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Taking screenshots with the Raspberry Pi
Posted on the 4th June 2012 at 12:17pm.
I am always taking screenshots. While I work or play games, I always find something I want or need to take a screenshot of. I know that there will be times I will want to take screenshots on the Raspberry Pi...
Playing with a Raspberry Pi, and installing Chromium Browser
Posted on the 2nd June 2012 at 2:39pm.
I managed to find more time to play with my Raspberry Pi and just generally learn what it can do as a cheap PC. It is obviously not meant to be the fastest machine in the world, but I am honestly...
After 3 months, my Raspberry Pi finally arrives!
Posted on the 2nd June 2012 at 2:17pm.
Well, considering how long the RPi was in the post, I am pleasantly surprised by the lack of mould and foul smell. I made sure I did the most important thing first with the RPi; sit and examine it for a long...
Useful software tool for wireless troubleshooting
Posted on the 7th April 2012 at 4:18pm.
A few months ago our house was blessed by fibre optic broadband. After a few months of not achieving more than 5mbps, reaching 36mbps was like being in heaven (A very uninteresting and dull heaven I suppose)! Then our speed dropped. Bam,...
Delving inside a Dell laptop
Posted on the 21st March 2012 at 9:53pm.
My girlfriend's laptop decided it didn't want to work properly anymore. The first issue was Microsoft Word insisted that opening a document was simply too much to ask, so caused a blue screen of death. This was relatively easy to fix...
The most expensive 'pi' I've ever bought
Posted on the 7th March 2012 at 9:05pm.
On the 29th of February, The Raspberry Pi Foundation started to sell their new computer, the rather pleasantly named 'Raspberry Pi'. The Raspberry Pi is smaller than a modern smart phone, with the width and length being very similar to that of...
The rise of the mobile browser
Posted on the 2nd March 2012 at 9:27pm.
Since the rapid take off of both the iPhone and Android devices, there has been a big push to try and get websites working on mobile phones and tablet PCs. Some people develop a completely new look or layout for the mobile...