The desktop manager provides several methods of accessing the parts of the desktop that are not visual. It displays a slider in the upper right corner of the screen that can be used to access another part of the desktop. The second and probably most comfortable solution is to use the mouse-wheel while clicking the left or middle mouse button to scroll left or right. The third and final option is to open the quick nav bar by clicking on the slider and use the navigation bar to access another part of the desktop directly. The desktop scrolls seamlessly by connecting the end and beginning together.

By default only the Windows Taskbar stays in place all the time to provide access to its functions. All other windows and applications will remain in place which means that some of them will not be accessible when in the wrong part of the computer desktop.

This can be changed in the options of the 360 desktop manager so that applications will always be in the visible area of the computer screen. New desktop layouts can be downloaded or created at the official 360 Desktop website. Downloaded desktops can be loaded directly in the application or by dragging and dropping them afterwards in the 360 Manager.

It is furthermore possible to manage so called widgets in the 360 Manager which can only be created on the 360 Desktop website by registered users. Widgets can be pretty much any element that is available on a website like video clips, eBay listings or RSS news feeds which will always be displayed when the desktop manager starts.

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After creating a free account at myGOYA and signing in using the https protocol you can see an overview of your virtual system drawing up how many messages / e-mails / contacts / calendar records you got and free space available on the web hard drive. MyGOYA provides 512 MB free space for e-mails and the same amount for all other data again. Should be quite sufficient for a light-weight and portable operating system.

After firing up the virtual system, which takes just few seconds, you can do many things that you’d be able to do on your own system like storing files, managing e-mails and contacts using built-in client, chatting with other users, planning events with a calendar, playing media files, scheduling tasks and so forth.

The system is also connected with other Magix’s free services like photo album, website/blog maker etc, creating a huge complex of services and tools that you can use along with the virtual desktop itself. Widget support with 4 widgets at present could become more relevant if there are more of them in the future.

The last feature I wouldn’t like to forget is related to the “tab mania”. Rather then being solid and permanent, each desktop is in fact a tab that you can close whenever you like or create a new tab – desktop whenever you need.

Another web-based desktop environment fills in the collection of services of this kind. Using the solution from Magix is fast and simple and it might get pretty popular when all minor bugs (usually German / English translation) are fixed.

There aren’t really a lot of information about the requirements but I was able to access myGOYA with Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera.

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