#“Just in The Nick of Time - Our School’s Own App Inventor Setup” Now to kick the tyres a bit more and make sure all is ok. One big worry is that 15 pairs of kids simultaneously using it will boot us out of the free tier and into the pay tier. »
#“Time for an Irish Technology Industry Lobby?” The concern that many people have over the upcoming legislation aroundthe Charleton judgementwent into high gear when it was announced recently that The Data Protection Commissionhad instructed Eircomto halt its three strikes policy against music piracy. This fear was compounded by the relevant Junior Minister being shockingly dismissive and flippant towards anyone who expressed concern on Twitter. Finally, in the same week, initialACTAlegislation was weaseled through the EU Council byhiding it in an Agricultural & Fisheries session! »
#“HP ePrint App for iPad - Why HP was right to exit Tablet Biz” App Store - HP ePrint Home & Biz. I helped my Dad setup printing from his iPad to his HP wireless printer over the Christmas. The easiest way is just to email the private address of the printer using the HP ePrint service. But I spotted that they have an iPad App too and I installed it. »
#“Mini-Review of Google App Inventor Beginner’s Guide by Ralph Roberts” The nice people in Packt Publishing sent me a free review copy ofGoogle App Inventor Beginner's Guide by Ralph Roberts recently. As someone who adores App Inventor, I was thrilled to see the book being published. I'll do a full review later as I haven'tfinishedit yet but I wanted to get some initial thoughts out there as I think the book is worth buying. »
#“Just had a Horrible Thought. Could I move from Posterous to Google+?” I've always loved the easiness of Posterous but it still has enormous problems with comments and Social Logins and I'm getting really tired of it. The lack of an official Export feature (yes I know about the API) always worries me too. My default would be to switch to good old self-hosted WordPress plus something like Amplify for sharing interesting pages as posts. »
#“The Death of Boxee” Boxee finally told us what we all knew was coming, they are dropping support for PC/Mac/Linux. And with that, we now know they are done. I predict they will either shut up shop before this time next year or be sold for chump change by their VCs. Rumours that they are already hawking themselves around to CE companies sound reasonable. Boxee got all of its buzz and online promotion from early adopters like me who loved their fork of the XBMC code-base. »
#“The Technical Magic of Playing a Song in Our Car in 2011” In the olden days (as my kids call the 90s), we turned on the radio in the car and played music or stuck a tape in a tape deck. In recent years we'd plug a phone, iPod or USB stick into a car stereo. Now we are messing with streaming more. It's still as patchy as hell in Ireland with all the mobile blackspots on our motorways but we had a reasonable amount of success yesterday doing the M8-M7-M3 run. »
#“This is Facebook’s Idea of Chronological” Oh I just give up. »
#“LEGO - Bring Back Beautiful” via buzzfeed.com Lego went down a terrible bolt-hole with all the boy-movie-centric crap. Good for biz in the short term but leaves behind 50% of the potential target market. Our 8 y/o daughter loves Lego, but it's the normal building blocks she likes so she can make architectural stuff (like the wonderful Ad above), not all that character-driven single-use rubbish. I'd love to see kits for London Eye, Empire State, Golden Gate, Olympics 2012 etc that would appeal to boys and girls. »
#“Don’t Forget to Download Your App Inventor Projects - Shutdown on Dec 31st” If you ever did anything on GoogleApp Inventor, you have 9 days to download your code.I had to log in 30 times to download all the projects of the kids in our school (30 teams of 2). Next step is to setup a private instance of App Inventor on App Engine and EC2 in lieu of MIT being ready. »