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Raspberry Pi Satellite TV
My kids got quite into a few of the FreeSat channels whilst on a recent holiday, so I thought that after all the fun I had getting DVB-T to work on my Raspberry Pi I’d have a go at DVB-S. Another cheap receiver off eBay A quick search of ‘USB DVB-S’ led me to this receiver for […]
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Tags: 22f0, 2510, 28.2E, 3344, Astra, dm04, driver, dvb, DVB-S, Eutelsat, frimware, LFE2510, M88RS2000, openelec, Pop Girl, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, satellite, tv, TVHeadEnd, XBMC
Geeks and Guinea Pigs
Anybody who’s talked to me in recent months might be surprised to hear that I recently splashed out for a copy Windows 8, as I’ve not been a great fan of it – particularly the new Metro interface[1]. The £25 upgrade from the release preview I was running seemed like a bargain though, particularly as […]
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Tags: editions, upgrade, windows 7, Windows 8
The wrong sort of radio, redux
Almost a couple of years ago (shortly before taking a role that put me back under the yolk of corporate web filtering) I wrote the wrong sort of radio to describe how ridiculous and counter-productive such things are. It simply doesn’t make much sense to cut off the Internet at the desktop when everybody has it in […]
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Tags: BYOD, censorship, filter, vpn, web
Tablets for Christmas
I remember a Christmas in the late 90s where it seemed like everybody got a mobile phone. This year it’s looking like we’re going to see the tablet equivalent, so I thought I’d do a quick round up of what I’m expecting to see. The home front If I include my in-laws then there will […]
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Tags: amazon, android, Christmas, convertible, Fire, google, HD, iPad, kindle, Microsoft, Nexus 7, Surface, tablet, ultrabook
Moving house
For a few months now I’ve been offering OpenELEC release bundles and SD card images at openelec.thestateofme.com, and more recently I set up resources.pichimney.com to host a broader range of Raspberry Pi related downloads. The servers that I’ve been using were part of the BigV.io beta, so I’ve not been picking up the tab for […]
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Tags: bandwidth, BigV, build, device, hosting, image, loop, openelec, OpenVZ, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, release, RPi, rsync, SD, VM, VPS
One of the great disappointments for me in last week’s launch of the iPhone 5 is that it doesn’t come with near field communications (NFC) capabilities. This was explained in an interview with Senior VP Phil Schiller: It’s not clear that NFC is the solution to any current problem, Schiller said. “Passbook does the kinds of […]
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Tags: apple, authentication, NFC, payments, terminal, token
Tablets go multi user (at last)
Almost a year and a half ago I wrote that tablets should support multiple user profiles: Multitasking —> multiuser? As more tablets and similar devices start to appear in the household I’m increasingly convinced that they should have multi user capabilities. A smartphone may be a personal device, but a tablet is a more social, shareable […]
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Tags: 7", 8.9", amazon, family, Fire, HD, kindle, LTE, multi, multi-user, user
I’ve had my original Samsung Galaxy Tab for over a year now, and it’s a great device. I particularly like that it has 3G (and that it came with a SIM that I can use relatively inexpensively in the US[1]). It shipped with Android 2.2 (Froyo), and after rooting and restocking I’ve pretty much left […]
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Tags: 4.0, android, boot, bricked, CM9, CyanogenMod, Galaxy, Ice Cream Sandwich, ICS, Overcome, recovery, Samsung, tab, unbootable, upgrade
Drones
Barely a week goes by these days without me seeing something about a cool home built drone project on sites like Hack a Day, and a couple of weeks ago the Open Source Hardware Users Group (OSHUG) had a meeting dedicated to drones. I really liked the idea of using Kinect as a controller for […]
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Tags: ARDrone, drone, drones, kinect, OpenRelief, OSHUG, quadcopter
KVM mort
This isn’t a post about the KVM Hypervisor, which I believe is alive, well and rather good. This is a post about keyboard, video and mouse switches. At both home and work I have multiple machines, and monitors with multiple inputs, so all I need is a KM switch to share my keyboard and mouse […]
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Tags: digital, displayport, DVI, HDMI, keyboard, KVM, monitor, mouse, switch, USB, VGA, video
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