Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 start-up review

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I was lucky enough to score a Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 from Santa this year and I finally found enough time to sit down and go through the first setup stages and here are my first impressions as a complete novice with Lego NXT and programmable robotics. Continue reading

John’s Phone – the worlds simplest phone review

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I recently caught a tweet about the simplest phone in the world, John’s phone, and I knew I had to have one. I don’t know what appealed to me in hindsight, maybe as a gadget guru it was the anti-hero of all devices, maybe it was the retro chic styling, the refined look of a Motorola mid 90′s pager, whatever I must haz one. Continue reading

I’m Posting every week in 2011

I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now.  I will be posting on this blog once a day / once a week for all of 2011.

I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I’m promising to make use of The DailyPost, and the community of other bloggers with similiar goals, to help me along the way, including asking for help when I need it and encouraging others when I can.

If you already read my blog, I hope you’ll encourage me with comments and likes, and good will along the way.

Did I say how much I love WordPress?

Someone streamline me

Isn’t technology meant to make life easier?

I have a server, this blog, a Tumblr blog, twenty email addresses, five domain names, heaps of social media properties to manage and at least four online banking account plus endless passwords for work and personal logins.

I need a way to streamline and simplify/manage all if this content and keep being creative at the same time.

Help!

Howlyland – Prototype 2 up and running

This may seem lame but trust me – to someone just learning ActionScript it feels like a hell of an achievement.

I have now developed my first Flash game beyond what the standard offer is from the text book, into a game with 3 stages of progressive memory match games – and it works!

It took some serious ‘nutting out’ but once I really understood what was going on I found I could do what I had originally planned and create 3 games with a click through progression into one. This is going to hold me in excellent stead now to develop the narrative and then integrate my graphics.

Anyway, now you can click to play and follow through the 3 different puzzles below in this simple matching/memory puzzle game. None of the graphics are mine and the title pages and click through pages are just place holders while I work through the code.

iPad review: the computer you should feel guilty about owning

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I have pined over it for all this time, but now I have had enough time to realise that I don’t actually want one. At least not the first generation one… I think many people, myself included, have been wondering … Continue reading