Archive for November, 2009

Streaming off my Dreambox

I found an excellent application that lets you stream and control your Dreambox from the comfort of your PC (or laptop in my case). It’s called DreamStream and is written specifically for all Dreamboxes that are running Enigma 2 ( a framebuffer-based zapping application for linux ), in particular DM...

Games under the tree

Games make one of the best sort of Christmas presents, in my humble opinion anyway. Don’t get me wrong, I have no objections to socks and aftershave, after all, even useful things have their place; but there’s nothing quite like watching a kid’s face light up when they get a...

Trying out Seesmic Desktop

Image via CrunchBase Well, seeing I’m on Windows 7 and already a Seesmic user, I’ve been tempted by all the noise about Seesmic desktop announced at Microsoft PDC and decided to give it a whirl. It’s YATC (Yet Another Twitter Client), but specifically has been written in WPF and is...

Power without the mess

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Powermat. All opinions are 100% mine. I’ve been reading about Powermat for some time now and it always great when I get a Sponsored Post about something I’m interested in. It gives me an opportunity to look a bit...

Latest gadget: Dreambox 800HD

There’s a new gadget at home, which is actually an upgrade on my birthday present, well ok, it’s also my Christmas present. Anyway, it’s called  Dreambox and is essentially a Linux based satellite receiver. This box in particular is high definition PVR, featuring a single pluggable DVB tuner (satellite in...

Thinking about summer holidays

We’re off to Malta for Christmas, but one can’t help but think about what we’re going to do this summer. The truth is that with a 4 year old and 2 babies, our options are a little limited. Flights are a bit of a drag, I’m sure we’ll learn all...

Security Audit? Who needs one of those?

Here’s an interesting screenshot I just took on a website: If you’re into development in any shape or form, you’ll see a number of security issues Three has with their website, including but not limited to: Password stored in plain text in a connection string Trivial password that could be...

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