Joli on the MiniJolicloud on the Dell Mini

Archos 9 is a 9″ tablet that is using an Atom z510 & Intel GMA 500 graphics (more specs here).  But this week Netbook News found it dual booting with Jolicloud:

Check out the Video!

Jolicloud has issued a software update that will allow you to use your keyboard to navigate through the pages of your HTML 5 launcher.

When you are in your launcher and want to move to the next page:

Ctrl + Left   (arrow)
or
Ctrl + Right  (arrow)

To select an App to run, just hit Enter

Just that easy… log into your Jolicloud account, get the updates, restart and she’s all yours!

Just as some other social networking sites allow you to rank users by “friends” Jolicloud allows you to rank users by “Followers”

This new feature allows you to see the top 30 users – based on number of followers (3 pages of 10 users on each page). Sadly, I just barely didn’t make the list .

Please add Jeff from JoliOnMini.com or look me up in the directory: JoliOnMini

Follow along with me & others as we find out what apps are popular – you might just find something you’ll like!

Going to be near a computer, but not your netbook?   Want to still use Jolicloud?   There is a way to get your Jolicloud experience when you’re not with your own netbook.

Get a 1GB+ USB jump drive, and put the Jolicloud 1.0 iso on it.

Boot off of the jump drive on your computer at select the”Try Jolicloud without making changes to your computer” option.

Once Jolicloud has booted, you can still log into your My Jolicloud account.

I recently used this and it was fantastic!   You can use this with Mac, Windows, a different Linux, any PC.  On a hackintosh I didn’t have the divx codec installed and knew Jolicloud would be able to play it right out of the box.  I was unable to get into my Private folder, but the rest of the drive worked great.

Any other unique ways you use Jolicloud?

Check out our new Jolicloud 1.0 Install Guide!

All the info from begining your install until your first app is open.

I’ve been using Jolicloud 1.0 for quite some time now, and every day I find more useful than the last.

Tariq has just welcomed everyone to upgrade to 1.0. All users will now have the links available to upgrade, and the fresh install images & iso’s will be available shortly.

Congratulations to all, this is a huge milestone for Jolicloud! This also gives everyone the access to the most unique netbook experience arround.

Read the official post on the Jolicloud Blog.

I think I’ve fixed the update problem that I was having from before. Maybe because I was so early on the Jolicloud 1.0 releases, I must have got a beta version of Chrome that was preventing my Update-Manager from properly completing updates.

To remedy this, I opened up a terminal and used:
sudo dpkg --configure -a

Upon a restart, I was able to run the Updates from the main launcher screen.

Hopefully you didn’t have any problems with your Update-Manager, but if you did, that’s how you fix it!

Update 1:
Yep, that worked on many levels. Programs are saving their install points & I’m not having to install on every restart/log-in. The only other item is adding Legacy Apps to the HTML5 Launcher, and I’m set .

Sorry for the super delayed response in writing this, I had some family matters to attend to and they have been taking up much time.   But, without any more of a delay, here are my opening round thoughts of Jolicloud 1.0

Good:

• I obviously love the HTML5 menu system.   I enjoyed the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, but that was 3+ versions of Ubuntu ago, it’s a bit dated and needed work – the new launcher is leaps & bounds above.
• The synchronization across netbooks.   I have a virtual machine on a work computer, and being able to keep the two accounts synced is great.
• I enjoy all the new graphics & menus surrounding your social networking.
• The profile information is much clearer & easier to use than ever.
• Adding applications, organizing, & launching are a joy to use.   They really did some nice work with the layouts.

Not so good:

• Every time I log in, I have to re-sync all 53 applications that I have.   I have a virtual machine on a work computer and maybe that is why it wants to synchronize every time, but I have to download and install Gimp every time I sign in.
• The updates on my account just don’t update.    Every time I log in, I have to sync my apps, and apply 30+ updates that never take.  If I launch the Jolicloud Updates app from before, nothing ever appears.   I don’t want to try Ubuntu’s update-manager, as it crashed a VM of Jolicloud a few months prior that I don’t want to try yet.  Is there another update .deb that I can download to get these to update?
• Is there a way to move Legacy Apps into the Launcher? Am I missing this?

There’s my first list.  Does anyone else have anything to add to the Good & Not So Good?   Jolicloud has been great with offering updates to issues/concerns that users have with the funcionality, so any constructive criticism will not fall on deaf ears.

Good luck to all & hope to see many updates in the future!

Here is the screen that I woke up to this morning on Jolicloud:

Users will begin to see this throughout the next few days to begin their upgrades.

Not much time to talk now, I’m ready to upgrade!