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Here is a list of the 128 pages with Property:Short description:
| Short description | |
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| ABC Flower | A hangman game. |
| Acoustic Tape Measure | TODO! -- measures the physical distance between two XOs. |
| Analyze | Analyze is an Activity that displays your XO's networking, X (graphical) display, and presence service status. It is useful to developers and end-users as an easy way for users to monitor and submit data for monitoring/debugging networking/X issues. |
| Assimilate | A flashcard activity. |
| Asteroids | Based on the Asteroids port to pygame. See http://www.pygame.org/project/506/. This version of Asteroids is Asteroids 6 by Ian Mallett. |
| Babel | Babel is a simple physics game based on building as tall a tower as possible in 60 seconds, and then bashing that tower with as few slingshot shots as possible. |
| Berkeley Logo | An interpreter for the Logo programming language. |
| Bounce | A fast paced 3D action game for the XO laptop. The game is analogous to the arcade game Pong, however it takes place within a three dimensional box with physical effects such as gravity. |
| Bridge | Teaches the basics of mechanical engineering through building a bridge across a ravine. |
| Browse | A web browser. |
| ByJove | Plot Jupiter's Moons |
| COBBLE | A Toolkit for exploring Finite Mathematics. Finite mathematics encompasses the topics of probability, combinatorics, set theory, and propositional logic and game theory. |
| Calc-42S | Emulation of the Hewlett-Packard HP-42S calulator. |
| Calculate | TODO! A simple calculator, that also supports more complicated math and variables |
| Candy | An automated python tutor. |
| Cartoon Builder | Create your own cell-animation sequences, by positioning and manipulating a playful cartoon character inside a filmstrip, and by using provided media assets -- backgrounds, characters in multiple poses, sound effects. |
| Cell Management (activity) | Science game |
| Chat | A chat program. |
| Classroom Presenter | Collaborative classroom slide show tool. |
| Clock activity | The Clock activity aims at two simple goals:
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| ColingoXO | ColingoXO creates a platform for constructivist language-learning by letting children splice video clips to create and share video narratives. Children will be able to use all video clips from the Colingo video library or alternatively record new clips with the XO camera and microphone. |
| Colors! | Colors is a simple natural media painting activity for the XO laptop, based on a Nintendo DS program by Jens Andersson. |
| Connect | The Connect activity implements the game of [Connect-4] as a two-player game. Additional participants can watch the game, and will have a chance to play the winner of the current game. |
| Conozco Uruguay | Geography of Uruguay: quiz and discovery |
| ConstellationsFlashCards | Learn the Constellations |
| Detect motion (activity) | Take image on detection of motion.http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/motion-2007-03-05.tar.bz2 |
| Develop | The Develop activity is the activity for making or modifying other activities. Currently, it comprises a tree view of files in an activity's directory and a python source code editor (tabbed). Other features are actively being worked on. |
| Doom (activity) | Doom is a first person shooter game with content that is probably not suitable for young children, but is great fun for older ones. Freedoom is a free software clone of Doom, based on improvements made to Doom's 3d engine with new maps and monsters. |
| Duck Hunt | Duck Hunt |
| EASE | A webpage editor developed to be used by children. |
| EPals | ePals is a online pen pal and project activity for OLPC that can be used on the XO by children and teachers, providing access to a global classroom community of learners in a safe and protected context. |
| Editor Musical | The Musical Editor is a musical software that allows children to learn how to develop their own compositions. |
| Etoys | Etoys is a cross-platform, media-rich authoring environment and visual programming system for teaching children powerful ideas. |
| ExecCommand (activity) | This utility is targeted at experienced Linux/Unix users who hope to feel more at home with the XO. On launch, this activity either launches a predefined Unix command (you have to edit the script contained in the activity), or starts an graphical dialog and queries the user for what command to run. Useful for starting vncviewer or xmms. |
| Finance | Finance is a simple financial planning activity. |
| Flickr Slideshow | Simlarly to the Chumby, this activity will use the Flickr API and display a slideshow based off of a given stream. |
| Flipsticks | Flipsticks is a NEW keyframe animation activity that lets you pose and program a stick figure to walk, run, rotate, twist, tumble and dance. You can save your animations to the journal and will soon be able to share them via the mesh. Flipsticks can be used to explore concepts in geometry, computer programming and animation; it helps develop spatial and analytical thinking skills. |
| FollowMe | A simple object detector |
| Food Force 2 | FoodForce 2 has been designed to educate and motivate people to solve world hunger by educating children and teachers in a village on how to achieve self sustenance in a fun and non-intrusive way. It also provides awareness about the work WFP has been doing for the past many decades to abate the problem of world hunger. |
| Frotz | This activity is a wrapper around the Unix port of Frotz, which is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games. It includes one game, the classic Adventure. You can download more games here: Frotz/Games. |
| GBrainy | A brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained. |
| GCompris | A suite of children's activities that has won a prize for educational software. |
| Gambiarra | Gambiarra is an Incredible Machine-like game developed during Game Jam Brasil 2007. |
| Games/FiftyTwo | FiftyTwo is a set of card games, such as Go Fish, Crazy Eights, Hearts, Solitaire, and maybe eventually games like Eucher or Spades. |
| Geoquiz | Geoquiz is a geography guessing game. |
| Gmail | A Gmail activity that launches Gmail from the frame. |
| Guido van Robot | A programming language and free software application designed to introduce beginners to the fundamentals of programming. |
| Helix media activity | Watch & Listen is a media player based on the Helix Media Engine. The Helix engine uses a plugin system to provide compatibility with a wide array of formats. By default Watch & Listen will ship with only free codecs, separate bundles are available for non-free codecs. |
| Help (activity) | The Sugar and XO manual as an activity. |
| Help 1.5 | The Sugar and XO manual as an activity. |
| HorseGame | Click or press 'a' to drop an apple. Press 'c' to drop a carrot. The horse will run over and eat the food. |
| ISIS | Allow children constructing interactive fiction games with media objects (images, videos, sounds) easily. |
| Implode | A logic game based on the "falling block" model of Tetris. |
| Inferno | Inferno® is a distributed operating system, originally developed at Bell Labs, but now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova® as Free Software. |
| Interview | An activity for recording an interview with someone else using an XO. It works with the built-in camera and mic or with an external microphone. This is currently being developed in coordination with the OurStories project to make the XO an effective tool for recording stories. |
| Jigsaw Puzzle | Jigsaw Puzzle is based on the classic picture-constructing game, but has the option to add your own pictures. It strengthens visual, spacial and problem solving skills and offers a context to creatively reflect on and explore any subject. |
| Jogo do Piano/lang-en | The Piano Game |
| Joke Machine | Allows XO users to start a multimedia jokebook with images and sound effects and invite others to read their jokes via the mesh. Friends can also submit their own jokes to a shared jokebook. |
| Journal | The Journal activity is an automated diary of everything a child does with his or her laptop. It is the equivalent of a file browser. |
| Kremala | A funny and educational game for children. |
| KremalaOne | It is a simple game for children. It's a funny and educational game. |
| Kuku | Kuku (Hungry Chicken), is based on the basic arithmetic education game Number Munchers. |
| License | An interactive licensing module that allows laptop users to decide upon a license for the content they create. Using iconic, comic book style documentation (see Sharing Creative Works below), the activity is designed to educate children and parents about Creative Commons' licensing options. |
| Log | Log is an activity for developers to examine the log files that are generated by system software and other activities. Logs can also be uploaded to OLPC's servers to allow support staff to assist with troubleshooting. |
| Magic Maze | A simple and low-tech monster-bashing maze game. |
| Make 25 | An easy game that focuses on number sense. Try to make sets of two cards that will make 25. You can change the position of the cards by clicking on the cards. |
| Map (activity) | The Map activity allows children to create geo-tagged media mashups. Children can place images, videos, and audio recordings onto maps of their communities. |
| MapStats | Introduces students to maps and statistics with color-coded maps. Includes several lesson plans and interesting data sets. More advanced classes can learn the concept of queries and create their own data sets. |
| Maze | A simple maze game for the XO laptop. You can play by yourself or race to solve it with your buddies. Up to 3 people can play on a single XO laptop and lots more can play when shared over the network. |
| Measure | TODO!: Measure lets kids measure the real world with their XO and provides a visual and statistical representation. |
| Micropolis | Micropolis is one of the oldest and grandest of city simulation games |
| MikMik | MikMik is a wiki built on top of the Bazaar distributed revision control system. In simple use, it acts like any number of simple wikis. However, it provides a text-specific "word-by-word" interface to difference reflection and resolution. More importantly, it provides a Javascript interface for conflict resolution. |
| Mini vMac | Macintosh Plus emulator. |
| Model | Model allows you to do System Dynamics modeling on the XO. System dynamics helps you think about and solve problems involving things changing over time. |
| MonkeysMemory | MonkeysMemory is an simple activity that realize the game of Memory. |
| Moon | A simple Lunar phase activity for the XO laptop, including upcoming Lunar eclipse information and effects. |
| Music Jigsaw | The Music Jigsaw is a cultural activity with purpose, where the child will learn to recognize music, both popular and classical. The game uses musical sections as if they were pieces of a broken head, where the child puts these parts in order to get the temporal full stretch. |
| Musical Editor | The Musical Editor is a musical software that allows children to learn how to develop their own compositions. |
| News Reader | An interface for viewing news feeds (RSS feeds). |
| Our Stories | Our Stories (http://www.ourstories.org) is a joint project involving OLPC, UNICEF, Google, and others to facilitate children telling their own stories and those of their communities around the world. The basic format will be 3-5 minute audio recordings with geodata, and optional text and images; these will be visualized on maps of the world, and shared publicly over local and global networks. |
| Paint act | The Paint activity will provide a canvas for an individual or a group of children to express themselves creatively through drawing. |
| Panorama | An auto-stitching panorama activity that uploads to Flickr. |
| Physics (activity) | A physics playground for the XO. |
| Pippy | Activity for learning Python programming:Pippy provides access to Python code samples and a fully interactive Python interpreter.
The user can type and execute simple Python expressions. For example, it would be possible for a user to write Python statements to calculate expressions, play sounds, or make simple text animation. The initial build ships with about twenty short Python examples covering various aspects of the language. |
| Poblano | Pygame version of Abalone: a two-player strategy board game which can be quaintly summarized as "sumo wrestling with marbles", as the objective is to push opposing marbles off the edge of the board. The rules can be mastered in a minute or two, and the flow of the game is fast-paced. |
| Pointillism | Nifty little camera demo that makes live capture look like pointillism. |
| Poll Builder | Poll Builder allows you to create your own poll, collect votes, examine the results and think about what they mean. Users can write original opinion poll questions and answer choices, then invite friends to vote in their poll via the mesh. Part of the MaMaMedia Creative Center package. |
| Power activity | An Activity for laptop charging, geared towards people who are using/developing off-grid power sources (especially human-powered ones). |
| Produce Puzzle | The object of the game is to solve a system of equations with unknowns represented by fruits. |
| Projects/Typing Turtle | typing tutor |
| Push to Talk | The concept is to create a voice over IP "Push To Talk" radio. This way anyone on the mesh can push a button, and everyone else running the activity can hear them. |
| Read | A document reader. |
| Record | Record is the basic rich-media capture activity for the laptop. It lets you capture still images, video, and/or audio. It has a simple interface and works in both laptop and ebook mode. An interface for sharing pictures among multi XOs during a picture-taking session is a hallmark of the Record activity. |
| Report | The Report activity is designed for students to learn and actively participate in journalism. |
| Reversi | Reversi (aka. Othello) is a simple strategy board game. |
| RoadMap | RoadMap is a GPS-enabled street navigation program. |
| Ruler | This is a very simple Activity which provides non-interactive screen images of a ruler, cm and mm grids, and a cm checker board. |
| Sample activity | Sample activity test shor thsort short short |
| Schoolsplay | Schoolsplay is a collection of small arithmetic and reading/writing activities that are suitable to be used in classrooms and also provides extensive data collecting stored in a (remote) SQL based database and has a multiuser environment with optional passwords. |
| Scratch | TODO! An easy-to-learn, multimedia programming language in which you snap together colorful command blocks |
| Semantic MediaWiki test | Here we go |
| SimCity | SimCity<small><sup>TM</sup></small> is one of the oldest and grandest of Maxis games. A Linux port by Don Hopkins is being released by Electronic Arts under the GPL for distribution on the XO. (See Don Hopkins' blog for more background.) |
| SimpleRPG | A simple game intended to be used as a tutorial on building a client-server RPG-style game with Pygame. |
| Slider Puzzle | Slider Puzzle is a classic logic game that challenges a player to slide tiles around to form a picture or pattern. This digital version provides a fun context for learners to explore basic functions of the XO, learn problem solving skills, and develop creative projects that reflect understanding of a topic they are studying. Part of the MaMaMedia Creative Center package |
| SocialCalc | A Javascript-based spreadsheet. |
| Software projects | The Free From Malaria game tells the story of Paul, a boy who lives in a Malaria endemic country. Paul learns how mosquitoes are responsible for spreading the Plasmodium parasite which causes Malaria. He also learns how to recognise the symptoms it causes and to seek medical help if someone thinks they have the disease. |
| Sonata (activity) | The Sonata activity combines a musicpd (mpd) daemon and the Sonata pygtk frontend in one bundle. To the user the activity appears to be a basic mp3/ogg/flac player. |
| Space Tag | Space Tag is a fast paced, action packed, playground thriller that's out of this world. Immerse yourself and a few of your buddies (after all, sharing is important) in an overhead pseudo 3D world filled with fuzzy physics. Enjoy virtual dimensional awareness, hiding places, playgrounds, skinned knees, and noogies. |
| Speak | Speak is a talking face for the XO laptop. Anything you type will be spoken aloud using the XO's speech synthesizer, espeak. You can adjust the accent, rate and pitch of the voice as well as the shape of the eyes and mouth. This is a great way to experiment with the speech synthesizer, learn to type or just have fun making a funny face for your XO. |
| SpeakSign | Finger spell American Sign Language for teaching and learning minimal sign language. |
| Spray Play | Spray Play is a Crossfire-like game in which players shoot objects in the middle of the playing area with small pellets to push it into their opponent's side. |
| StarChart | Whole Sky Star Chart Activity |
| Stopwatch | This activity provides multiple stopwatches to time events with. |
| Story Builder | Story Builder is a graphical story constructor tool. Drag & drop a variety of characters (stamps) into a background, and create an imaginative scene. Simple word-processing capability is included to encourage and facilitate free-form creative writing and the saving of original stories. Part of the MaMaMedia Creative Center package. |
| SunriseActivity | Sunrise Predictor Activity |
| Sword read | A reader for Biblical and other text modules configured for the Sword project. Allows for easy browsing of the Bible by reference. |
| TalknType | This will eventually be an Activity based on the 1970s toy, Speak&Spell. |
| TamTam | TamTam is a suite of four music and sound related activities for the XO. TamTam is written in python with some C functions for speed-critical services. The audio engine for TamTam is Csound. |
| Terminal | The Terminal activity provides a simple interactive shell prompt. |
| Turtle Art | Turtle Art is an activity with a Logo-inspired graphical "turtle" that draws colorful art based on snap-together visual programming elements. |
| Turtle Art with Sensors | A version of Turtle Art that supports sensor input |
| Typing Turtle | A typing tutor game. |
| WikiBrowse | Wikibrowse is a self-contained wiki server. |
| WikiBrowse/lang-es | Wikibrowse is a self-contained wiki server. |
| Write | TODO! the basic text editing application on the laptops. |
| X2o (activity) | A puzzle solving and critical thinking game similar to the Incredible Machine. |
| XOlympics | A sports competition for the XO. |
| XaoS | an interactive fractal zoomer that allows the user to continuously to zoom in or out of a fractal in a fluid, continuous motion. |
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