#“iGo Stowaway Keyboard and iPad 2 = Awesome” Wayyyy back in Feb 2008, the iGo Stowaway keyboard was being end-of-lined due to its non-HID compatibility and I managed to snare one for £18 in the UK. It had previously been north of £100. It's one of the best purchases I've ever made. Over the years I have used it with a Nokia N770 tablet, an N95-8GB phone, a HTC Desire, Boxee/XBMC on our TV PC and now, drum-roll, hurrah, it works on the iPad2 too! »
#“Facebook is removing App Profile Pages - This affects a lot of Devs” Today, we are announcing that we will remove all App Profile Pages on February 1st, 2012. Though similar in appearance, the automatically generated App Profile Pages differ in features from traditional Facebook Pages, and over time the inconsistencies between the two, such as different Insights, APIs, and distribution channels, have become more apparent. via developers.facebook.com If you have an App that you add to Pages as a Tab by sending Page Owners to the App's own Profile Page, then you need to change how you do things. »
#“Ireland Finally Gets Its Own Oyster Card - LeapCard” via leapcard.ie I could be crabby and point out we should have had this for a decade, considering it's all CIE. But at least we have it now. Yay! Buying one now. »
#“Microsoft really taking Node.js seriously” We're now on the Microsoft BizSpark program and one thing I want to try out over the next few weeks is getting our Node.js+MongoDB back-end running on Azure. I spotted this yesterday on the Node mailing list and it shows how Microsoft now lists Node after .Net but before Java and PHP! It's now "Tier 1" inside MSFT which is fantastic news. »
#“Running Your Own Private Copy of AppInventor for Your School” I had been getting quite concerned recently about the switchover of AppInventor from Google to MIT. For some reason Google is sticking hard to the Dec 31st shutdown date whilst MIT won't be ready to publicly host until "some time in Q1". This would leave 60 kids I'm teaching in my kids' school in the lurch for potentially a few months. »
#“Yeah, so I got an iPad. Let the Flaming Commence :-)” It's for work, alright? Seriously tho. First impressions: Great for doing demos. Spent all morning doing so. Very good browser Love that smart cover thingy. The Next buttons during initial setup are too small Nice to see you don't need a bloody computer any more to set it up No idea what any of the icons in the email client do. »
#“Wonderful Idea - Free Sugru for awesome education projects” via youtube.com Those brilliant Sugru people have gone and done it again. In their own words: "We know that sugru is a great material for prototyping ideas and testing stuff out so we thought we would set up sugru PROJECTS, its a simple idea where we give second level schools, colleges and universities (anywhere in the world) free sugru to run great projects. »
#“Simple Fix for Major Asus N53SN Laptop Sleep Recovery Problem” The Asus N53SN is proving to be a great purchase. Wodges of CPU power and yet it strangely lasts a decent amount of time on battery. Unlike certain other makes, you can pop the battery out and bring a spare so it's no problem doing lots of hard-core work on the Cork-Dublin train run. However it has had one infuriating problem since I bought it. »
#“Agloves Touchscreen Gloves - Very Nice.” The Agloves people in the US mailed me recently wondering if I'd review their touchscreen gloves. I didn't even have to see them to know that they had come up with a brilliant idea. They popped a free pair in the post to me and I got them earlier in the week. This won't be a long review for the simple reason that they just work, brilliantly. »
#“Ubuntu Announces the Unity Mouse” The perfect partner for the Unity GUI.The future is here, today. »