Demo notes/608

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These notes from 2007 are generally applicable to all builds between 608 and 623. (Please also refer to OLPC Ship.1 Software Release Notes and Demo notes/542.)

A brief tour of the laptop

three friends (A, B, and C) using the laptop
A chooses an orange color scheme.	B chooses a blue color scheme.	C chooses a yellow and purple color scheme.
A adds friend C from the mesh view	B adds friend C from the mesh view	C's friends view (after having added friends A and B)
friend C starts a chat
C starts a chat from the task bar
C invites A to chat from the friends view	A receives an invitation to chat on the task bar
C invites B to chat from the friends view	B receives an invitation to chat on the task bar
Everyone is here
Hello	Hello	Hello
friend A starts a record session
A launches the camera activity
After it starts, invitations are sent to B and C	B's invitation	C's invitation
Sharing photos
friend B starts a write session
B in the write activity
A is invited to edit	A chimes in	C chimes in too
friend B starts a shared browse session
B launches the browse activity and shares it on the mesh	A joins the browsing session from the mesh view	C also joins the browsing session from the mesh view
sharing bookmarks
friend A downloads a book
A downloads a PDF from the web	the PDF appears on the clipboard	launching from the clipboard
the read activity starting up	landscape mode	portrait mode
page tab	zoom tab
sharing a book on the mesh
doing some arithmetic
everyone defines variables
playing music
the Journal
the Journal logs all of the action
downloading a new activity
browse the web for .xo files	selecting implode	download implode by clicking on the .xo file
the downloaded activity appears in the Journal	"resuming" launches the activity	after downloading, it appears on the task bar
playing implode	there are lots of activities to try, for example, these ones from GCompris	sudoku.activity.xo downloaded from the GCompris page
writing software
graphics written in Turtle Art	ASCII animation written in Pippy the Python editor	Geometry written in the Dr. Geo modulo within Etoys