DIY Girls Princess Bedroom Makeover and Playroom Makeover
Since moving to our new house we have been doing a number of DIY jobs, including this makeover of our little girls bedroom, and turning the spare room into a…
Building a PWA vuejs app with wordpress API – Part 7
By now in out Building a PWA vuejs app with wordpress API journey, we have a basic vuejs app which can fetch data from a Wordpress API using axios and…
Lego Interactive Play
Legos design process: how lego embraced tech. this talk is excellent - I got some lego we had to make a duck in 45 seconds - I didnt have any…
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OS Detection Techniques
Os Detection Techniques and OS fingerprinting Os Detection Techniques - Background information This is a list of Os Detection Techniques, with explanations for all the active and passive Os Detection…
Adding cordova to an existing vue app
It turns out that adding cordova to an existing vue app is pretty easy. If only I'd known this before trying at least 10 different ways: First, make sure your…
xdebug in brackets editor
Remote Debugging PHP in Brackets with XDebug prereqs: This post assumes you already have: a working xdebug installBrackets How to get Xdebug working with Brackets? Open BracketsGoto the extensions tab…
Remote Debugging PHP in Visual Studio Code with XDebug
Remote Debugging PHP in Visual Studio Code with XDebug prereqs: 1) This post assumes you already have a working xdebug install2) vscode How to get Xdebug working with Visual Studio…
Coding in php on android
It turns out that coding in php on android is possible (even if its not as good as on a mac, linux or even windows). In this blog post I'll…
Migrate music from itunes to google play
Migrate music from itunes to google play. 1) goto play.google.com/music 2) sign up (the free service is fine, when it asks for a payment, you can select 'google play balance')…
Gamesmania
Gamesmania - 4 decades of gaming at the Glasgow science centre Chris, Gordon, Heather and I went to the science centre to play retro games So many good games! https://youtu.be/l63snKgQdSQ…
Ayr Farm Park
On Thursday we went to Ayr Farm Park with Granny. Lots of sand-castles were made, lots of climbing and lots of trampolines were trampled. After dinner we even had a…
Kelvingrove park
Today we went for a walk from Glasgow Harbour along to Kelvingrove park. We entered Kelvingrove park through the gate where Dumbarton road changes to Argyl street, at Partick bridge,…
Riverside Museum
We went to the Riverside Museum today. We can see it from the window, but we dont manage to get along as much as we should, so we decided to…
VR Headsets
I got a VR headset as a christmas present - i havent really had time to play with it yet, but look out for some posts about this new tech…
How to install birdwatcher in kali linux
How to install birdwatcher in kali linux Birdwatcher is an OSINT data analysis and data gathering tool for twitter. Birdwatcher has been designed to feel like metasploit or recon-ng, so…
BBC Micro:bit
My brother got me a BBC micro:bit for my birthday. I decided to have a play around with it to see what it can do - its a pretty good…
Raspberry Pi
My brother and his wife got me a raspberry pi for my birthday :D So far I haven't decided what to do with it, But I have lots of ideas…
Fixing the cmd and fn keys with an apple keyboard in linux
I use an apple keyboard at work, I also use ubuntu. There are two things that I need to do to fix the cmd and fn keys with an apple…
Glasgow Real Ale Festival
We cheated today and got the underground to the city center to go to the real ale festival at the briggait. for those of you who dont know where it…
Games console emulation android
Games console emulation android - I recently got a jxd s5110b android game tablet thing. My first driod. It is basically a small android tablet, but with hardware controls for…
Osx console emulators
This post is about osx console emulators. It should help you pick the best emulators for your games jump to: Game Boy / Color / Game Boy Advance Nintendo Entertainment…
Infinite stevie wonder superstition
this is awesome. the infinite jukebox. its created with the echo nest api. from their faq: How does it work? - We use the Echo Nest analyzer to break the…
Scrobble itunes match plays to last.fm
I use last.fm. I also use itunes match. the only problem is that there isnt an easy way to sync the play counts unless you sync your ipad / iphone…
Shorten wordpress urls with su.pr
Stumbleupon have a url shortening service: su.pr they also have a plugin for wordpress that lets you shorten your urls. if you use the 'supr by stumbleupon' plugin in your…
Snes emulators on ipad mini
I posted a while ago about snes emulators on ios devices and promised to follow up with a write-up of the best Snes emulators on ipad mini. first up: snes…
Access osx built in wifi analyser from airport icon
Osx has a lot of built in tools. there is a wifi analyser / packet capture tool to open it, just hold down ALT + click on the wifi icon…
Ableton live 9 released
Ableton released live 9 :) there are loads of cool new features - things like 'automation as part of a clip' which is nice :) they also have 'drums to…
Ios 6 is out now!
Ios 6 is out now, you can download it to play with all its goodies like facebook integration and passbook and the new maps :)
Airplay from iphone or ipad to linux target
This will show you how to airplay from iPhone or iPad to linux. This way you can stream from your iPhone to a linux media server, or a raspberry pi…
Preview files in spotlight
This will show you how to preview files in spotlight on osx. if you perform a search using spotlight you can preview all the files shown, simply hover the mouse…
Enable airplay on bbc iplayer for ipad or iphone
This will show you how to enable airplay on bbc iplayer for ipad or iphone. doing this will let you watch bbc iplayer content on your tv via your apple…
Access shared itunes library from ipad or iphone
This will show you how to use itunes home sharing to view and play your entire itunes library from your mac or pc on your ipad or iphone in your…
Cool itunes now playing notification in dock
This will show you how to get a cool itunes 'now playing' notification in your dock open terminal.app type: defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool TRUE killall -9 Dock this will…
100 places to get free legal music downloads online
This is my list of 100 places to get free legal music downloads online www.largeheartedboy.com have a list with lots on it itunes is good for free music itsfreedownloads.com have…
Enable ipad1 multitouch gestures and display mirroring
This one is excellent. in ios5 apple decided to remove the multitouch gestures from the ipad1. they are still there, just turned off in a setting that you cant get…
IPhone camera zoom
This page will show you how to zoom in with your iPhone camera when you take photos. You will also find out how to view the zoom bar so that…
Fix missing or incorrect itunes song data with songgenie
Songgenie is an application by equinux that finds metadata for your music collection. Songgenie can find song names, album names, genre, track number, lyrics and can help fix missing or…
Force itunes to re-scan your library
This will show you how to force iTunes to re-scan your library to fix missing metadata by re-scanning all your music files. You can re-fresh individual files by playing them…
Fix missing album and song covers in itunes with coverscout
coverscout is an application by equinux that finds covers for your music collection. It can fix missing album and song covers in itunes. it embeds the artwork in the mp3…