I’m making this post in the hope to reduce the doubts or understand the way how VMware Player works as a lot of people have their first hand experience trying out the new Google Chrome OS available for download as a virtual machine image.
This post is essential for undertanding how to create a Virutal Machine in VMware Player while the my next post will deal on how to run the Chrome Virtual Image using VMware Player 3.0 in particular.
So just follow the step by step process and you’ll end up with your virtual machine up and running! I’ve considered that you’ve already Downloaded the VMware Player and installed it on your system. If you’ve not done it yet, download WMware now (Needs registration but don’t worry it’s free!!)
Step 1:
Open VMware and the first “Welcome to VMware Player” window will pop up. Since this post is about “Creating a Virtual Machine”, let’s not talk about the other options on the list.
Directly click on the “Create a New Virtual Machine” on the top, highlighted with yellow and red arrow on the image.
Although it’s been around an year since the concept phone emerges out of the human head, it seems it will take a bit of time to find it on our hands!! Self cleaning, energy harvesting, flexibility, wearability etc. are some of the attractions we have with Morph.
As yet, some of you might have been aware of the Nokia Concept phone but if you’ve not, I’m glad to share it here. The concept has been developed in collaboration with Nokia Research Center and Cambridge Nanoscience Center.
Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices. Morph can sense its environment, is energy harvesting and self cleaning!!
With the launch of the new Orkut, there’s been a lot of expectation from the orkut lovers considering the ongoing competition between the two gaint social networking sites, Orkut and Facebook. Being among one of the few users who got the priviledge to use the new orkut in it’s early phase, I’ve come across numerous flows, or simply un-expected structural non user friendly systems and here, as a viewpoint from a User Experience Designer, I’m giving certain things that needs to be revamp at the earliest.
1) Commenting System
The very first thing that I’m going to talk about is the Fb style commenting system which is just introduced newly with the New version of orkut.
As a web developer, you need to understand basic knowledges on html, xhtml and css to begin creating a page of your own. Web-articles.info carries a whole lot of articles on html, xhtml and css which are among the best articles for someone learning this scripting languages.
The site carries numerous articles where some of them explains basic steps on many frequently use methods or “how to do it” in plain simple way. Whether you are a beginner or an expert looking for some understanding of how a certain thing is achieved using html, xhtml or css, html xhtml and css @web articles has a lot to tell you. Going through the articles, you will be able to combine the worlds of html, xhtml and css. Topics on “how to use html flexibly”, “Anatomy of an XHTML Document”, working with Cascading Style Sheets and so on are described in details.
Articles are added regularly and there is a growing numbers of tutorials in the category as well as other categories available on the main home page of the website. The interesting part is that, if you need a daily fresh updated content for your website in any category available, web articles offers free fresh content for your website.
Of all the articles at web articles, the “anatomy of an xhtml document”by albert lichtblau is one cool article. As the articles quotes
The transition from HTML to XHTML will come with a fair number of bumps. While later chapters introduce tools to help you get past those bumps – and figure out where they come from – this chapter examines what’s going to change and demonstrates a few strategies for handling those changes. Along the way, we visit the ghosts of browsers past and explore problems that exist in current browsers. In turn, you discover how prepared and unprepared various tools are for XHTML.
Visual Design and Usability are two factors web developers and web designers need to focus with. The two factors are the two ends of a scale, the more you try to add usability, the visual design can be compromised; the more attractive the website is, the less user friendly it may become. www.articlecity.info has a good article on web visual design and Usability.
Some usability gurus have traditionally expounded that developing a web site should be focussed on the usability, not the outlook. However, as opposing these views, User experience designers and Information architects have argue that, since human have the tendency of an extremely short “attention span”, an attractive Visual design is essential to lure users making them stay on the site for a longer time.
Patrick K’s article on Visual Design and Usability describes the how the two views exist together depsite being the different ends of the scale. A site with a minimalistic visual design is the major design scenario prevailing in the UX design world these days. A website loaded with graphics and animation may be attractive although losing usability functions or taking up more time in loading while a minimalistic website may look dull, however providing the necessary details or information the website is meant for.
For a better improvement in the fusion between usability and visual design, developers/designer has now been using Prototyping tools to create wireframe models of website outlays. This helps in determining the looks of the website in a proper way even before its development.
