Ximian makes Linux management tools and a desktop version of Linux.
But a desktop version called CameraBag 2 for the Mac and PC does a lot more using similar controls.
The apps are available initially only for Apple products, including iPhones and iPads, and in a desktop version available online.
Another site, Grokker.com, does something similar in a visual form; it is free online or $49 for a desktop version.
The app is free, and the brothers are working, in their off hours, on a desktop version, as well as an extension for Web browsers.
With a potential market measured in the hundreds of millions, he has frightened a lot of big-time computer makers into seeing how good a laptop they can build for less than $500.All start with a desktop version of Linux.
The problem also affected the company's Phenom processor, a desktop version of the chip, but A.M.D.'s workaround solution for that was issued before the product shipped, Mr. Taylor said.
Having begun life three years ago in the Israeli iPhone app store, before going international and onto other mobile platforms including Android, Blackberry and Windows, Viber took the fight to Skype's home turf by launching a desktop version in May.
Via two applications and a desktop version, Facebook is looking to increase engagement and snag a lot of data it previously didn't have insight into by offering companies the opportunity to create their own mini Facebooks.
Much has been said over the years about the slow merging of Chrome OS and Android, with speculation that Google would eventually ditch Chrome OS for Android and run a desktop version of Android.
There's now a desktop version.
