One possible solution for this requirement is Ericom AccessNow, an HTML5 RDP client that enables tablet users to connect to any RDP host, including Terminal Server, physical desktops or VDI virtual desktops – and run their applications and desktops in a browser.

Ericom‘s AccessNow does not require any client or other underlying technology to be installed on end-user devices – an HTML5 browser is all that is required.

You can choose to run a full Windows desktop or just a specific Windows app, and that desktop or Windows app will appear within a browser tab.

For more info, and to download a demo, visit:
http://www.ericom.com/RDPChromebook.asp?URL_ID=708

Note: I work for Ericom

You can even use AccessNow to run Internet Explorer on a Chromebook for those companies or web sites that require IE.

Ericom‘s AccessNow does not require Java, Flash, Silverlight, ActiveX, or any other underlying technology to be installed on end-user devices – an HTML5 browser is all that is required.

You can choose to run a full Windows desktop or just a specific Windows app, and that desktop or Windows app will appear within a browser tab.

For more info, and to download a demo, visit:
http://www.ericom.com/RDPChromebook.asp?URL_ID=708

Note: I work for Ericom

Google+ seems more designed to handle content embedding easier than Facebook, but honestly the animated .gif thing annoys me more than attracts me which is overused by everyone. The YouTube integration is excellent however.

I recently posted on my blog about the default icon, which I call either the “Chrome Mystery Person” or the “Creeper Alien”–that white face icon weirded me out! Fortunately, it’s easy to switch to another icon, as your post explains very well. Hopefully, Google will also add an option to allow users to upload their own icons.

A few days ago, I e-mailed some personal photos of my wife to one of our friends who uses GMail, and cc’d my wife. This was intended to be a one-time transmission for just their eyes.

But now, whenever either of them open any e-mail from me, on any subject, those photos appear in the right margin of their GMail screens, under “Recent photos.”

This proved especially embarrassing to my wife when today she opened a business e-mail from me with a professional colleague watching, and the personal photo again popped up in the margin. She asked, how can Google justify doing such a thing? More importantly, how can she prevent it from happening in the future?

She tried an experiment: She located the message with the photos attached and invoked “delete this message.” Then she found it in her Trash and invoked “delete forever.” But still, the pictures show up under “Recent photos” when she reads any message from me. Even worse, if she clicks on any of those photos, the entire text of the message she supposedly just deleted forever shows up again.

She would like to permanently remove those pictures from Google’s memory. She is afraid that Google will use them to illustrate mail to other GMail users who should not see them. I would like to assure her that this will not happen, but I have no factual basis for such assurance.

This seems like a regression to me: the strength of chromeos is that it’s stepping away from old metaphors and trying something new. This change moves us back toward the old metaphors, and I can’t see any advantage to it.

I was running the latest chromium os, but this was such a big regression that I wound up switching to the distribution version of chromeos to get rid of this new UI. I’m really puzzled as to what the thinking was behind this change. The desktop metaphor is a usability nightmare–why would we want it back?