Puppy Linux Boot Camp Video Series

Here is a great guide for Puppy Linux operating system. It covers everything you need to know from beginner to expert using. A great guide. follow the series below or go to youtube playlistclick here

What is the google settings app on my phone.

you rebooted your android Phone only to fine that there is now a new app called google settings well dont worry its nothing bad or anything. This article explains what the new google settings icon on your android device is click here.

Chrome Web Store – Awesome New Tab Page

For those of you using Google’s Chrome Browser, I Discovered this great extension called “Awesome New Tab Page”(ANTP) it is great and the name says it all. it brings a nice new look and feel to the default tab page and a feel like no other. it is clean neet and easy to use. you can use specific apps designed for ANTP,  your existing applications, and create new links to your favorite pages. click here for the extension

note if you use chromium (the source application that chrome is built on)click here or SRWare Iron browser (a secure browser designed on chromium that removes links to google and some privacy issues people may be concerned about) click here  this will work in them also.  

One Laptop Per Child: Innovation at its best.

found this great article on the One Laptop Per Child (OLC) team making a Kid friendly, waterproof,  dust free, durable laptop to be given to children in 3rd world countries. its amazing what can be done with some inovation. click here for the article.

click here for the main website for OLPC

Transparent smartphone prototype.

this is a great demo of a future smartphone although it has limited functions, and the screen seems to not do anything yet, its being worked on and developed further. to see full review click here

New Android Technology

This is so cool that with advancements in android technology that using voice commands to talk to your mobile device are improving. this makes it easier for people with a disability, such as blindness, or who cant use their hands, to begin to use such technology.

How Google Retooled Android With Help From Your Brain | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com.

More VirtualBox Tips

Key for this post

• os:  operating system
• vbox: VirtualBox
• Host:  the main os you installed vbox on
• Guest: any os installed inside vbox

Following on from this post about vbox click here I thought it great to add this extra tips. If you have a legal copy of Windows, (not in use on any computer) you can also install and run it in vbox along with Linux os. There are 2 additional things needed to make your vbox installs run at their best.

vbox Guest additions: this is necessary to get full functioning of the os inside vbox.

1. setup and install your operating system 
2. boot into the operating system.
3. click on the “Devices” menu in the virtual machine’s menu bar
4. select “Install guest additions”

thats it Guest additions are installed. for more information in guest additions look in chapter 4 in the manual click here

usb 2.0 support: for usb 2.0 support in your guest operating system you need to install the “usb 2.0 extension pack”

1. install the extension pack for your version of vbox click here
2. click on the installed package and a Network Operations Manager window will appear, guiding you through the required steps.

I hope this helps you  get the most out of  vbox. this is by no means the end of vbox and what it can do. Will post more later.