Simple way to demonstrate anything on a computer
Buried in the bowels of Windows 7, there lies a really handy application: Problem Steps Recorder. To find this gem, just click the Start button and type ‘psr’. It seems to have originally been intended...
View ArticleLearning…for free!
So there are a whole slew of really great ways to learn things, but not so many of them are free.You can learn yourself by getting a book (€), doing a course specifically on the topic (€€), going to...
View ArticleImproving your Google searches
This will be short and sweet: There are lots of good resources out there to help you improve your search skills. My favourite one has to be this great infographic from HowToGeek (displayed below the...
View ArticleA visual representation of the Internet
Take a look at this pretty amazing map of the internet.The size of the circle represents traffic, similar sites are closer together, and everything is colour coded by country.
View ArticleLearning to code
So a friend of mine recently asked me about learning how to program and I said I’d look into it for him. It turns out that there are loads of great learning resources around these days. CodeAcademy is...
View ArticleOpen-source dataloggers
In general, dataloggers are a nuisance. Given the price of high end hardware like your phone or laptop, I really can’t understand why dataloggers cost so much and have so many limitations. They...
View ArticleWolfram Alpha Facebook Analytics
I pretty much never ever allow an app to access my Facebook data. That’s mostly because the majority just drive me nuts (Farmville, Mafia, or even worse, one of those ‘social reader’ apps). That said,...
View ArticleThe tale of the smoking laptop
With electricity poles as well organised as this, who could’ve guessed there would be a problem with the grid here? Allow me to finally tell you the story of woe that describes why all my blog posts...
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