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PowerGlove Project – The Famicom Connector
Posted on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 | No CommentsSo, I bought a PAX PowerGlove - so good it's bad - with a view to connecting it to my PC for use as a neato peripheral. The PAX PowerGlove, hailing from Japan and predating the Mattel-manufactured US release, comes with a DB-15 Famicom ... -
The cost of free: WordPress SEO malware
Posted on Friday, December 3, 2010 | 5 CommentsIf you Google my name at the moment, you'll find some interesting results - and if you've hit this page as a result of looking for 'webcam sex,' you're going to be disappointed. I recently installed a new theme on the site - Magzimus - ... -
Dyno-Rod Complaint
Posted on Friday, October 15, 2010 | 14 CommentsA quick post containing photographic evidence of the state that Dyno-Rod left my house after a failed attempt to unblock my drains. I wouldn't have put them in public view, except for the fact that Dyno-Rod's customer services e-mail has a size limit that ... -
Arduino Hacking: Getting Started
Posted on Thursday, September 2, 2010 | No CommentsJust a brief post to alert RSS subscribers that my how-to Arduino article is now live over on bit-tech.net. Anyone who has ever hacked around in their PC will have been hit with an urge to take their tinkering to the next level and ... -
Android Rooting: Pre-Installing Apps
Posted on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 | 1 CommentRooting your Android smartphone can offer some pretty amazing benefits, from simple things like the ability to take screenshots to the option to use your handset as a Wi-Fi hotspot. Perhaps the most impressive, however, is the option to change the apps ... -
aRSSduino
Posted on Monday, August 30, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe aRSSduino is a simple project for the Arduino microcontroller, designed to display RSS feed entries on a 16x2 LCD. It's still in the early stages, with the following outstanding: To Do: Support for larger LCDs To Improve: Better UTF-8 character handling To Do: Multiple RSS feed ... -
Free e-books for your Kindle
Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 | No CommentsI've written an - in my not-so-humble opinion - interesting post on the cost of e-books for the recently-released Amazon Kindle and other eReader devices, which I've published over on my Freelance Site. This week culminates in the launch of Amazon’s latest Kindle eReader,which means ... -
Norway
Posted on Monday, August 9, 2010 | 1 CommentPhotos from my recent trip to Norway. -
Toshiba launches dual-screen notebook
Posted on Monday, June 21, 2010 | No CommentsToshiba has confirmed its plans to offer a dual-screen notebook similar to Microsoft's Courier concept, to be added to its Libretto ultra-mobile range. The Toshiba Libretto W100 was launched as part of the company's 25th anniversary celebrations - its first laptop, the Toshiba T1100 was ... -
Fujitsu and Shinoda demo curved displays
Posted on Monday, May 17, 2010 | No CommentsFujitsu's display division has teamed up with Shinoda Plasma to create impressive curved displays which the companies believe could be used to turn building support pillars into information boards without taking up any extra floorspace. Demonstrated over on Tech-On, the displays ...