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#“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. »

#“Google Cloud Picker? New?” I just tried inserting an image in a Google Doc and got this new dialog. Interesting! Of course it didn't bloody work. When I tried to Sign-in, it said "The feature you requested is currently unavailable. Please try again later.". I assume due to the usual Google Apps Accounts vs Normal Google Accounts messing that seems to have got worse rather than better since they " »

#“Xbox 360 Wireless on the cheap” Our eldest was thrilled to be able to buy an old Xbox 360 from his cousin for 40. It's a pretty impressive piece of kit and a big upgrade over the old-skule Xboxen we use as XBMC media players. I still prefer the Wii tho :-) Surprisingly it comes with a LAN connector rather than Wifi. The official Wifi adapter is 43 on Amazon.co.uk. i. »