Backpack is finally live and available to
the public. I’ve already signed up for my free account. As I
suspected it is quite a nice
web-based PIM (personal information manager) that works quite well with
email (both sending and receiving) and sends reminders to your mobile.
Though as Russ has pointed
out it’s not quite
as useful as it could be for mobiles. Still I think that the AJAX
interface is quite slick and it really shows off the power of building
web-apps with Rails.