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Its been a hectic few days for me and I couldn't find any time to post anything relevant to Jolicloud's fan experience. But today is the day I get a few moments to myself.

Uploading 4MB photos directly from your camera via Jolicloud to Facebook isn't the fun when your on a 3G modem with bad reception. Don't you fear, Joli's big brother Ubuntu has simple remedy that can be installed. Nautilus-image-converter resizes and rotates images within nautilus... makes since right?

To Install:

Open your Terminal (alt+f1) and paste (ctrl+shift+v): sudo aptitude install nautilus-image-converter 

Restart or logout.

To Use:

Select the image/s that which you would like to manipulate and right click. You will now notice the added options near the bottom of the list. 

Enjoy Joliclouding :-)

Firewall and network stats monitor

Firestarter doesn't sound like a safe program, but it is. Firestarter is a Firewall app for Linux, that can help you monitor your browsing and those who are connecting to you. Not only does it give basic statistics of your connection speed, receiving and set data, but can help you share an internet connection. Great for those who use a USB HSDPA or 3G modem and want to share it via your WIFI card or Ethernet.

So far I'm totally unaware if Jolicloud is thinking of making an application which can tie in with your USB modem so that you can monitor your connection status or even send out SMS. Its on the wish list for me. But Firestarter seems to be the next best thing for monitoring connections.

Installing
Open your Terminal and paste: sudo apt-get install firestarter

Once it is finished installing, you can access it from your classic menu. If you would like to read up more you can read the basic tutorial on Ubuntu Help page. Enjoy!

Simple FTP client for Jolicloud

Need a FTP client? don't look any further. Lunix has a sweet and simple FTP client called gFTP. You can easily install it via Terminal, they keying in-  sudo apt-get install gftp. Tada! Now you upload, download, manage or whatever you do with your vurtural properties.

 Now if your a Filezilla fan? No problem, paste this into your Terminal: sudo apt-get install filezilla. ;-D

Wallpaper for your secondary other OS...

Usually running Jolicloud means your on a net-book, and you probably are dual booting with some other OS. Don't worry me too! :-D

So yea, if you looking for some wallpaper for your other side. Here ya go! Great on 1024x600 screens.

Spell Checker on Jolicloud

I for one am not a real-time speller. When working in Open Office, tomboy, or chatting on pidgin I have to rely on a spell checker to correct me when type as above normal speeds. When I installed Jolicloud I instantly had a problem... yup you guessed it, no spell checker!!

So, how do we go about fixing our little problem? simpel enuogh I wuold sayy...

Open your terminal (press alt-f1)
paste (shift+ctrl+v): sudo apt-get install aspell-en
then tap 'Enter'

If your looking for a language other than English, open the Synaptic Manager (just like in the Tomboy install tutorial) and search for aspell. Once it has finished its search, scroll down and look for the initials for the your language. Mark For Install, and then Apply. Ayos na!!

Jolicloud 1.0 video

My unofficial Jolicloud shirt!

Well what can I say? I wanted a Tshirt! So I made one, and walked all around MOA, Makati and rode the LRT. Had 3 people ask me what Jolicloud was, it was funny though.

Notes... and then there is TomBoy

I have notes, quite a lot actually, but then its different when its all organized. Jolicloud doesn't have any native note taking manager as of the moment, but if you are the type of person (like me) who can't live without Tomboy you're in luck! If you're a newbie, don't worry this little tutorial wont be complicated ;-D

A)

•       Open your terminal and type, sudo apt-get install tomboy.
  
•       Then hit Enter.
•       You will be prompted to enter your password.
•       It should install instantly

OR

B)

• Open your terminal and type, sudo synaptic
• Then hit Enter.
• You will be prompted to enter your password

The Synaptic Manager will open,

click on the search button, search for tomboy. Once the search is complete, "Mark for installation" tomboy. Then click apply.

Bingo thats how you can add the famous note taking tool to your Jolicloud experience ;-)

More power control

Jolicloud hasn't yet released a app that can help manage you notebook's hardware. Since JC is based on Ubuntu there is a default CPU Manager that can be added to the top panel. But... it ain't cool as Jupiter!. Jupiter is a great application which does- well everything it's suppose to do. It sits on your top panel and by clicking the thunderbolt icon, an awesome menu will pop with options to tweak or adjust your hardware settings. Jupiter can easily be downloaded here.

Simple beginnings...

Jolicloud... for some it's yet another linux distro that makes (their) life complicated with extra choices to debate about, but you can't just rate Jolicloud as just another linux distro till you actually try it. Now wait... some of you are just waiting to give your own personal opinions on this matter, but keep in mind that Jolicloud meets its mission! Yah you can do everything on Bill's and Steve's toys, but when you want to do anything, Ubuntu screams out. And it doesn't end there, you find yourself tweaking, modding and updating till the you realize that you just wasted the whole afternoon. If you want to save yourself the trouble, give Jolicloud a try.

Jolicloud works right-out-of-the-box, made specifically for Atom powered toys, so there isn't much to expect. Nonsense! Jolicloud brings out the productivity and speed from the underestimated machines. With HTML5 and Touchscreen support, that like icing on the cake! The simple GUI gives it a professional look , which by the way keeps getting better and better as the JC team pushes forward into the development process.

So now whats the point with the blog you ask? I'm not the a Linux genius, but do know my way around. Here at the Crazy Jolicloud I hope to share some tweaks and news the OS that is part of my daily work flow. Having said that, welcome to the Crazy Jolicloud, an unofficial blog for the locals of the Republic of the Philippines.