Gadgetory

what's up everyone jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo calm there's been a lot of hype over these upcoming android netbooks but I'm saying why wait I'm going to walk you through how to install android on your Mac and your PC it's actually much easier than you would expect let's go ahead and get started before we do you're going to need a few things a blank DVD you're going to need some sort of virtualization software if you're using a Mac for example parallels desktop software and a DVD Drive and that's about it so you're going to want to go to code google com / p / live / android i'll put a link to this in the sidebars no need to memorize it and we're going to scroll down to where it says user guide then you want to select read me first and I'm going to want to download an iso file so we'll scroll down here you can download these files individually I found it much easier to use an ISO and you're going to want to click this rapidshare link and this will be in the sidebar as well if you've got a premium account and go ahead and click premium user otherwise just go ahead and hit free and hit download and that'll take depending on internet speed 10 20 30 minutes download while you're waiting for that to download if you don't have any sort of virtualization software to run windows on your mac i recommend heading over to parallels com and given that a download leave a free trial you can use any really virtualization software you can use VMware parallels whatever you want to use not going to problem it's all going to work so next you're gonna want to do is put in a DVD to your computer and after you've downloaded your ISO file you can have a file right here that says live Android version 02 is oh so you're going to want to go to your Applications folder gonna want to hit utilities scroll down to disk utility and we're going to burn that ISO image onto a disk because what we're going to do is actually run Android off of a DVD so no need to do a boot there's no risk to your computer if you don't like what you're doing eject the DVD no harm no foul so we're going to go to file open disk image and give it just a moment it will launch a sort of Finder window there it is so I hit the live Android iso hit open I've already done it so not good head open and you'll have a live Android ISO image right there you want to hit burn and let your disc burn away all right now you've got your disc burnt it's time to go ahead and start running android so i should also mention that in addition to having a virtualization software that just allows you to run windows you're going to need a full legitimate copy of windows XP vista or seven if you want to see how to download windows 7 and get a free copy to install using the virtualization software i'll put a link to that in the sidebar i did a tutorial of how to get windows seven for free and install it on your mac so you're going to want to go ahead and fire up parallels i've already got mine running here and here it is windows on a mac I've got my start menu over there if you've never seen this before so now what you're going to want to do since we're going to be running this off of a DVD is to enable the DVD Drive in parallels so I'll go up to your top you want hit devices CD DVD ROM one anyone just go to default CD DVD wrong and now it's going to let windows be able to see your DVD Drive so now you're going to want to pop in that DVD that we just burn go ahead and do that right now and I'll do this in real time so you can see how long it will take and what it'll look like for you go ahead and go to my computer and it's loading up and I'll open it up in just a minute you can see the files that are in there there it goes go ahead cancel and open this up and this is just a bunch of files and it's not going to work what you need to do right now is actually restart your computer and if you're using a PC you can just follow these steps from right here you're gonna want to insert your the DVD and simply just restart your computer so i'm gonna go ahead and do that right now and that's all you need to get android running on your computer so let's show you what that looks like go ahead and hit restart restart just as any other computer would windows is now shutting down and I'll show you what the boot up looks like that's actually quite interesting so here we go so you get this sort of scary-looking text that comes across here but don't worry get a live android logo there and let you know you did something right so you get the android boot up logo pretty cool and that's it you are now working with Android L it's telling you've got a little battery but certainly that's not the case you get a sort of a half square or a triangle cursor who can hit ok and I'll just show you that this is working go ahead and hit the menu I can pull down status icons let's go ahead and open up messaging compose a new message start typing let's go back and if you want to go back a menu actually afton if you're on a Mac you need to hit the command key and that'll take you back to the home screen let's open something else i should say browser doesn't work let me show you some of the settings and things seem to actually be moving much quicker now on a second boot let's go to let's say call settings can see all your settings right there we'll go back and there's no easy way to really scroll back things still work a little bit differently go to settings again we'll scroll down let's see what it says for about phone there's some model numbers and baseband information colonel stuff go back one more time take a look at some of the other programs that we have here dev tools which is interesting and things are now running pretty zippy camera I should show you doesn't recognize a camera obviously it keeps asking you for an SD card but certainly I don't have it's not recognizing my built-in webcam on my imac let's try calculator calculator works great you do five plus six equals eleven as it should this is more just a kind of a cool proof of concept then as i mentioned before the web doesn't quite function yet contacts can go ahead and see as it would just on a normal android and then when you guys are all done using android what you're going to want to do is eject your disk and shut down parallel if you're just using a regular windows just eject your disc and restart windows as you normally would you'll never know yet Android there if you're using parallels first thing you want to do is get rid of the mouse from this window so you want to hit alt and control to release the mouse go ahead and do that then you want to go to actions and you want to go and hit stop and that will stop the windows from running that you can go ahead and just quit parallels go back in your mac side and eject the disk and next time you boot in two parallels you will be just in your regular windows environment and then guys hope you enjoyed this really short tutorial and easy tutorial on how to install android 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