#“Any opinions on 15.4" laptops?” Youngfella's confirmation money is burning a hole in his pocket. After a short-lived diversion towards getting a Tablet, he is now back in the market for a laptop. He currently uses my ancient Acer Aspire with a lines of dead pixels running down the middle of the screen and buttons missing from the keyboard. Given that his main activity is editing his card-trick videos, Netbooks were immediately cast aside. »
#“Avoid @wittertainment loss, install doubleTwist on Android” via doubletwist.com I've been pretty lucky with the SD card in my HTC Desire. Despite being hammered constantly due to all apps being installed on an EXT3 partition, the main FAT32 partition has never lost any data. Until today. The whole thing went bang and everything disappeared (the EXT3 partition was fine). For most of my stuff it's no big deal, I sync it all out to the cloud. »
#“Alienate Yourself” App Screenshots via market.android.com The Androidify App kept some of our kids quiet in a church for a confirmation earlier in the week. I think this could have a similar benefit. »
#“Check out those sexy pin pegs” And the Vibram FiveFingers too :-) Full opinion post coming Wednesday. Initial opinion: I'm a fanatic after an hour. It's like I have a new left leg. »
#“Brace yourself Belfast. Here We Come.” Finalist in Best Tech Blog in The Irish Blog Awards.Fuck Yeah! See y'all there. »
#“Oscar’s First Android Game via App Inventor” I have to say I'd dead proud of young Oscar. Seven hours ago he'd never seen a line of code. Now he has finished his first from-scratch game. He calls it "The Reaction Game" and it involves tapping buttons as fast as possible in 60 seconds. We've had some choice quotes from him today: I want to build a game like all those stupid ones people play on Facebook It's still Beta. »
#“Google AppInventor for Android is a Massive Hit with 11 y/o Son” When Google AppInventor launched I was really excited and signed up for the pre-release immediately. The idea of a drag n drop application creator for Android that was kid-friendly sounded fantastic. Of course all I did was start it up and play for 10 minutes before forgetting about it and ADHDing over to the next cool thing. Then a few months back I came up with an idea for an Android App which would pull info from a specific RSS feed and do something useful with it. »
#“Monitoring EC2 Servers with Zabbix” Amazon Cloudfront is great for monitoring EC2 servers but it can only do external monitoring so it cannot see things like memory being exhausted etc. I tried using Cacti but it was a nightmare to configure with plugins. Nagios always looks like it'd take weeks to sort out. A bit of Googling found Zabbix and people seem to like it. Install was a doddle but configuring can be a pain unless you just copy the demo settings. »
#“Oi Posterous, fix this please. What is a Liquid Error?” I haven't changed that post since it went up so the problem is on the Posterous side. »
#“ASCII Star Wars via Telnet” In my first job in S3, I was handed a VT102 terminal as my main "computer". Having done my Masters on PCs and HP Unix boxes, I nearly cried. I still have the scars. @sos100 has just tweeted something that makes up for all those scars. Star Wars done in animated ASCII Art by telnetting to towel.blinkenlights.nl Utter utter genius.If you don't know how to Telnet, well I'm sure you'll enjoy your iPad2. »