I'm a genius. No, really. This morning I invented possibly the best breakfast in the world, and it's all thanks to Jimmy's Iced Coffee: Gingerbread Inception. And it's simple! All you need is a carton of the delicious Jimmy's Iced Coffee gingerbread, and a packet of Dorset Cereals' Gingerbread Porridge. Now, the iced coffee is a [...]
Building your NAS with a HP MicroServer N40L
If you were one of the avid hotukdeals.com members who picked up a bargain HP MicroServer this week like I did, or you're looking at getting one, you probably want to turn it into a nice little home server that'll do everything you could possible need, and to be honest it's more than powerful enough [...]
The Sky+HD Picasso DNLA control server protocol
Tonight, I released my first ever open source code that wasn't a wordpress plugin, SkyRemote. It's a python based IP remote control for Sky+HD boxes with the new Picasso EPG. This is currently the DRX980 and the DRX985 boxes. It's free as in beer, and licensed under the GPLv3. It's based on a piece of [...]
Sky+, DNLA, UPnP, the iPad app and the IP control protocol
Sky launched an update to the iPad Sky+ app this week, which enables the ability to remotely control your Sky box over IP, if you're updated to the new picasso interface. Obviously, I needed to figure out how it all works, and how I could write my own code to control it. Here are my [...]
iPhone 4/4S Home Buttons
It feels like every single person i've ever spoken too has had at least one iPhone 4/4S Home Button failure, yet Apple refuse to acknowledge it as a widespread problem. I think this is something we should take up with the UK trading authorities, but before I can do that, I want to get some [...]