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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    XO OLPC LAPTOP USER GUIDE Contents [hide] 1 By the Community, For the Community: Introducing the XO 2 About computers 3 Opening the XO 4 Starting and shutting down the XO 4.1 Starting 4.2 Shutting down 5 Connecting your XO to the network...

  • Page 2: By The Community, For The Community: Introducing The Xo

    Know that the community would be glad to hear them. We hope that the XO is helpful, that you enjoy and learn from it. Our utmost hope is that someday you will join us in making it better.

  • Page 3: About Computers

    The uses of the XO is only limited by your own imagination. What can your XO do? Your XO can store an entire library of written stories, videos, and pictures. It can make and play music. It contains Activities that you can use to learn math, play games, create pictures, and communicate with others.

  • Page 4: Starting And Shutting Down The Xo

    Starting When you press the power button for the first time, the XO starts up after about two minutes, and then asks your name. The next time you start it, it will remember your name and go directly to the Home screen.

  • Page 5: Shutting Down

    When you're done using the computer, go to the Home view, and then hover the pointer over the middle XO icon until you see a menu. Next, choose to Shutdown to ensure your laptop stops properly. The Reboot and Shutdown options appear when you hover your mouse over the XO icon in the Home view.
  • Page 6 Wireless key requested While the XO is connecting to the network, the access point blinks. A white outline indicates that your XO is connected. To disconnect from the network, hover the pointer over the access point and click Disconnect on the menu.Once your XO is connected, you can use the Browse Activity to access the...

  • Page 7: Cleaning And Caring For Your Xo

    The XO laptop has no hard drive to crash and only two internal cables, so it is less likely to fail than other laptops. For added robustness, the XO's plastic walls are thicker than the standards for other laptops. Its green mesh network antennas, or "bunny ears,"...
  • Page 8 1. When the process is complete, the XO restarts and the update is complete. Tips If you cannot connect to the Internet with your XO, you can still update by connecting to the Internet from another computer and downloading the latest image from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images.

  • Page 9: Personalizing Your Xo

    1. Click Stop in the Terminal Activity to stop the Terminal Activity and return to the Home View. Personalizing your XO When you start your XO, you'll see a small O on top of an X. This symbol represents you when you use your XO. Click this person symbol to choose colors that you like best.

  • Page 10: Avoiding Loss Of Your Xo

    Although your XO handle is sturdy enough for you to carry your XO by itself, you may want to put your XO in a bag with a shoulder strap for easier carrying. When you first start the XO, if a school server is available, it registers with your school's server to give you additional storage for pictures or stories that you make.

  • Page 11: Copying The Xo Contents (Backing Up)

    "back up" your information. This "back up" process means that if you ever lost a song or image or story that you wrote, you can get it back (recover it) from your school server and put it on your XO laptop. If you think you have lost something, ask your teacher to run the backup-restore command.

  • Page 12: Conserving Disk Space

    Your XO laptop can store a limited number of files on its 1 GB flash disk drive. You should maintain your XO so that it does not run out of storage space for new files. You can delete some items by using the Journal Activity.

  • Page 13: Using Battery Power

    Your XO needs power to run. Power is electricity, and there are two ways for your XO to get it: from its battery or from a power cord. A fully charged battery should run your XO laptop for about three hours.

  • Page 14: Activities

    Hardware specification Battery and power Battery Charging Activities Learning is hard fun. —Seymour Papert You can play with your XO laptop while you learn with it. There are plenty of Activities that are fun to play with while learning. Chat...

  • Page 15: Browse

    Chat Activity You can use your XO laptop to tell other people about your life, writing stories, taking pictures, writing music, and sharing any of those things with others. You can share by showing someone the screen in person, or you can share by sending files to other people. Your teacher also probably has ideas about how to share and collaborate with your classmates and your family to help you learn from others.

  • Page 16: Write

    Browse Activity Your XO gives you tools to explore the world from where you sit. When you are connected to the network, you can read web pages from the Internet. Browse the Internet using a web browser. View the source of web pages by pressing Ctrl-U.
  • Page 17 Express yourself. Make a diary to record your life experiences. Write a poem or one hundred poems. Compose a letter for someone you've never met. Describe things you see, or imagine. Create your own world or how you'd like our world to be. Name your writing.

  • Page 18: Record

    Use this activity to record your voice with the built-in microphone, or take pictures or video with the built-in camera. Speak to your XO while recording, and a built-in microphone and stereo speakers let you record and play back your voice or music recordings. With an external microphone and speaker jacks, you can turn your XO into a portable music player or speech recorder.

  • Page 19: Draw

    OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Sugar Interface#Microphone and Speakers Draw Draw Activity Express yourself through drawing. You can draw freehand using the paintbrush and pencil tools. Related links Draw TamTam...

  • Page 20: Etoys

    TamTam Jam Activity Use TamTam to make or play music and have fun. TamTam Mini is a simple starting point for playing music TamTam Edit is where you compose. SynthLab is where you design complex sounds. TamTam Jam is where you perform your music. Choose different instruments and right-click to assign a key to the track.

  • Page 21: Turtle Art

    EToys Activity To start EToys, from the Frame, press the shooting-star icon Paint a picture. Record sounds around you. Share your drawings and pictures with buddies on your network. Design and make a car you would like to learn how to drive. Create objects of different weights and see how gravity works on them.

  • Page 22: Pippy

    Play with Turtle Art to draw colorful art patterns using a turtle that accepts programming instructions for movement. With visual programming elements, you can snap together programs in compilable ways to create anything you can imagine. Related links Turtle Art Pippy Pippy Activity A tool for exploring programming concepts.

  • Page 23: Memorize

    Calculate Activity Use the Calculator Activity for classic calculator functions such as add, subtract, divide and multiply, as well as scientific functions such as cos, sin, exp, and so on. Related links Software Release Notes#Calc Memorize Memorize Activity Click a square in the top half of the grid and remember the sum.

  • Page 24: Measure

    Learn what they mean and how to use them. Measure Measure Activity A tool for exploring the physical world. Display a visual image of a waveform for sound heard by the XO microphone. Measure DC and AC voltages and observing them on a oscilloscope-like interface.

  • Page 25: News Reader

    Log data at a specified time interval, and then draw the graph of logged data. With observations about water or bugs or leaves or trees, you can determine patterns and perhaps predictability in the natural world around you. News Reader News Reader Activity Read subscriptions to newspapers or websites using the NewsReader Activity as an interface for viewing news feeds with RSS, or Really...

  • Page 26: Quick Keyboard Shortcuts

    1. To use the reader, use the Browse Activity to download the .xo file from wiki.laptop.org. 2. When the .xo file has downloaded, save it to your Journal. 3. Go to your Journal, click on the Read.xo file. and click the Resume icon. The Read Activity should now be installed.

  • Page 27: Viewing The Xo Screen In Sunlight And Adjusting The Volume

    Viewing the XO screen in sunlight and adjusting the volume Brightness & volume keys The top row of the XO keyboard has three long buttons. The long button on the far right controls the lighting and sound on the display.

  • Page 28: Being Safe With The Xo

    APPROPRIATE INTERNET FILTER, REMAIN INVOLVED IN YOUR CHILD’S USE OF THE INTERNET AND, OF COURSE, STAY ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN YOUR CHILD’S EDUCATION." By our estimates, your XO should last at least five years. To help ensure such durability, take care of it well.
  • Page 29 The Frame The entire XO screen has a dark gray border called the frame. The left, top, and right sides of the frame represents nouns: persons, places, and things. The bottom of the frame represents those elements that require action: activities, invitations, and notifications.
  • Page 30 Activities until you close some. Right side of the frame shows your XO buddies (image) The menu on the right-hand side of the frame contains the XO icons of the people with whom you are collaborating on XO online projects.
  • Page 31 Adding a buddy Hovering over an XO icon creates a pop-up window with the name of the person associated with that icon and a menu that can be used to add this person to your Friend View as a friend.

  • Page 32: Understanding Xo Hardware

    Understanding XO Activities Activities are fun things to do and share on the XO. Start an Activity by clicking on the picture for it in the bottom part of the frame or click on Activity in the Activity Circle.

  • Page 33: Installing New Xo Activities

    You can rename a saved version of the Activity by typing into the text field on the Activity Tab. Sometimes you can share the Activity with another user on the XO network by selecting "My Neighborhood" within the activity. Joining an Activity...
  • Page 34 Puzzle game as part of the MaMaMedia Creative Center. 4. Download the .xo file by clicking on the file. In this example, you go to a second page. Download the .xo file by clicking the link on the resulting page.
  • Page 35 2. Put your cursor in the upper left corner and then click Home. 3. Click the Journal to launch the Journal Activity. From the Journal Activity, click the downloaded .xo file and then click the circle with a square in it.

  • Page 36: Getting Support For Your Xo

    5. Enjoy your new Activity! Alternative ways of installing Activities might be: Placing a .xo file on an usb-stick, in Journal browsing to the stick, and then clicking on the Activity If you have a .xo file, running the command 'sugar-install-bundle filename.xo'...
  • Page 37 An entire community built this XO and everything on it, and we want to help you with it. If you have any questions about the XO, ask your teacher for help, or search on the Internet. The wiki.laptop.org website contains helpful information for using and fixing your XO.

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