Myzone
Submitted by Michael Shaver, updated on 10 Jun 2009 - 5 comments
When you start Moblin the first thing you see is myzone. It provides a quick snapshot of your personal activity on your netbook and what’s happening within your internet social life.
Myzone
The myzone is divided into 3 sections: on the left, Recent activities; center, Recent files & websites; and on the right, Recent social network updates.
Visual reference: recent activities, files & sites, and social network updates.
Recent activities provides a snapshot of your Calendar appointments and “to-do’s” from your task list. Beneath your appointments and tasks are shortcuts to your favorite applications.
To populate your Calendar appointments, you enter them into the Calendar application. To create a “To-do,” launch the Task application.
Recent files & websites shows your most recent content-related activity on your netbook, such as pictures you've viewed, or websites you've visited. To open or re-visit any of the items shown in this area simply click it.
Recent social network updates enables you to keep track of your internet social life. It shows your latest friends' feeds from Last.fm and Twitter. More 3rd party services will be incorporated in future releases.
To see how to activate your social network accounts, see Web Services.
Customizing myzone.
Currently, you can change only the background image and choose your favorite applications. Future releases may enable you to customize additional elements.
To change your background, follow these few simple steps:
- Open the applications panel located on the toolbar
- Scroll down and expand the “preferences” category.
Applications panel - Select “Wallpaper and Fonts” to launch the Appearance Preferences application.
- Choose an alternative background (click “add” to select one of your own).
Appearance Preferences Application - Click “close” and return to myzone to view your updated background.
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Comments (5 total)
Yes, Google integration must
Yes, Google integration must work....
Moblin2 works!!!!!!!!
I cannot believe how well Moblin works compared to Kubuntu (Koala) on my MSI Wind U100!
Google Calendar and GMail integration needed!
I love the interface and had it installed on my eeePC 701A and it is really fast! But it's useless to me to have a calendar app that doesn't sync with my Google Calendar. Also full GMail support is a must, otherwise this whole thing is pointless.
I Agree!
Please, I agree here. Gmail and Google calendar have to be the most popular of online e-mail and calendar services. They also have a good deal of feeds and APIs to use. This should absolutely be a no-brainer number one priority sync/integration for My Zone. Less and less people are using e-mail clients on their actual machine...and netbooks???? The entire goal is to create a FAST, low disk usage, "stateless" machine. Everyone knows how much of a disk waste e-mail is so especially users with SSDs, there's simply no use for an e-mail client on the device. My Zone and Moblin in general SCREAMS for Google integration. Among other things like Facebook (though I'd honestly not use that often). I'm kinda curious why last.fm was integrated into Moblin so nicely before things like Google. Sure last.fm is great and all...I'll use Grooveshark or Pandora (I know there's not much integration there if any), but what an absolute waste of development hours to stick last.fm on there. Should have invested the time into Google services. Even if Google is going to take longer, you'd be that much further on something far far more valuable.
Clear myzone Icons...
How do I delete old unneeded url icons???