Fanbox: another webDesktop based site

These types of sites seem to be appearing everyday and it's starting to get a little bit too crazy. Another company to hit the web-top based market is FanBox with it's Microsoft Vista type of interface.

Fanbox Screenshot

The online desktop is fairly buggy with moving windows issues (cannot stop a window from dragging, very jumpy), and a range of other issues listed below. However they have taken on a smart idea to integrate the public of developers into making applications for Fanbox through their wiki site.

Developers can create Flash games and anything they wish with the use of Fanbox's API, already there have been hundreds of developers that have created games for Fanbox. To check out Fanbox, go to their site www.fanbox.com and you can log in as a guest.

Bugs I've found, write a comment below if you find any more:-
* Dragging windows (can't stop dragging on many occasions)
* Dragging windows (very jumpy)
* FanBox Homepage (how do I close it?)
* Word Processor (hard to select text)
* Word Processor (error script when trying to upload an image)
* Word Processor (right-click sub menu is cut off by small window size)
* more testing to come

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2 Responses to “Fanbox: another webDesktop based site”

I did try to log onto the "fanbox" site, just to see what happens.
When it asked for my mobile (cellphone) number, I straight away thought of junk mail texts and surprise subscriber type huge bills.
never went past that, and clicked out.
Beats me, why they need your cellphone number, unless it's another scam
When you receive incoming requests you should be able to accept them on the same page that they are listed without having to go into their profiles.

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