Category Archives: Tech
SOPA, PIPA, ACTA & The Cloud
SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) has gone dormant for now, thanks to a massive outcry by millions of end-users who are, ironically, far better clued up about how the Interpipes work than the legislators debating the bills and a host of big-name companies, like Facebook, Yahoo, Google and so […]
Android 4.0 coming in early 2012
The makers of CyanogenMod have announced on Twitter that they are working on CM9 and should have a release ready by early 2012. This is very exciting news as the new version of the popular Android OS, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich has a whole bunch of new fixes and improvements […]
Carbon Nanotubes in the 17th Century
This is a copy of an article I came across while looking at swordsmithing on Wikipedia and I made a fascinating discovery – nanotubes have been around and in use for much longer than we realise! Science is awesome! Carbon nanotubes are no longer the proud boast of 21st century materials […]
Phone Customising
After nearly turning my HTC Desire into a matte-brown and rather expensive paperweight, I emerged on the other side with a bright shiny new phone which now has a whole bunch of things installed on it. The first thing that I did after recovering it is immediately flash Oxygen 2.1.4 […]
Psychadellivision
I came across this on DeviantART! It’s a simple (ish) piece of flash programming but it produces some rather pretty patterns and is quite addictive. Spirograph freaks, eat your heart out! Psychadellivision by ~Volcanic-Penguin on deviantART
Ferrofluids
A ferrofluid is a made up of nanoscale ferrous particles suspended in a carrier fluid such as an oil or even water. They behave in a similar fashion to non-Newtonian fluids in the sense that you can do some rather funky stuff with them. Here’s an art installation! I like […]
Mobile Madness
I just installed a nifty tool on my G1 which allows me to post stuff from my phone wherever I am. Scary! It’s like Twitter Lite! Hope you enjoyed my web design post – I have another in the works about how to keep your data safe and prevent data […]