12-03-12 Love Tech Weekly Showcase
I’ve been a busy bee Tech-blog wise, with posts about G+circles and Raspberry Pi. I’ve just pre-ordered a Raspberry Pi for Son2. I had no idea what I was ordering until I watched a video about it and it’s just bloomin’ amazing! And so cheap! If your kid wants to learn programming, it’s the way to go.
I am a little concerned though, that I may be spawning a monster once he learns how to code. I await with trepidation the knock on the door from the police telling me he’s infiltrated the MoD’s top secret alien files. Actually, hacking is no laughing matter – as Gary McKinnon and others will attest. So I’ll also be teaching him hard lessons learned by others – use your skills wisely and with common sense or you may end up with a close encounter you’d really rather not have.
Enjoy the Tech showcase!
Special Needs Jungle- If your child loves computers.. watch this video
I’ve talked a lot on this site about the need to improve IT teaching in schools, before Michael Gove announced an intention to do just that.
One great way to do this is for schools to buy the new Raspberry Pi – a credit-card basic computer that runs Linux that children can learn to code with.
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Not As Advertised- Adding a G+ Circles Badge to Blogger
Are you on Google+? See at the bottom of this post I have a G+, add to circles badge? Want one? Here’s how: 1. Go to this Google developers page. Add your Google profile id (a string of numbers) into the box. It gives you the option to click a link nest to it to autofill for you, which is handy.
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Feisty Tapas- Is your iPhone 4S texting from 2 different numbers?
A few weeks ago the user of an iPhone 4 told me that she was receiving my texts as if they were coming from a different number, she didn’t have that number in her contacts and so half of the time she didn’t know they were from me. It turned out the phone still had the temporary number registered on it, you know, the one that it came with and that I used for a few days until my old number was ported. Here is how to solve the problem.
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Dribbling Pensioner- Worlds smallest computer.
THE PI IS ABOUT THE SIZE OF A MAN’S HAND.
This has been developed to make it possible for every child in school to get one and to learn how to program a computer.
All proceeds from the project are going to charity as the circuitboard was created by volunteers headed by computer technician Eben Upton at Cambridge university in London.
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