Android 4 – Ice Cream Sandwich for Asus EeePad Transformer TF101 – ICS

I have already written a review of the Asus EeePad Tranformer tablets with Android which can installed with Android 3.2. It’s been a little frustrating waiting for the upgrade to the latest Android operating system 4.0 – known as Ice Cream Sandwich. It’s taken a little over two months to get the update, which isn’t too long, but...

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Humble Bundle – Games for Linux Windows Mac OS X and Android – you name the price and help charity

The Humble Bundle is a new way to buy games. Firstly this is a bundle of games all work on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and (for the first time) Android phones and tablets. Secondly there is no DRM or restrictions preventing you from getting on any playing the game. Thirdly you get to name your own price for the games. Finally you get to...

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Day out during half-term at the Black Country Living Museum

I have already described an earlier visit to the Black Country Museum during 2010. This time I took my daughter during the February half-term holiday. The black country museum is an outdoor / indoor museum showing a sample of buildings from the Black Country. There are a few different time periods within the site including Victorian...

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Book review: Screw Buisness as Usual by Richard Branson

I’ve always admired Sir Richard Branson, both as an Entreprenour and for some of the challenges he has undertaken. I’ve already got his Autobiography Losing My Virginity. Despite this I never knew associated him as a philanthropist or as a environmentalist, which it seams is exactly what he is.In his latest book “Screw Business as Usual”...

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Raspberry Pi – A new era in computer programming for school kids?

It seams like everyone is trying to get hold of a Raspberry Pi, but what exactly is it and what is all the fuss about?What is the Raspberry Pi?The Raspberry Pi is a small computer about the size of a credit card. The initial version is only available as a bare motherboard, but future versions will be available with a case.The Raspberry Pi...

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Review of Devolo dLAN 200 – Ethernet over power

I have already written a review of an earlier model of the Devolo Ethernet over power adapters.These devices provide an ethernet network connection by passing the signal over the mains electricity cables within the house. These are useful for devices that don’t have built-in wireless support (eg. blu-ray players, Internet enabled TVs...

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Simple electronic circuit for kids – low light sensor

My 6 year old daughter is learning about electricity at school, so I thought it was a great opportunity to show her some electronics whilst she was interested.We decided to create a low light sensor, as the circuit is quite simple, but it is still something that looks quite good when she shows it off to friends and family.This is the finished...

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Getting wireless to work on Xubuntu / Ubuntu linux with broadcom based firmware

In the past I have had problems with getting wireless working on Linux laptops. I thought this had been fixed with more recent distributions, but in some rare circumstances there can be problems.In this case I have an old laptop that I have set-up for my son to use. It’s ancient compared with current hardware, but is still able to run a less demanding distribution such as Xubuntu. It installed OK with and older version of Xubuntu,...

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Extended review of Asus Transformer Eee Pad

I have already written a initial review of the Asus Eee pad transformer TF101. The first review was written when I had just received it. I’ve now had time to put it through it’s paces and find it’s good and bad points.Android tabletAndroid is a Linux based operating system specifically designed for use on smartphones and touch screen...

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