“So I have been contemplating purchasing a Chromebook for awhile, and it seemed I finally had a business need for a device so I was going to get to play with one. Looking for the right ChromeBook I was lucky enough to be able to play with a bunch of devices in Boston and see how the felt for ease of use etc. I was also lucky enough to be looking for one at the…
So I had been thinking about getting a 3D printer for a while, and as luck would have it whilst I was attending LinuxConfAU I bumped into my friend Chris Biggs who just so happened to be running a 3D Workshop in Brisbane in the coming weekends. The workshop he was running was to build the TronXy 3D Printer http://www.tronxy.com/ the exact model we where building was the Tronxy X3S 3D Printer So I headed…
So Purism is a company I have been following since their inception. To address why I think they are the most important hardware company around I will write another blog post, but for most people I think they understand why. So if we take it from the point that this is a really exciting day for me then the right context is set. Opening the box was cool, black box, and black laptop, nothing too…
I was happy to learn about the Living Computer Museum located in Seattle. We headed down for a Sunday to go and see the collection of Retro Computers. I felt like a kid in a candy store it was awesome. There is so many old machines in working order, the cool thing is that they allow you to actually use the machines. We created a punch card from one of the old IBM Punch Card…
“I was lucky enough to be handed a Windows8 RT Surface to play with. It is a great tablet one that unlike the Ipad I have been able to actually perform work tasks on. While RT is still limited in the sense that you can not store Desktop applications on it unlike the Windows8 Surface Pro the main navigation and use of Metro Apps remains the same between the two. I like the fact that…
Found out about company who will be offering Mozilla Dev phones for around $100 euro or so I hear? Either way rumors are they are not expected to exceed the $200 mark. For now I have signed up for the list and they will email you once the first batch is ready for sale. Not the best news I know as this does not allow us to play around any sooner, however if you are…