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Hacking the EZ430 Chronos Watch on the Mac

Today my TI EZ430 Chronos Watch arrived, and I spent a little bit of time hacking it on my MacBook Air. It turns out that even though the documentation seems to require either a Windows machine or a...

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Working on the iPad

For the last month I've been doing a contract at Canary Wharf for HSBC. In an effort to minimise the amount of stuff I carry, I've just been taking my iPad into work with me. I've really missed having...

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My Evolving Media Setup

My media centre for the past 7 years has been a Mac Mini with an external hard disk. I've been playing music through iTunes and either watching movies from DVDs I've ripped to the hard-drive, or...

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Restarting Fitbit on the Mac

I seem to have a problem with my Fitbit Ultra and my Mac Air running OS/X 10.8. What happens is the fitbit daemon doesn't seem to work properly if I suspend the notebook by closing the lid. After...

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Bitcoin and the Byzantine Generals’ Problem

One of the main problems that Bitcoin solves is how to stop double spending. This is a hard problem to solve in a distributed currency, and is the reason why a lot of early digital currencies relied on...

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What Google Glass might soon be like

There is an interesting clip over on YouTube, that shows what having Google Glass (or something similar) might someday be like. I loved some of the ideas presented here, although I thought the scene...

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Using my phone as desktop

I am experimenting at the moment with using my phone as my primary computing device. I think that this is the future. There are phones coming out (hello iPhone 5s) with remarkably powerful processors....

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The Technological Arms Race and the Middle Class

Over the last few days there's been some rumblings in the blogosphere about whether technology will or won't destroy the middle class. There was this piece in the Washington Post by James Bessen...

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Mobile Tethering

I finally moved my cellular provider from O2 to Three, because Three has an unlimited data + tethering plan. So far it's been working really well. I brought in my wireless-only Nexus 7 to BNP Paribas'...

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iPad to iPhone Tethering Issues

The past few days I've been bringing in my new WIFI-only iPad and trying to use it tethered to my iPhone 5. It's been a frustrating experience so far. I've found that it works OK when the iPad is first...

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Problems with iPhone 5S and a Virgin SuperHub

Ever since I've had my iPhone 5S, I've had problems with the wifi on my 120 MB Virgin SuperHub. Quite often the phone fails to connect to sites, or the wifi connection drops out. I've even tried...

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Installing CyanogenMod on a Nexus 7

Yesterday I installed CyanogenMod on my 2012 Nexus 7. I decided to do this because I've been thinking a lot recently about how we will all be using our computing technology in the next few years. I...

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The Anker T320 Keyboard

I bought an Anker T320 bluetooth keyboard to use with my iPad, mainly because it had such good reviews on Amazon. It's an amazingly good keyboard! It's really light - much smaller and lighter than the...

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The Oculus Rift and Three Kinects

Here is a YouTube video showing a researcher working with an Oculus Rift and Three Microsoft Kinects. Even this simple setup looks amazing! Related posts: Detroit – Ground Zero for Economic Collapse...

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Configuring a Jaalee iBeacon Transmitter

I received 5 iBeacon transmitter units from ibeaconmodules.us today. They arrived unassembled, so I put them together and configured their local names with my iPhone. The first hurdle I found in...

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Da Vinci 3D Printer Arrives

Yesterday my XYZ Da Vinci 3D Printer arrived. I had a really fun day setting it up and doing some test prints. The first print I made was the "key chain" print that is on the firmware. This created a...

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OpenSCAD rocks the house!

Last night I was trying to print a camera lens clip that allows you to clip your camera lens to your camera strap. Unfortunately the clip for the strap wasn't wide enough. Fortunately the OpenSCAD...

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Jeremy Howard talk about the Data Science Revolution

Here is a talk about machine learning given by Jeremy Howard which is part of the Exponential Finance Conference series which is well worth watching: The Data Science Revolution (Jeremy Howard) -...

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The Raspberry Pi 2

The Raspberry Pi 2 was announced a week ago, and I decided to get one to use as a media centre. Mine arrived yesterday. Related posts: My Evolving Media Setup Zero-Six Weeks

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Python OAuth2 failing with X509 error

I've just spent about 20 minutes trying to authenticate with Twitter using the Python OAuth2 module. I kept on getting an X509 error, specifically: ssl.SSLError: [Errno 185090050] _ssl.c:343:...

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