As we are featuring the Raspberry Pi at the user group meet up I have been reaching out to some other tech communities and on Saturday I visited the Blackpool Linux user group. They meet each Saturday 10 till 12 and they are a great bunch of guys that made me feel very welcome. With [...]
The energyEGGTM is a home automation/power saving device that does one job and does it very well. The job the energyEGGTM does is to turn of a socket or number of sockets in a room if that room is empty. It does this using a combination of an Egg shaped PIR and one or more [...]
Microsoft are continuing to improve the Kinect for Windows SDK with version 1.5 being released today. The update includes a new seated skeletal tracking system so developers can track a seated users as in near mode as well as the standard mode. The SDK has been split into the core SDK and a developer toolkit [...]
Skype have issued a minor update to the iOS version of Skype. Version 4.0.1325 has stability fixes and a sign on fix, the download is from iTunes. What’s New in Version 4.0.1325 – Improved stability.- Fix for sign in error.
As we are featuring the Raspberry Pi at the user group meet up I have been reaching out to some other tech communities and on Saturday I visited the Blackpool Linux user group. They meet each Saturday 10 till 12 and they are a great bunch of guys that made me feel very welcome. With [...]
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The energyEGGTM is a home automation/power saving device that does one job and does it very well. The job the energyEGGTM does is to turn of a socket or number of sockets in a room if that room is empty. It does this using a combination of an Egg shaped PIR and one or more [...]
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Microsoft are continuing to improve the Kinect for Windows SDK with version 1.5 being released today. The update includes a new seated skeletal tracking system so developers can track a seated users as in near mode as well as the standard mode. The SDK has been split into the core SDK and a developer toolkit [...]
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Skype have issued a minor update to the iOS version of Skype. Version 4.0.1325 has stability fixes and a sign on fix, the download is from iTunes. What’s New in Version 4.0.1325 – Improved stability.- Fix for sign in error.
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Waterstones are to sell Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader in it’s refurbished stores. At first glance it seems a bit of a strange move as Amazon seem to be one of the companies helping kill sales of books at Waterstones but with it’s refurbished stores Waterstones are dedicating areas for ebooks and will have free wifi [...]
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On Friday Microsoft in another very long post on the Building Windows 8 blog talked about the history of the Windows desktop and changes coming to Windows 8. The transparent Aero theme has gone and has been replaced by a squared off while look. In the post I noticed that they say the Vista theme [...]
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I have a had a lot of questions about supported video formats on the Raspberry Pi so I thought I would try some and see what works and what doesn’t work. The little board could make a great media extender if it will play the required video formats. Using the Debian install for the Pi [...]
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There is now another version of XBMC for you to try with your Raspberry Pi. Raspbmc is a XBMC project designed for the Pi and today it’s gone in to beta. As with the other projects you download an image and then use an image tool to copy it over to an SD card. I [...]
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The myTV2go is a wireless device from Hauppauge which enables you to watch telly on the move using your iPad, iPhone, Mac, or Windows PC. I carried out the the test in a simple way by downloading the free app to the iPad. This is powered by Fuugo which will be familiar if you have [...]
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Since getting the Raspberry Pi I have been doing a lot of work with OpenELEC an embedded Linux build of XBMC and today they have released beta 4 of version 2. The new build has fixes for the Eden version of XBMC and adds support for WinTV amongst other fixes. I am not sure if [...]
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