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 permanent playroom so that she had somewhere to draw, play and read. Her upcoming 4th birthday was the perfect excuse Read more…
By now, we have a basic vuejs app which can fetch data from a WordPress API using axios and can display the data.The aim of this series, however is to build an app and get it on the app stores. To achieve this, we are going to use cordova. Cordova Read more…
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 lego, so had to find some first! (managed to make it in 5 seconds!) 3 principles of lego intrinsic motivation Read more…
Os Detection Techniques Background information This is a list, with explanations for all the active and passive Os Detection Techniques I can find for remote operating system identification – there is a massive list of sources at the end. Background information: Os Detection Techniques Active fingerprinting – Active fingerprinting is Read more…
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 environment is setup npm install -g cordovanpm install -g @vue/cli clone your existing repo and cd to its folder Read more…
Remote Debugging PHP in Brackets with XDebug prereqs: This post assumes you already have: a working xdebug install Brackets How to get Xdebug working with Brackets? Open Brackets Goto the extensions tab (the second icon on the right pane) Search for ‘xdebug’ Click install Click close, click close again Click Read more…
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 Code? Open vscode Goto the extensions tab (the last icon on the left pane) Search for ‘PHP Debug’ Click install Read more…
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 go into some editors, IDE’s and other options for editing php code (and running a development LAMP stack) on your Read more…
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’) 3) go here for instructions form google 4) go here: to get the google music manager to upload your tracks Read more…
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! So many good games!
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 play in the ball-pit!
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, to the west of the river kelvin. A quick walk up the west bank of the river kelvin takes you Read more…
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 go today. We got up early and had a big breakfast – fresh strawberries, apples and bananas on top of Read more…
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 :D
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 should be familiar for anyone who has used those tools. Install birdwatcher in kali linux: Kali has ruby 2.2.x. by Read more…
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 ecosystem – you can edit code in python, load it to the device using bluetooth from your mobile and its Read more…
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 – I could turn it into a gameboy (though I already have a couple of handheld retro gaming machines – Read more…
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 keyboard in linux. 1) modify a file to make the F1-F12 keys work properly (eg, pressing the fn key makes Read more…
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 is, its just along from the clutha bar. (they are raising funds for the clutha fund too). We are sticking Read more…
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 gaming :) It comes with a few emulators pre-installed, but they aren’t that great, so Ive collected a list of Read more…
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 System [ NES ] Super Nintendo Entertainment System [ SNES ] Nintendo 64 playstation psx link to another post on Read more…
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 song into beats. We play the song beat by beat, but at every beat there’s a chance that we will Read more…
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 to your iTunes. until I found cloudscrob. its an app that costs 69p, but for me its well worth it Read more…
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 wordpress then it will auto submit your posts to stumble upon!! to set it up: first head over to su.pr Read more…
I posted a while ago about snes emulators on ios devices and promised to follow up with a write-up of the best ios snes emulators. first up: snes AD+ good: you can download roms from within the emulator games work bad: the controls are a little too ‘analogue’ – remember Read more…
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 AD+ good: you can download roms from within the emulator games work bad: the controls are a little too ‘analogue’ Read more…
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 in the menu bar the dropdown menu will have a lot more information, eg transmit rate / security info for Read more…
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 midi’, ‘harmony to midi’ and ‘melody to midi’ which basically means that you can play, or sample anything and convert Read more…
Ios 6 is out now, you can download it to play with all its goodies like facebook integration and passbook and the new maps :)
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 :D If you don’t know what airplay is already, then this post most likely isn’t for you, but here is Read more…
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 over the file and a ‘quicklook’ will appear. if its an mp3 or any other music file then you can Read more…
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 tv :D airplay on bbc iplayer open the iplayer app double-click the home button (the physical button on your ipad Read more…
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 mac or pc turn on ‘home sharing’ itunes > preferences > sharing turn on ‘share my itunes library on my Read more…
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 enable the setting and the next time you play something in itunes it will show you with a neat popup Read more…
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 a list of the latest free tracks on iTunes Amazon mp3 store has a lot of free stuff too last.fm Read more…
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 to :( multitouch gestures make the ipad much better to use. display mirroring means that I can use it to Read more…
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 you can zoom in and out using that. Every iPhone and iPad that have a camera have the same feature. Read more…
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 incorrect itunes song data. 1) Download and install You can download the app from the equinux website, there is a Read more…
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 in iTunes. If you have used an external program to change data and you don’t want to have to play Read more…