marxy's musing on technology

Another great meeting out at the WIA shed at Dural today. Stephen VK2BLK has been busy mixing integrated circuits and valves: His shortwave ...

Netbooks are great, but sometimes 600 vertical pixels isn't enough. Ubuntu includes screen sharing but it's just a mirror of the sma...

Regrettably the iBook store still only appears to have free books this morning. It's great for project Gutenberg as it will draw many n...

Phones Played with a neighbour's HTC Desire , running Android 2.1 on Telstra, over the weekend: a very nice phone! Certainly up there wi...

Just noticed that the App and Book stores now work on an iPad in Australia. Last time I tried there were just error messages saying they are...

This week I took a day off and visited National Manufacturing week which was in Sydney at the Olympic Park Show grounds. Last time I went it...

I'm having a lovely weekend building the " Retro-75 " kit from Small Wonder Labs. It's an AM transceiver ostensibly for th...

I write software for a living so I know how much work is involved and as a result of that I'm more than happy to spend money buying soft...

Maybe I'm getting old but it seems amazing that you can play around with Ubuntu server running in a virtual machine running on a $400 ne...

A piece of tripod was missing this morning so Roi went all "Hill Street Blues" with the camera. For a change you get to look aroun...

The neighbours just came over for lunch outside and brought their Kindle. The eInk display technology will definitely persist. In this image...

Even though the iPad is another month away, accessories are available right now. At Maccentric I picked up a Cygnet "Lavish" case ...

The iPad eco-system is going to support a very profitable business in luxury cases. You very quickly realise that you definitely need a case...

I couldn't wait. My rationalisation is that I have a couple of iPad reviews to write and while normally Apple Asia are kind enough to ge...

Once again our Bigpond cable is down. Although the service status page mentions a few known issues they are all planned outages and say not...

I'm a big fan of aptana's free Pydev IDE for Eclipse. It does all the stuff a Python developer could wish for: code completion, hov...

I've been assisting with and working with Windows 7 a bit lately. It's pretty good, they're really working to catch up with Ubun...