Wednesday, September 1, 2010

SCHOOLOS(Part-2)

I made the first post with out actually trying SCHOOLOS myself and when I tried it myself, I was amazed and lost myself with the applications that come prebundled with SCHOOLOS.Two of them are :


The first and foremost of all applications I rate is the TUX Paint that comes in the education tools.I heard it's a drawing tool for children.So I opened it keeping in mind that some kids like stuff will come teaching every aspect as the mouse hovers.But wonder what I directly started working on the drawing sheet and the custom sound in the back ground made me feel more interactive with what I am drawing.I clicked on the magic tool and the options that it could provide are amazing.There is an option called bricks and when I started using on the drawing arena, a custom sound came from the background that comes when the bricks are arranged to build a wall, and I am building a wall on the foreground.Next with glass panes, and so on.Every option is amazing and if you start using it, you will become mad for drawing.

The next best application until now of all I used is the game SUPERTUX2, what a game it was.It's the same as the mario game, but the characters and the playing arena are changed to antarctica mode.Mario was replaced with a penguin and the duck with a small bug that is always present inside a ice cube.When you start playing it, you will get a feel of the real antarctica, the totally white interface, the ice cubes, penguins etc.,But quitting this application had always been a trouble for me.I need to wait for 5 min, after I hit the quit button to get it closed.But that couldn't resist me playing this game.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

SCHOOLOS

Ubuntu, a perfect answer of open source for the windows.But there are two main problems with this:

1.When a normal user suddenly shifts from windows to Ubuntu he feels confused and needs to waste a lot of time to get accustomed with the new one
2.When it comes to India or if you go to a country that has less connectivity with internet, this OS fails.Because along with the operating system only the quite essential softwares come and when it comes to multimedia, it frequently asks for codecs to be installed.

School OS is an OS that mainly addresses and tweaks all these problems.It is made keeping the Ubuntu as base operating system.So shifting from either windows or Ubuntu is not a big deal.This OS has also enhanced the features of right click a lot with a lot more flexibility for regular programmers.For more information, visit SCHOOLOS and there is a free distributor of this OS with in our campus, if you need an ISO image.You can contact him through mail.This is his gmail id "pahninsd@gmail.com"

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Message problems

Many of us may be facing situations like, we have message balance and our friend doesn't or vice versa.What would you do in a situation like this:simple-use way2sms or 160by2.com to send free sms from pc to phone, The problems faced by the person with no message balance are as follows:
1.He needs to constantly check his inbox in phone for the messages received.
2.He has to constantly switch from phone to PC and PC to phone


What if all this is replaced by a thing like the person with no message balance can read the reply to his message like a chat reply and could send his next reply just as he does chatting.Yahoo mail does exactly the same thing.I don't know about old yahoo mail, but when you are in yahoo mail classic, click ctrl+shift+t and a new tab opens asking u for the number and message to be sent.You needn't disclose your own number, and yahoo sends the message through a number with in that country, but it starts with a '5' and tell the other person not to panic for losing original balance and send reply to that number.And her reply will be seen in the same tab by u like a chat reply in which you sent her message.The only problem that the person with message balance faces is that if he sends a single sms, it will cost him three sms, this will not be a problem I think since most of us will be having either unlimited message offer or some thing like 15000 messages which we will never be able to complete and three messages from those is not a big deal to lose.