Category Archives: Tech
7 iPhone Apps that can make you a better musician
Are you a musician that owns an iPhone? Take a look down Connor McKnights list of suggest apps that can help you lift you game. Evolver.fm – iPhone Musician Apps by Connor McKnight Music teaching apps consistently rank high in … Continue reading
HTC Desire
Due to a combination of circumstances (Priscilla’s phone turning off 50% of the time when someone calls her) and myself wanting to only carry one phone, we’ve both gotten new mobiles. Work was willing to reimburse me for mine (rather … Continue reading
NASA Image of the Day
NASA publish an Image of the Day which is normally an awesome picture of space, from space, or relating to space in some way. Here is today’s (I thought it was really cool): Mirror Images Space shuttle Atlantis (foreground) sits … Continue reading
Large Hadron Collider
The new LHC is about to commence operations. Some scientists believe the LHC is possibly going to create a black hole which will destroy all life on earth as we know it. They believe this might happen as the LHC … Continue reading
MythTV on Ubuntu
A few months ago I rebuilt my development box to be a PVR using Ubuntu Linux and MythTV. I originally planned to use Mythbuntu but had a lot of issues installing it, let alone getting it to work the way … Continue reading
Wiring up a 5.1 surround sound system
Recently my sister purchased a Yamaha RX-V361B 5.1 home theatre receiver. My Dad first had a go at setting it up, but failed as there was a hardware fault with the receiver. After it was repaired/replaced, my brother, brother-in-law and … Continue reading
Cheap PC = GNU/Linux
An interesting opinion piece over on Desktop Linux today – Linux is about to take over the low end of PC’s. Basicly the author, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, cites the recent development of low cost hardware platforms such as the Everex … Continue reading
gPC from Wal-Mart
Over in the US, budget department store Wal-Mart has started selling the Linux based gPC for US$200. It runs a modified version of Ubuntu with the E17 Enlightenment desktop environment called gOS. Applications installed seems to be at a minimum … Continue reading
WordPress upgrade – 2.3
This weblog is written in a online framework called WordPress. WordPress was setup back in 2003 by some folks who were jaded with Movable Type and decided to make a free, open-source blogging platform that was user friendly and highly … Continue reading
Install your own car stereo
My car isn’t great. A 1994 Mitsubishi Magna TS Executive V6 manual, it is better than some and goes pretty good, within reason. But it’s not great. One of the frustrations I had was the lousy sound system. The Executive … Continue reading