by Simon Coles | Apr 20, 2013 | 3D Printing, Being a Parent, Geeky, Minecraft
We’ve just got a MakerBot Replicator and the boys naturally wanted to print their Minecraft creations. To start, we installed minecraft.print. I actually installed this on their Ubuntu-based Minecraft server (Josh doesn’t have root access). Cloning it from...
by Simon Coles | Apr 12, 2013 | Geeky
I’m exploring “Cutting the cord” at home (cancelling Cable). So I got a Human YouTube box. See link below. The idea is I want something which can give us Live TV but without a subscription. I’ll need a DTT ariel in time. But for the moment,...
by Simon Coles | Dec 8, 2012 | Geeky, Tablets
I’ve killed my iPad Mini (dropped it in a car park) so I’m back to using my Nexus 7 around the house. This is an interesting exercise because I’d stopped using it once I got the iPad Mini and mostly forgotten about it. Here’s some brief...
by Simon Coles | Nov 2, 2011 | Apple, Books, Geeky, Interesting, Running a Business
Seems Microsoft could have had a decent rival to the iPad, but killed it. Courier was cancelled because the product didn’t clearly align with the company’s Windows and Office franchises As a result, Microsoft is in third place in the Tablet space (behind Apple and...
by Simon Coles | Jun 12, 2011 | Being a Parent, Geeky
Ah, the tricky issue of server names…
by Simon Coles | May 17, 2011 | Geeky, Running a Business
Rick Bookstaber makes the point on Business Insider that technology is increasingly changing the way we live our lives (also here). He comes at it from the perspective of Commodities but his thoughts parallel my own personal experience of how technology is changing my...