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.
Full Story »Quick Review: Laser Cut Acrylic Case for the Raspberry Pi
I love my Raspberry Pi but like I said in my first review the board feels a little vulnerable and so when I saw a case design at the Blackpool Linux User Group I had to get one. The case is made in Telford here in the UK by the Shropshire Linux User Group and [...]
Simple.TV suspending sales of their Windows Media Center addin
A couple of years ago I started using Simple.tv a service for Media Center that would automatically convert recorded TV shows to a format I could use on other devices like the iPad, it worked very well but I haven’t used it for some time. Today I got an email from them explaining that they [...]
Microsoft explain the new boot process in Windows 8
In the latest post on the Building Windows 8 Blog Microsoft have talked about the fast boot process in Windows 8 and with the use of UEFI firmware you don’t have to desperately press F8 to try and get in to the boot loader. It looks like things like booting from a USB stick are [...]
First impressions of the Android 4.0 on the Samsung Galaxy Note
Samsung promised Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) for the Galaxy Note and it looks like it’s finally here (at least for UK owners). I had given up checking for the update each day but today my phone prompted me to download the 318mb download. Once downloaded the Note rebooted, installed the update and after about [...]
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Waterstones to sell Amazon’s Kindle readers, scraps plans for its own reader
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 [...]
Full Story »Microsoft talk about Windows 8 UI changes, no more Aero
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 The transparent Aero theme has gone and has been replaced by a squared off while look.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 [...]
Full Story »Video: Testing video formats on the Raspberry Pi (updated)
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 [...]
Full Story »Raspbmc – XBMC for Raspberry Pi in beta
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 [...]
Full Story »Review: Hauppauge myTV2go
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 [...]
Full Story »OpenELEC 2.0 Beta 4 released
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 [...]
Full Story »Quick Tip: Solving mysterious disk space lost
I was contacted the other day by a friend who had mysteriously lost over 400GB of disk space on his Windows Machine’s C drive. He seemed to be losing about 30gb a week. Most odd. I checked the files sizes on the disk and he was only using about 90GB of the 500GB space but [...]
Full Story »Camera module coming for the Raspberry Pi
There is a lot of interest in the Raspberry Pi at the moment and it looks like we are going to see a camera module for the Pi soon. On the Raspberry Pi blog they have details of a prototype camera module that plugs into the Raspberry Pi board. It all adds to a great [...]
Full Story »My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 2.11 PR4 released and My Movies Collection Manager updated.
As well as the Windows Media Center version of My Movies being updated the Windows Home Server 2011 edition and My Movies Collection Manger have been updated as well. Details from MyMovies.dk: My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 2.11 Pre Release 4 Added: Meta-data storage for MediaBrowser (Requires 500 points).Added: Option to specify target [...]
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