Unlock Moodle Potential

One of the effects of the latest flu pandemic is that a school can be shut down at anytime.  Our particular school policy states that we will provide materials online while students are away so that they may continue with their studies.  Unfortunately in a practical based subject that is a little difficult and rather [...]

Everlong

I downloaded the guitar tab (sheet music for guitar) for “Everlong” by the Foo Fighters about 2 years ago now.  It’s one of those songs that I love, especially the acoustic version, but every time I try and play it I put it back in the “too hard basket”.  It also happens to be one [...]

iPhone Heaven

I am the last one on the team to get the iPhone and I am very pleased with it. I have been using the iPod touch for a few months but feel like I have been missing out on 3G data and GPS goodness. Of course my Nokia N95 did both of those [...]

iMac 17inch hdd install made easy with youtube

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 [...]

Mobilising TEK

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 [...]

Google Gems

If Google are trying to take over the world they are not doing a bad job.  They have just added video and audio chat to their gmail interface.  Now they have my face and voice information along with my videos (youtube), family pics (picassa), email (gmail), business plan (google docs) and a detailed profile of [...]

Making the TEK irpen for wiiboard

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 [...]

Use N95 3G data with iPod Touch

I have been trying to figure this out for a while to connect my laptop to my phones 3G connection.  The tethered solutions seemed overly complicated requiring the installation of multiple applications, Kelvin had managed to get it working on his N95 but it was a pretty painful process.
Then I remembered hearing about turning your [...]

Video conversion with DownloadHelper

Please be aware that with the updates of downloadhelper you now have the ability to convert as well as download. Follow the link below for further instructions.
DownloadHelper’s primary job is to retrieve to your disk the videos that are playing in Web pages, in their original format.
Unfortunately, the native format generally FLV is often not [...]

Zen and the art of the Virtualisation

Well Xen anyway!!…..One for the System Admins or anybody else who has overall responsibility for the systems at a workplace/school.
I love it when a plan comes together!!!. A few months ago Arron from Totali convinced me to throw caution to the wind and virtualise a number of our servers into one ‘box’. Lots has been [...]

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