One of the most impressive talks came from Kate Swanborg of Dreamworks Animation. Kate has been with Dreamworks through releases like Shrek, Madagascar, The Croods, A Sharks Tale and the last release Turbo. During her speech we got an insight into the processing power and time needed to produce these movies and how they come to life. She also spoke …
Edible printed 3D candy CES 2014
3D printing is all the rage at CES 2014. If you are at the event and do not go look at the 3D section you are missing out, literately missing out. They have “The Sugar Lab” there who are printing candy with 3D printers. The little shapes in the bowl you see below are bits of sugar that has been …
TweetShirt CES 2014
CES 2014 brought the Social Media Vending machine right into the think of it. “IF” you could get an internet connection you could theoretically tweet the machine with a special tweet plus a code and it would dispense a t-shirt for you. It worked really well for me but the machine did have a few moment of confusion. Something to …
Install motion on a Raspberry Pi
I have spent many days now looking at litterelly hundreds of ways to install Motion on a Raspberry Pi . There are many pretty simple solutions if you are using a powered USB Hub and standard Webcam. However, if you are using a Raspberry Pi Cam or the new NOIR Cam them you’re out of luck. Luckily there is a …
Adding comments and social sharing to Ghost
What do you mean there are no comments available on a blogging platform? That’s right, this is Ghost (Beta). It is in Beta mode and has a long way to go but it really is an incredible blogging system already. Luckily there are a few tweaks you can make which makes this new platform rather usable. I have just come …
Ghost – Not for the faint hearted blogger
I have just finished setting up my first Ghost site and all I can say is, “That’s not what I expected”. Ghost is the new blogging platform that took off like wildfire on KickStarter and after a few short months in in general backer release. (If you backed them you get an early release). And whilst it’s not quite WordPress …
The New Digital Age Giveaway
I have a copy of “The New Digital Age” by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen which I would like to pass on. What better way than to give it to one of our readers! So All you need to do is “Like” & “Share” our Facebook page (its quite new). I will pick one random Like and send you the …
Office 365 One step forward two steps back
A few weeks back Microsoft started upgrading Office 365 Tenants to the new Admin and exchange system. Whilst this comes with a few cosmetic tweaks they have once again failed to address key concerns that have been running around for the last 2 years like, Directory Sync issues and the complete lack of management if you are Federated without an …
Kickstarter – beware its addictive
For the last few months I have been following quite a few projects on kickstarter and can admit, I’m hooked. What did we do before this? Spacemonkey had me spellbound, I’m not sure why I kept going back to check on it, once you have placed your backing it is not like much can change but you find yourself wanting …
Definition of System
I came across this definition of a System today, so beautifully explained I needed to post it. It can also be too easy to think that only Computers are systems, we need to remember that our processes as groups can as easily be a “System”. System – A group of components that are connected in some way that perform some …