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Recently I was a bit naughty a shelled out around £210 for some kit that would help me with my music project. I had just installed Logic 8 onto my Mac Pro and found that my PS Eye, which I had used for recording purposes before hand was no longer usable so I decided to [...]
iPhone SDK, NSXMLParser and multiple child nodes into an array – Getting rid of whitespace
I’m currently making my first iPhone app for work, it’s designed to be an enhanced version of the leaflet given out to patients when they first arrive at the hospital. My idea was to take the information within and make it into something more iPhone friendly. On my journey through the magical world of iPhone [...]
Have some fun with the new ‘timeline’ Facebook Layout using GIMP/Photoshop
I’ve activated the new ‘timeline’ Facebook layout on my profile and decided to have some fun using GIMP to make a funny picture. I’m a massive Katamari fan and I love internet humour so I decided to add the running girl to a Katamari scene. Here’s a short tutorial on what to do. Grab a [...]
Announcing ‘You were almost a Jill sandwich’
In October the missus (Leanna) and I will be launching our own game blog called ‘You were almost a Jill sandwich‘ on Tumblr. Named after one of our favourite lines in the original Resident Evil (thank you Barry!) the blog’s format will be a mashup of the news and fan boy styles you commonly find [...]
Using your HTC Sensation to debug Android apps on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) using udev and adb
Bit of a long winded title. I recently made the switch from the iPhone to an Android device. I’ve done a little bit of iPhone programming and found the whole process of hooking my iPhone up to my Mac quite easy. Unfortunately my Mac’s hard drive decided to kick the bucket so I installed Ubuntu [...]
Easy way to add custom AddThis Twitter button to your WordPress theme
At work I’m adding the social media sharing tools into one our mandatory publications. One thing I really wanted to do was to have was quote boxes that had sharing buttons which when you pressed the Tweet button instead of getting the normal “page title http://t.co/mehmeh via @addthis” that AddThis supplies by default it would [...]
Packing away my guitar gear
I’ve got a room inspection next week so I’m tidying up and decided to give my pedal storage case a go. A while back I bought a wooden briefcase for £20 and set it aside for use as a pedal case / if I was able to pedal board. It’s a nice case and I’ve [...]
Building a Foursquare app part one – Setting up an app and OAuth
I’m a massive Foursquare fan. I’ve got a cling on my window, I’ve done a lot of work at St George’s Healthcare making sure people checking into our locations are given the option to patient information directly in Foursquare and I’m a Foursquare Ambassador (If you’re considering signing up to Foursquare please use my sign [...]
My current guitar set up
This week I’ve received two great packages from eBay, Firstly a BOSS NS-50 noise gate (which by the way CityLink my full title is Colin Wren, Supreme Overlord of Tooting. The eBayer put my full title, why can’t you?) and a BOSS MT-2 metal distortion pedal. After a while of using software simulations of amps [...]
Music players for Linux
Linux seems to have an abundance of music players it appears but as with most things on Linux it’s about finding the one that works best for you. To do this you have to pretty much try everything for a day, to see how it handles different tasks and the options it has. No matter [...]