Twitter
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 [...]
linux
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 [...]
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 [...]
Getting line-in input on a Mac Pro
Having just made the switch to Linux and with Garageband playing up on me (for some reason it starts 3/4 bars before the audio appears on the timeline) I decided to try and use Linux to record my demos. Although this ultimately means learning a new recording package it will hopefully give me more freedom [...]
Pidgin – a Twitter client?
Since making the switch to Linux I’ve had to find a new Twitter client. I’m normally a massive TweetDeck fan but due to Adobe dropping AIR support for Linux it’s not a viable option. I really like TweetDeck it’s not only useful because it allows you to have lots of columns open but it also [...]