When you upgrade your Snow Leopard to Lion, you were probably expecting to find an experience that was better, not worse. Gestures that made your computing experience more seamless and not more fragmented. Apparently, this is not the case for some of you. There were a lot of hardware issue and software incompatibility. It get so bad that some of you wanted to downgrade to Snow Leopard. Here’s how you can do it.
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DexOS – The Tiny Toy OS That Runs Like a Game Console
By | March 24, 2011 | 6 Comments
Most of the time at MTE, we focus on tutorials, reviews, and other practical applications of modern technology. Occasionally, however, some neat new toy pops up that we’ve just got to share. Such is DexOS, and if you’ve got an affinity for custom operating systems or new ways of computing, you might enjoy tinkering with it as much as I do. It’s a custom OS written entirely in assembly, which means it’s FAST and SMALL. How fast and how small? This author has seen it start up in a virtual machine in about 5 seconds, and it can fit on a floppy disc. That’s right, a floppy disc.
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Customizing Glide OS [Part 2]
By | October 5, 2010 |
In our earlier article, we discussed how you can set up an online operating system using Glide OS.
Glide OS 4.0 is a free cloud computing solution, which offers a wide range of web based applications under one umbrella. Glide provides cross platform compatibility for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and a wide range of mobile devices which includes Android, iPhone etc.
If you have missed the earlier article, we recommend reading it first and then read this one which discusses the following points:
- Syncing files from multiple computers to online operating system
- Managing folders in Online glide OS.
- Using Glide applications for various computing jobs
- Customizing the Glide desktop.
Glide OS: Online Operating System With 30 GB of Free Storage [Part 1]
By | October 3, 2010 |
Web based apps are really useful because of the fact that they can be used from any computer without having to download or install anything. Since the launch of Google Chrome OS, we have seen a lot of cloud computing solutions come and go.
Services like Dropbox, iDriveSync offer a decent amount of online storage while Windows live skydrive aims to create an online hard drive with 25 GB of free online storage space.
But in reality, it’s more than the storage which you need for everyday computing jobs. If you are a heavyweight web worker, you need the following applications at your disposal:
- A Word processor – Google Docs, Docs.com and good alternatives.
- Image editor – Picnick, Aviary Image editor.
- Blogging client.
- FTP access.
- Spreadsheet and presentations.
- File sync
- Social networking – Yoono, Tweetdeck etc.
- Email, Meetings or Project management.
The list depends from one user to another. Hence, getting all of these applications under one hood is really a challenge and Glide OS is one of the comprehensive solutions to a web based Operating system
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How to Install VirtualBox in Your USB Drive and Run any Operating System
By | January 2, 2010 |
As we walk in the year 2010, Operating systems are not machine specific anymore. Google chrome OS has launched which marks a new era in the beginning of cloud based Operating system. But sometimes the cloud can be a little difficult to maintain, especially when you prefer using a USB stick for doing your day to day tasks with the computer, taking backups, moving files and working in multiple computers like in Office, home or may be some other place.
Thus sometimes you may need an operating system that would be portable, so that you can run it from your removable drive and from any computer. We have covered Mojopack earlier, which lets you carry a “self made system environment” in your USB drive. But Mojopack is not any operating system and it depends upon the host computer where you would be using it.
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