Viewing a PDF File on a USB Disk with the XO Laptop

Plug the flash drive in.

From the welcome screen, click the Journal icon to the bottom of the XO icon in the middle.

Now, in the new screen, at the botom left, you see the journal icon again, and to the right of that, you see a flash drive icon. Hover on that.

You will see a menu pop up. The lone option is "Unmount" and the name of the menu is the name of the media. In my case, it happens to be "USB DISK".

Click the icon.

This brings up a new view where all the files are listed. The look is really slick and simple.

You can click the icon corresponding to your file. Of course, extensions are not available - so the type of the file is hidden - which actually is the way things really should be.

This brings up a preview screen. Then, at teh top right, you will see the solid-rect-in-circle button that you can hover on to generate a menu opton to read the file.

Simple - in about 20 steps, you can admire your PDF file:)

Be warned, the OS seems pretty bug ridden, so even after you take out your flesh drive, if you didn't "unmount" it, Journal still thinks it exists and lets you try and open the files it's seen before - so those new Apps that start up will remain in the "Starting..." mode and can't even be shut down. Yuck.