#“Cent The Pete running on Raspberry Pi” A Centipede clone written by me in Z80 Assembler in 1985. Now running on the Fuse ZX Spectrum emulator on the Speccy’s spiritual successor, the Raspberry Pi. Full unboxing video coming later tonight once it uploads to YouTube. »
#“If the internet is remembered for one thing in 2012, let it be Nail Clippers with 10X Magnifier” Now that you know they exist, you have to buy them, don’t you? I did. »
#“Lunchtime review of Eken T02 7" Android Tablet for \u008088” This quick n dirty video covers most of it, but in summary: Pros: It's 88, in total, including EMS shipping Android ICS Capacitive Screen Full Android Market HDMI/USB/SDCard 1080p video Strong GPU for all games It's 88, in total, including EMS shipping It's 88, in total, including EMS shipping Cons: Screen is only 800x480 Touch can be unresponsive at times CPU may struggle on heavy-duty games Some current strangeness with Android Market means apps incorrectly absent Upgrading OS a bit fiddly No Bluetooth I got mine on Pandawill. »
#“First two trivial parts of getting App Inventor working on Raspberry Pi done” I’ve been playing a small bit with the Raspberry Pi VM on VMware to see what’s possible and what isn’t. One thing I am eager to try when it arrives on the week of May 14th (YAY!), is to get App Inventor working on it. There are three basic user parts to App Inventor. The browser-based Designer, the Java-based Blocks Editor and the Phone Emulator (if you don’t have a phone). »
#“Klouchebag score for @conoro: 36, or ‘a bit of a prat’” A far superior alternative to Klout - Klouchebag.com hat-tip to Chris Byrne. »
#“Happy 30th Birthday ZX Spectrum - Here’s mine, still in action” Of course I write too much about the ZX Spectrum. Heck look at the header image. But when a tiny little computer has such an impact on your life, it deserves your attention, even 30 years later. I hope all of you who built the first iPhone Apps have held on to your first device and do the same in 25 years time. »
#“Thank you Google - You’ve just made my year” My tribute to the Speccy on its 30th birthday coming later today :-) »
#“Finally MHL to TV and Bluetooth to Wiimote on HTC Sensation” Yes I know it’s a stupid thing to want to do but dammit, if it’s technically possible, we should at least try. One of the most annoying things about the HTC Sensation is how HTC has hamstrung it with a brain-dead Bluetooth stack instead of the one provided by the chipset provider. This means it cannot do the HID profile to support keyboards, mice and Wiimotes. »
#“Facebook kicks Geni’s butt for real family histories” A few years back, quite a few of us put effort into building our family tree on Geni. For a while I was a fan. Then someone connected two big trees via marriage and it has been a disaster ofirrelevant birthday notifications about people I have never heard of since. Also, the constant upsells mean I haven’t logged in for a very long time except to check the odd birthday. »
#“Google (and all of us) should revolutionise the interview process using @Sugru” I’ve interviewed many many people myself over the years and only hired two real duds in that time. Mostly I did it with gut rather than asking people to write code on a whiteboard or drilling them on software lifecycle. My aim was to get a sense of “can I work with this person?”, “does it look like they have a creative streak? »