December 27, 2008 – 8:14 pm
Even though I promised I wouldn’t do a lot of computer work this week, I find myself not wanting to watch TV and already going to quickly through my Christmas present book ‘Lucky Legs‘ ( which has been a great read so far) So I sat down and approved a comment from MRZ aka Rob Zdrojewski [...]
December 24, 2008 – 8:14 am
Well we have come to the end of another year and tek is pretty much shut down, despite the building of pens and wiimotes. We look forward to the new year and it’s challenges plus I will be updating the sites wiimote page with all the information necesesary to get you started and hopefully will [...]
December 12, 2008 – 6:27 pm
So we made it down to Masterton for the Makoura College Reunion. I am at present looking after Rylee while Nat and her parents attend the opening night. Got some great photos on the way down and always interesting to visit a place that was once a huge part of someones life.
We have found of [...]
December 8, 2008 – 12:59 pm
So after we upgraded our home iMac we passed our old one on to Natalies parents which after six months required a rebuild as the drive was corrupted. I should have know the death bell was ringing but reformatted and reinstalled instead.
Then as I leave for Australia Nat rings saying it’s died again and [...]
December 2, 2008 – 8:25 pm
Of the iPhone apps I have tried the one that has me most impressed with the possibilities is locly. This app uses the built in gps or cellphone towers to work out where you are and then tells you what is close, as well as flickr images and nearby tweets. You can then click on [...]
November 27, 2008 – 10:48 am
Recently had an email which asked some good questions thought I might reply here as well for everyones benefit.
To answer your Questions
What are you using as the laptops? - full size, or netbooks? How many do you have, and what size school?
We are using a fifty/fifty mix of mac/pc all fullsize we have 120 at [...]
November 23, 2008 – 8:16 pm
Since I went crazy and brought an iPhone last week I though it was time to Mobilise TEK for Opera Mini, Windows mobile and safari mobile, This was a crazy easy task which consisted of downloading mobilepress. Unzipping then uploading the folder to the plugins folder and ticking a couple of boxes and bingo mobile [...]
November 23, 2008 – 8:02 pm
Last Monday was the first of our school visits in Australia where we were hosted by APHS. I took the photo below from the second story balcony.
We went back after visiting here in 2006 and to be honest we stole their great idea of school owned laptops. It is nice to see the contrast between [...]
November 11, 2008 – 11:01 am
Ok so it’s now a recession, even the morning radio station said so but still the IT world seems to rumble on, new products are launched. Even Windows experts are thinking that we will see Windows 7 by August next year. In fact in the review on the windows super site the comparison between Windows [...]
November 3, 2008 – 7:45 am
Here is a quick 3x speed video of Mark making an irpen. Feel free to comment and ask questions if you need any further help making your own. Or you can buy one by clicking on the link on this blog. If you need to see it in higher quality follow the link to you [...]
