The MAID Client will connect you to the SAFE network. It’s the gateway to the SAFEnet and when you run the app for the first time you’ll be asked to provide a PIN, username and password. Please make sure to store these in a very secure place, it’s the only way for you to access your data again. Click on one of the links below for the installer…
Windows 32bit-installer.exe
Windows 64bit-installer.exe
Mac OSX installer
Ubuntu Linux packet
Debian Linux packet
For the mobile Android versions please go to the Google Play store using this link.
in Windows I’m not sure if its possible to launch a process as another account (you can launch threads in other processes virtual memory space, so its probably possible).
I believe runas.exe does this in Windows?
For instance, a malicious app could always be a keylogger,
Some of you guys from this thread follow the UI Design work going into the launcher submodule, if you havent been following JIRA, you’d probably have missed some of the transitions @Scott has come up with for the UI. Thought I’ll just share a sample here
@Viv that’s bloody brilliant. I’m glad you found a way to incorporate lift off (without the earlier… ahem). Well done @Scott, you’ve hit the ground running. I’m sorry to be going on holiday at this crucial moment is the UX design
Everything I’ve seen so far looks so slick and engaging. I really like that maidsafe uses blue tones. In marketing its said certain colors evoke particular emotions, blue is suppose to represent trust I believe, so good choice. And the rocket blowing up instantly made me smile, very cool!
Ok that was something I was afraid of but I posted them because they were publicly available. But it’s good to see these kind of things pop up for the people who can’t read the development/progress in technical explanations and github etc.
I agree it should be called the Safe App Launcher. @Viv I missunderstood and thought that the launcher discussed on the updates was just gonna have messaging and launch the Maidsafe program to enable us to connect to apps such as @whiteoutmashups but not much more capability then that. This was not clear to me until @polpolrene brought it up and I’m sure that I’m not alone. What other feature will the launcher have that nontechnical people like me are missing? Is there anything else that the Maidsafe dev’s are planning to add to the launcher besides apps and messaging? Thanks.
Launcher will act as a gateway for applications to connect to the SAFE Network, keeping the users’ credentials secure.
Said that, the launcher will be providing APIs for the applications to authorise and perform operation on the SAFE Network. So the launcher will be providing APIs to expose the SAFE Network features which the applications can use (NFS, DNS, Messaging), these are on the API level which are useful for the developers.
Visualise launcher as a control panel, for managing the connected applications. Moreover, the launcher will provide options to start and stop other services such as the WebProxy.