Comments on: Multiple tabs & parallel browsing http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2008/04/25/multiple-tabs-parallel-browsing/ Laura's view on her world Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:32:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Thomas http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2008/04/25/multiple-tabs-parallel-browsing/#comment-15517 Thomas Fri, 09 May 2008 18:47:44 +0000 http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/?p=110#comment-15517 Laura, I've had 3 OLPC's for 5 months which I have been testing with my two primary school age children. If you haven't done it already, install update 1 immediately and the peru activity pack. Don't even think of using 653 or 656. Those builds were alpha and useless. Update 1 is very close to being what should have shipped with the G1G1 program, and the software is really good for primary children. Also, drop on FBReader for ebooks (does not have a sugar container as yet, but has been compiled for olpc by somebody.) I have worked for over fifteen years in Uganda, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Central America in development (I am an anthropologist as well as a geek). I set up a project in northern Uganda for children (semi-nomadic pastoralists) with no access to anything...school, electricty, books... which was very successful (tens of thousands of children have now received a primary education through this project at a cost of about £30 a year / student). This device would have been an absolute godsend. Get another OLPC and put two kids together with update 1 and watch them. It is amazing. I have to say they really got it right...it is very annoying to use as an adult, used to core2duos and 3d graphic cards...but for the target audience this is a remarkably good device. I have been in correspondence with Nicholas Negroponte over his shift to Microsoft...and I think I can say he really doesn't see how offtrack this latest direction is. Thomas Cumbria Laura,
I’ve had 3 OLPC’s for 5 months which I have been testing with my two primary school age children. If you haven’t done it already, install update 1 immediately and the peru activity pack. Don’t even think of using 653 or 656. Those builds were alpha and useless. Update 1 is very close to being what should have shipped with the G1G1 program, and the software is really good for primary children. Also, drop on FBReader for ebooks (does not have a sugar container as yet, but has been compiled for olpc by somebody.) I have worked for over fifteen years in Uganda, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Central America in development (I am an anthropologist as well as a geek). I set up a project in northern Uganda for children (semi-nomadic pastoralists) with no access to anything…school, electricty, books… which was very successful (tens of thousands of children have now received a primary education through this project at a cost of about £30 a year / student). This device would have been an absolute godsend. Get another OLPC and put two kids together with update 1 and watch them. It is amazing. I have to say they really got it right…it is very annoying to use as an adult, used to core2duos and 3d graphic cards…but for the target audience this is a remarkably good device. I have been in correspondence with Nicholas Negroponte over his shift to Microsoft…and I think I can say he really doesn’t see how offtrack this latest direction is.

Thomas
Cumbria

]]> By: Nick O'Leary http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2008/04/25/multiple-tabs-parallel-browsing/#comment-14539 Nick O'Leary Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:31:21 +0000 http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/?p=110#comment-14539 My Nokia N800 suffers from a similiar problem. When browsing, it has a full-screen mode which is essential for making the most of the screen. The browser doesn't do tabs, but you can open links into new windows, however they open on top of the current window. To get back to the window you were reading, you have to exit full-screen mode, select the window you were on and then return to full-screen. This completely breaks the flow of parallel browsing (nice term by the way). I long for an option to open links in new windows in the background, so I can go to them when I am ready. My Nokia N800 suffers from a similiar problem. When browsing, it has a full-screen mode which is essential for making the most of the screen.

The browser doesn’t do tabs, but you can open links into new windows, however they open on top of the current window. To get back to the window you were reading, you have to exit full-screen mode, select the window you were on and then return to full-screen. This completely breaks the flow of parallel browsing (nice term by the way). I long for an option to open links in new windows in the background, so I can go to them when I am ready.

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