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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[Congrats on the 5000th post! What hardware were you running that on? I want to try it on my MacBook, but just haven't gotten around to it yet.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 12:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[Thanks! Just ran in VMware Fusion on my MacBook Pro. It's a little wonky but definitely works.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Block]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 1:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[I really like that interface.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[govkid201]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 12:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[Is resolution very low on the screen you're using or is that just a big honkin cursor?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[greatslack]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 12:54PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why use fusion?  Just pop the cd in the drive and hold the d key down.  Boots right up.  It is a little wonky, would be nice if it actually could get out on the net.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[barrywoods]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 1:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[windows 3.1 eat ur heart out, seriously how old does that GUI look? even normal linux without XGL looks about 5 years ahead of that.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[IrishGandalf]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 1:14PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[A nice throwback to the eighties. If anyone can tell me what those 4 icons in the top left corner mean, congratulations! So I guess the vintage old school look is in, huh? Seriously, I'm all in favor of a cool user interface for kids but ultimately they will have to use the user interfaces that are in use in the *real* world. Oh well, nice effort anyway and surely something good will come out of it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jean-Michel Decombe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 1:22PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[Because I wanted an easy way to take screen caps at 800 x 600, naturally!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Block]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 2:01PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[One word. Awful]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pelon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 2:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[I played with this last night.  Kinda neat interface, absolutely zero configuration possibilities.  Not sure why barrywoods had issues, I had no problems getting to the net on my Dell lappy.  If I could get it to work with wireless, that would be something.  Might make a nice little internet terminal on some really low end hardware...Lord knows I've got plenty of that laying around...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 2:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[Mystery Meat Navigation!<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation</a><br><a href="http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/myster" rel="nofollow">http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/myster</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ignacio]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 2:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[Mitch: it seems to run on the macbook pro booting straight from the CD (hold C on boot up)<br><br>greatslack : yes it is a big honkin cursor at any res<br><br>Jean-Michel Decombe: The four icons at the top seem to be network and app related. I have not seen it working in a network setting yet but the single dot brings up your home(?) screen. The rectangle brings up the app you are working in. The 3 dots show what I assume would be peer network and multi dots I'm guessing would be overall network. (f1-f4 cycle through these)<br><br><br>So far I’m guessing the weirdness of the interface is due to using it on Mac or PC hardware. I’d really like to try it on the $100 hardware before judgment. For now, I think kids will pick it up pretty quickly and adults (read as: the Microsoft tainted) will likely have a tougher time. <br><br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[design4food]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 2:55PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why would Negroponte think that 3rd world kids are a bunch of retards? At least that is the only way I can interpret the UI. Why not just give them what everyone else uses? Fluxbox, Gnome, KDE or even windows would be better than this.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 3:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[What is the deal with the skull and crossbones? Is the end user dead, a pirate or both?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[required]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 6:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[The interface is great to use. The activity extensions interface (custom apps) is really great. I think they achieved what they wanted, a simple interface with little to no text (for internationalization) and a Window Manager that gets the hell out of the way and lets you use the application you have opened. Its simple, clean and easy to understand. The 4 Icons at the top are very neat. Think of them as "Show Desktop", "Network Places", "Workgroup" and "Entire Network" icons in Windows.<br><br>I don't think they are belittling the kids with this interface, instead they are trying to make a simple and extensible interface for the educational environment. I for one think it works quite well. It could use some color, but other than that it is great.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Timbobsteve]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2007 10:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[I wrote my own little review of the Sugar environment, running it via Parallels on a Mac.<br><br>Check it out at <a href="http://www.steffanwilliams.co.uk/software/my-look-at-sugar" rel="nofollow">http://www.steffanwilliams.co.uk/software/my-look-at-sugar</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steffan Williams]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 12th 2007 7:17AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[All the posts about how 'old' or 'outated' or 'from the eighties' that interface is... Read a bit more  about OLPC before to comment. Look at the target audience, do you really think a kid from Lybia cares about the latest Linux front-end? The answer is...no! All they want is to have means of communication... So how do you get a computer-illiterate kid to work on a computer? put in front of him simple graphics and a simple interface...<br>Sugar is genius...<br>I've had the honnor to work on another aspect of OLPC, and I LOVE SUGAR!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marc]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 14th 2007 10:07AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/</guid><description><![CDATA[ceeb looma ogola cidna]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jokerman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2007 8:53AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>