Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Ninja-fy your Raspberry Pi | Ninja Blocks

Ninja-fy your Raspberry Pi | Ninja Blocks great bit of kit for a Raspberry Pi and Arduino love-in

Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud £8.78 p/m

Photoshop Photography Program : Adobe Creative Cloud I'm still using CS3, but this offer is pretty good really, so might switch. Works out at £105 p/a

Monday, November 18, 2013

Acer Aspire XC-105 Desktop

Acer Aspire XC-105 Desktop, issues with Linux got my Acer Aspire XC-105, but having some issues getting Linux on it, work in progress though.

Motorola Moto G – the best budget smartphone is just £135

Motorola Moto G review – the best budget smartphone is just £135 | Technology | theguardian.com now available in the UK, it seems a great deal at £135, I'd bet it'll be a hit for kids at Christmas with the variety of colours

Size matters: Gizmag's Top 10 tiny homes

Size matters: Gizmag's Top 10 tiny homes good roundup of tiny home concepts

Tuesday, November 05, 2013

The MagPi

The MagPi a good read, and always some great projects

Acer Aspire XC-105

Acer Aspire XC-105 Thinking of updating my HTPC / SVN server.

The old ASRock ion330 is a bit slow, and the AMD A4-5000 Quad Core in this Acer box, plus the good price seems a good option.



PassMark - CPU Mark comparison is...

Intel Atom 330 @ 1.60GHz = 593

AMD A4-5000 APU = 1,917

...but the AMD uses more power.

Bit O Ruff - RST - Toni Smoke - In My Mind (Official Music Video)

Microdata as an extension to Semantic HTML (aka adding cool stuff to search listings)

Microdata as an extension to Semantic HTML (aka adding cool stuff to search listings) a good piece from Ruth on Microdata and Rich Snippets

Monday, November 04, 2013

Playspotter

Playspotter - a great online directory of play places, parks, museums, soft play etc, in Scotland and NI

Cleanweb

#Cleanweb | Helping entrepreneurs make an impact save the environment with via the web