October 22, 2016 Facebook phishing app A few “apps” in Facebook’s ecosystem appear to have fallen under the radar of its security checks. I was invited to verify my account…
September 25, 2016 Say hello to Wryte, an open source dictation app I found this great little open source dictation app Wryte while checking to see if Simon had progressed much recently. The project appears to…
August 31, 2016 Hail Caesar salad! I must commend the SO for creating what must be the best Caesar salad in history. I don’t often order it when eating out…
July 31, 2016 New house, new beginning We finally moved into our new house we have been building for the past 18 months. As you can imagine it was a bit…
June 30, 2016 It’s good to be back on Chakra I installed Chakra Linux on an old notebook after a few years away from it. I now have Kubuntu, Korora (Fedora) and Chakra systems…
May 30, 2016 Watch those default power saving settings If you’re using a KDE-based Linux distro inside a VirtualBox VM keep an eye on the default energy saving settings as you can get…
April 30, 2016 TV chef Adam Liaw stumbles into an Hoffice On his culinary journey through Scandinavia, Adam Liaw shed some light on the “Hoffice” trend in Sweden where people gather at a house to…
March 31, 2016 More Markdown madness After my previous adventure of Markdown editing with Kate, I took another look around for a cross-platform editor which can provide a similar outcome….
February 28, 2016 How to create an editor account in WordPress If you would like someone to make changes to your WordPress site content without allowing full administration privileges then create an “editor” account for…
January 17, 2016 Messing with Markdown A few forums I’m on – most notably Github – support Markdown so I thought I’d take a look at how i can work…
December 29, 2015 New notebook So I finally get around to purchasing a new notebook as a functional alternative to the one I’ve been relying on for the past…
November 29, 2015 Bridging the desktop-mobile development gap It seems Google’s Chrome browser is making waves in write-once, run on all desktops development environments. Projects like NW.js and Electron (renamed from Atom…
October 31, 2015 AsteroidOS: An open smartwatch platform Last week I came across an interesting open source project in AsteriodOS. It’s a free and open-source smartwatch platform based on OpenEmbedded, libhybris and…
September 30, 2015 The IoT value chain I had a chat with a journalist this morning about IoT and the opportunities for IT service providers. The whole concept of the “Internet…
August 31, 2015 The film every project manager should watch, over and over and over… Faced with the irrepressible Imperial Japanese Army, to which his own doom appears certain, and ordered to construct a bridge to aid enemy combatants…
July 26, 2015 KDE announces Plasma Mobile In another development for independent mobile environments, the KDE project has announced Plasma Mobile. Announced during Akademy, KDE’s yearly worldwide conference, the Plasma Mobile…
June 30, 2015 Alternative mobile OS redux A while back I blogged about the possibilities for alternative mobile platforms. Unfortunately the pace of development has been slow since, but the good…
May 31, 2015 WordPress child themes with Child Themify If you want to reduce some of the pain of managing theme changes in WordPress take a look at the Child Themify plugin which…
April 30, 2015 The desktop virtualization dearth I can’t believe how few options there are for desktop virtualisation (or virtualization) on Windows. I’m using VirtualBox to host Linux on Windows but…
March 29, 2015 TablePress for easy tables in WordPress Looking to add GUI-editable tables to your WordPress site? Take a look at TablePress. It supports a number of JavaScript controls and can even…