Practical Arduino is not a book for complete beginners, but it still starts off quite gently. It does assume that you already have an Arduino and have figured out how to create a sketch and push it to the Arduino. This is not a huge step as most of the info is on the Arduino [...]

Although knowledge of the command line is not required to use Linux sometimes it can come in very helpful. renaming files is one area where it is often quicker and easier to batch rename a number of files using a command line program or short script.
mv
The normal command for renaming a file is mv (move). [...]

Dropbox provides a folder on your computer, which can be shared across multiple computers, across multiple operating systems, across the Internet or a LAN.
If you ever need to access your files across multiple PCs then you need
Dropbox!
I was a little sceptical when I first heard of Dropbox. My first thought was that there are already [...]

The Arduino is an open source electronics platform that has gained a huge following amongst hobby electronic enthusiasts.
This book is by Massimo Bani who is co-founder of Arduino platform. The book is aimed at the complete beginner to both electronics as well as the Arduino assuming no former electronics or programming experience.
The book takes [...]

This is a fairly short review of the High School Musical photo cube. The reason for the review being quite short is that there is nothing good that I can think to write about it.
This is a photo viewer in the shape of a cube, with High School musical pictures on 3 sides, controls on [...]

I try to be an advocate for Linux through my blog and tweets etc. Occassionally I will mention linux to friends and family, but I don’t normally go around “preaching” Linux to others. Recently I was purchasing a Linux Magazine (and a web design magazine) from my local Tesco’s store and I ended up in [...]

The latest version of Firefox is now available to download. Firefox 3.6 is the latest release following on just over 6 months after the successful release of Firefox version 3.5.

Back in the 1990’s I used to use Mandrake Linux as my preferred distribution. Back in the day it had great hardware support and looked good.Mandrake merged with Lycoris and Connectiva to form Mandriva Linux.
Mandriva went through a stage where the distribution was not as stable as it should have been and about that time [...]

Version 3 of the Thunderbird email client was released at the end of 2009. I’ve recently upgraded some of my computers to the new client.
Thunderbird is a email client available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It can be used as a replacement Windows Mail (formally known as Outlook Express) and can also access [...]

Photo gifts are a popular way of creating personalised presents for relatives. Although some photo gifts can be ordered through the Java based online applications these are normally limited compared to the dedicated download photo applications. Unfortunately the dedicated software required to create some photo gifts is not available for Linux and sometimes not even [...]