit in G.ho.st

Are you crazy about Twitter? You can actually Twit using g.ho.st

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Your G.ho.st VC Mobile in your iGoogle Page

If you are using iGoogle as our homepage you can now embed G.ho.st Virtual Computer Mobile in your iGoogle page.

First Go to the G.ho.st website, click embed and choose iGoogle

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Your G.ho.st Virtual Computer Mobile will be embeded in your iGoogle Page

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You can access your G.ho.st Mail

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You can see and download your files at the g.ho.st Drive

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Your Webmarks

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It also has a lot of features for you to explore.

If you have a 3G capable cell phone just set your mobile browser to http://g.ho.st/m and you can access your g.ho.st account through the g.ho.st mobile

How to Publish your Files in the G.ho.st Drive

One of the essential features of the G.ho.st Drive is its ability to share or publish your files to your friends. You also have the option to post your files on your blog,website or social networking sites that you subscribe to.

Right Click a file that you want to share or publish:

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Choose Share or Publish

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Choose Publish

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Check publish file here you can share it the social networking sites.
To post in your blog or website, you choose post a fun icon so that an icon would be used to represent the files you are sharing in your site

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Choose an icon and copy the embed code to be put on your blog or website.

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G.ho.st at Web2.0 Expo 09 San Francisco

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From G.ho.st Web2.0 Expo 09 San Francisco

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From G.ho.st Web2.0 Expo 09 San Francisco

From G.ho.st Web2.0 Expo 09 San Francisco

Getting Your Files Through G.ho.st Bulk Uploader Alpha

Another way of uploading and downloading your files from your computer to your G.ho.st Virtual Computer and vice versa is through the G.ho.st Bulk Uploader that could be found in the GO Menu under G.ho.st Services



Double click on the G.ho.st Uploader Alpha and a new window will load up the applet. Java add ons on your browser is required. if it doesn't have one then it would install a small file before you could actually use it.



Start dragging your files between your computer and your G.ho.st Drive



G.ho.st Bulk Uploader is still in its Alpha stage so there would be some bugs in it and please be patient while we are perfecting it.

Uploding your files to your G.ho.st Drive Through FTP

Another way of uploading and downloading your files from your G.ho.st Drive is through FTP

Just go to any file browser in your desktop. Since I am using Linux Mint, I am the term used is file browser. For Windows you can go to your My Computer or My Documents and start accessing your G.ho.st Drive from there.



On the drive address portion write this address ftp://ftp.g.ho.st



You will be asked for your username and password, for linux user you will be asked an additional root password and start dragging your file to your G.ho.st Drive.



For linux users an icon will be shown on your desktop showing the link to your G.ho.st Drive if you need to upload or download more files during the session. For Windows user you can see this icon usually in My Network places.

Uploading your files to your G.ho.st Drive

One of the essential features of G.ho.st Virtual Computer is the G.ho.st Drive. It is a virtual storage space wherein you can store any personal files that you have at any format. Initially you are given a 5 GB free storage space but you can increase the this size through a number of ways:

1. When you recommend the G.ho.st VC to your friends through the G.ho.st invite your friend module that could be found in the GO Menu, you would get 1GB free per friend who signs up.

2. Through special promotions/codes that G.ho.st regularly gives out to its users like those who signs up using the link in the Handy Cafe in internet cafes would received an additional 3GB of storage space above the regular the initial 5GB.



Just double click the G.ho.st Drive icon on your Virtual desktop and it would lead you to your "My VC" which shows all the virtual drives that is available to you.



Double Click "My G.ho.st Drive" and it would lead you inside your G.ho.st Virtual Drive to see your files. On the left hand side you can click "My G.ho.st Drive and you will see the different folders that you have in your G.ho.st Drive, click on the individual folder to see its contents.



To upload your files from your computer to your G.ho.st Drive, just click upload on the top portion of your desktop.



Another window will pop up and choose the file that you are going to upload from your computer.



Uploading the files



You would be given notification if the upload is successful

My Buddies Apha

One of the latest innovations of the G.ho.st VC is the My Buddies (which is still in its alpha stage, meaning it still has some bugs but it is working fine) It gets you in touch with your friends who are also G.ho.st VC users so you can collaborate with them effectively over the INTERNET.

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How to Access My Buddies Alpha

On lower right hand corner in the task bar you will see an icon showing two people all you need to do is to double click the icon and you could start adding your g.ho.st users friends into My Buddies Alpha.

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What can you do with G.ho.st My Buddies Alpha.

For Starters you can email and share your files with your friends with very little effort. Other features would be added in the future.

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Have fun and start getting in touch with your G.ho.st Users Friends in No Time.

The New G.ho.st Loads Up Much Faster than Before

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There was a time that we used to wait for a while for the G.ho.st Virtual Computer to load up. Not with this new release. I tried it and noticed that the loading time for this new release is much faster than before.

I tested it today and for the initial loading it took about 20.8 seconds till i could use my VC but after the initial loading it only took 9.8 seconds and my Virtual Computer is ready for use.

Before I was having some problems using my Smart Mobile and Smart Bro due to its speed but now my G.ho.st VC loads up easily.

Give G.ho.st A try and be amazed with its features

G,ho.st In Filipino/Tagalog

Since last year you can choose to have your G.ho.st Virtual Computer in Tagalog

G.ho.st Website in Tagalog

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G.ho.st Drop down Language Menu can be found on the upper left hand portion of the website

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How to Set Your G.ho.st VC to Tagalog

Go to Go Menu and choose Control Panel

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Go to Regional Setting

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Choose Tagalog

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G.ho.st's New Release New Innovations

This week G.ho.st released its newest version. It included new online apps and other features that we are going to discuss in future postings. For today let us start off with the innovations made with the website of G.ho.st which could be found at http://g.ho.st.

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The Website is packed with new Features like:

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The New Login Page is right now on the web page itself it does not load another webpage for this.

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All the information that you need by merely hovering the mouse over the icons

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FAQ Page to get all the information that you need

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A Solutions Page for Schools, Universities and Internet Cafes

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Easy Sharing Through Social Networks

G.ho.st Establishes Philippines Office

PHILIPPINES April 8, 2009 G.ho.st (pronounced "ghost", the Global Hosted Operating SysTem) today announced the establishment of an office in the Phillipines. G.ho.st has developed a revolutionary award-winning Virtual Computer (VC) technology which allows the user to create and access their desktop, files and applications all in a Web page, from any computer or mobile phone, free of charge.


The Phillipines is the second country outside Palestine and Israel to have a local G.ho.st office. "We are excited by the growth of the ICT sector in the Philipines" said G.ho.st CEO Zvi Schreiber "and hope to contribute to this growth by offering a free Virtual Computer to every person in the Phillipines".


Country manager Gener Morada added "We are ensuring a great experience for Filipino users by offering the G.ho.st VC in Tagalog and offering local support and community"

For more information about G.ho.st in the Philippines contact:


Gener Luis Morada
Country Representative: G.ho.st Virtual PC http://g.ho.st
Tel.no. (046)5157144
Cellphone:+639087497764
Email: gener62166@g.ho.st
Website: http://g.ho.st
Blog: http://http://ghostusers.blogspot.com/

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As an Internet Cafe Owner, Why Should I Encourage my Customers to Use G.ho.st?

• Basically, you can use G.ho.st as a marketing tool to attract more customers into your internet cafes and to get their loyalty. You can offer them a free online file storage that they could use to store their files without the additional cost of buying a computer with a large hard disk space to act as a server. You could also tell them that the size of their file storage increases for free as long as they recommend to their friends to use G.ho.st.

• One of the common problems that we have are viruses coming from flash disk that is commonly used by our customers to store their files. It is bothersome on the part of the internet cafe owner to set up a system to prevent virus infection from flash disks and there is no guarantee that it would be effective. We would be minimizing our time from getting rid of these viruses if we would be able to encourage our customers of using the G.ho.st file storage rather than the flash disks.

• Internet cafe owners will save a lot of money in terms of software licensing. The Philippine Anti Piracy Team which is primarily composed of the Philippine National Police, National Bureau of Investigation and the Optical Media Board recently announced a crack down on internet cafes using pirated software. One of the problem of the internet cafe owners in using Linux as their primary software is that their customers are more comfortable in using Windows applications like yahoo messenger and Microsoft Office. The G.ho.st desktop contains online apps that are very familiar to your customers like yahoo web messenger, online Zoho Office and it has even its own web browser. So you can use Linux and yet have Windows based online apps available to your customers and we take care of all the administrations.
  

As an ordinary user, how can I use G.ho.st in my daily activities?

3. As an ordinary user, how can I use G.ho.st in my daily activities?

This question could be answered in a number of ways:

• If you don't own your own computer unit like the condition that we have here in the Philippines wherein the computer penetration rate stands at 14%. the desktop is your own personal space. Most users prefers to personalized their desktop to define their personal space in computing which is really hard to accomplish if you would be using computers in an internet cafe. G.ho.st could provide you with your own virtual desktop that you could personalized the settings and it could be accessed through the web browser anywhere even in internet cafes.

• G.ho.st Virtual Computer could be used to back up your important files. Upon setting up your virtual computer, you would be provided with 5GB of file storage that we call as the G.ho.st Drive. You can upload and store any type of files in the G.ho.st Drive and share it directly from the G.ho.st Drive to your friends. You can get additional file storage space by inviting your friends to sign up with g.ho.st and from promotional codes frequently given out by G.ho.st. In the future, as an additional feature you can purchase additional file storage if you need to.

• G.ho.st Virtual Computer contains third party web applications that you could use like so that you would save money and hard disk space to be productive. It has an online office through Zoho and Google Docs. Instant messaging web apps through yahoo web messenger, meebo and IloveIm. Social networking tools like twitter and friend feed. Web based games, online radio, rss feeds, multimedia tools, email and so much more.

• If you are a heavy user of web 2.0 applications and frequently forgets your username and password of the numerous sites you are patronizing, you would enjoy using G.ho.st for it contains all the web applications that you want using only a single sign on page.

• You don't really have to worry about the administration since G.ho.st Inc will do it for you. Study shows that at least 1/4 of the time spent in front of the computer is for updating anti-virus software and other programs. With G.ho.st you do not really need a very complicated computer system. It could be accessed with Windows, Linux or Mac since all you need is a web browser.
  

Let us see how it works

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What is G.ho.st Really all About?

In doing my job as the country representative of G.ho.st these are the FAQs that i encounter in every event that I have attended:

1. What does G.ho.st stands for and why the periods in between?

G.ho.st actually stands for Global Hosted Operating System that is being developed by Ghost Inc of Israel which was founded by Zvi Schreiber in 2006. It has periods in between the letters since it is actually a url. There is no .com or .net at the end so that once you placed it in the address bar of your web browser it would go directly to the G.ho.st website.

2. What is the G.ho.st Virtual Computer?

The G.ho.st Virtual Computer is a personal computing environment which includes your desktop, your personal settings, your files and your choice of software applications but unlike what you ordinarily see in a pc, the virtual computer is not installed in the pc but are located in professional data centers accross the internet cloud. you can access your virtual computer anywhere and any kind of computer sytems through the web browser in the world. Just open your web browser go to the g.ho.st homepage by typing G.ho.st in the address bar, sign in using your username and password and start working with your G.ho.st Virtual Computer.

G.ho.st users Guide

Hi everybody, I am Gener Luis Morada, the country representative of G.ho.st Virtual Computer in the Philippines. Part of my job is to tell people in my country about the benefits of using our product but the time i spent with them during the events was not really enough that they are always asking for more information.

So I have decided to create this blog so that it would provide snippets of information on concept of the G.ho.st Virtual Computer and hopefully serve as a guide on how to fully utilize its features. this is most especially directed to the internet cafe owners in the Philippines who are very numerous in terms of numbers and yet have very little time to go through all the concepts of G.ho.st. hopefully this will inspire them to promote it to their customers