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Screen Video Capture of non-rooted Android Tablet

My Android Tablet is NOT ROOTED, but I needed to capture some video of the screen footage from my son’s Pocket Minecraft based project. The Google Play store appears to have stacks of apps which will...

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Practical Responsive Images with PictureFill (#1)

Thanks to the work of the Responsive Images Community Group and key supporters, the industry is gaining considerable momentum towards implementing the <picture> element and the srcset attribute....

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Practical Responsive Images – Crop to point of interest

Following on from yesterday’s Practical Responsive Images post, the next example use of the < picture > element (and using Picturefill), is to apply a point-of-interest crop to an image to...

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Azure Like It : Getting started with Microsoft Azure Websites

A current pet project runs on IIS, and having found too many restrictions with the IIS instance on my shared hosting accounts I needed to look for alternatives. Digital Ocean and Linode are great...

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Healthy Working : Standing-Desk Edition

Are you sitting comfortably? … I hope that you won’t be for long. At the start of the year I decided to make a concerted effort to work in a more health conscious manner. No gym promises, or exercise...

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WordPress Migration

This post is only on the new location for the ALL BS site – seeing it means that the migration was successful…. and actually surprisingly painless. I used the “all-in-one WordPress Migration” plugin.:...

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Tate Worlds : reimagined in Minecraft

The Tate have been working on an amazing project to create virtual environments inspired by some of the artworks from their collection, in a most wonderful way – through Minecraft. You can read more...

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Reclaiming my MacBook Pro’s hard drive space

I must confess that I don’t keep a firm track of my storage use on my Mac hard drive. As a family we take a lot of photos and videos, but as much as I regularly curate our photos and move the bulk of...

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You can’t manage what you don’t measure

As you may have read my previous posts on healthy working, I have been endeavouring to better manage some of my day-to-day lifestyle habits. When it came to general activity levels, it was the data...

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Practical Responsive Images : Book

The power of images isn’t just about improving website conversion. They can transport us. Sometimes in space, sometimes in time, often in perspective. I was still teaching Physics back in 1997, at a...

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Lean Startup

“Minimum Viable Products are optimized for learning, not scaling.” “while you decide what’s Minimum, the customer determines if it is Viable” “Customer discovery never stops” Great article on Lean...

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Syndicating WordPress posts to Medium : Test

As you may have read Medium recently released their publishing API, making it easier to post content to Medium. IFTTT has subsequently added a connector for Medium, so it is possible to setup a...

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Be A Better Me

At the top-centre of the whiteboard in my home-office is my current prime theme. It is intended to be short, mantra-like, and the broader perspective to which my other activities and goals should...

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Assert Your Freedom of Attention

This week’s Breaking Borders had two superb talks, one from Christopher Murphy the other by James Williams. While there is no way I can do them justice, I wanted to jot down some snippets from their...

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Anchor: near-real-time threaded audio discussion

There’s a relatively new social network called Anchor.fm focused on asynchronous audio conversations. You record a short audio clip (max. 2 mins) which gets published as a ‘wave’. Other Anchor users,...

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