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Why Linux still doesn’t rule the desktop market

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Mar 9, 2016 | Technology | 0 comments

2016 is a pretty special year for me. It marks 10 years since switching my default operating system to Linux from Windows. (With a small exception in 2007 when I bought a Mac and used OS X for a while before installing OpenSUSE on that too) For me, Linux based systems...

Wait for the beep!

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Feb 14, 2016 | My Life, Technology, Tutorials | 0 comments

Quite a few years ago, 2008, a few of my mates and myself were avid Family Guy fans. Often watching new episodes as soon as they were out. One of the cutaway gags on an episode entitled “Long John Peter” caught my attention. By the end of that day, I had...

Death probe (A.K.A. 240V coffee warmer) review

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Feb 1, 2016 | Entertainment, My Life, Technology | 0 comments

Ah, another fantastically dangerous device shipped direct from China.

Happy new year

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Dec 31, 2015 | My Life | 0 comments

Well, once again, it’s getting close to the final midnight of the year. I swear these years are getting shorter. Anywho, here’s to 2016. Happy new year. Cheers.

SSH Tunnelling – Bringing things a little closer to home or home a little closer to you

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Nov 15, 2015 | Technology, Tutorials | 0 comments

A few years ago, I wrote an article on how it was possible to hack into a friend’s Facebook account on public, unsecured, or poorly secured Wi-Fi, when using Facebook over an unencrypted connection. In that post, I mentioned you could tunnel your home connection...

Releasing Intacta Express – A reverse engineering story

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Sep 28, 2015 | My Life, Technology | 0 comments

Just over 15 years ago I used to watch a television programme on the BBC called Tomorrow’s World, the show focused on new and emerging technologies which could end up in our everyday lives. Famously, the humble Compact Disc was featured, and to this day,...

Extending the life of my iPod for a few more years

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Aug 4, 2015 | Music, My Life, Technology, Tutorials | 0 comments

A few years ago, I wrote an article titled “Why I’m not letting go of my 5th Generation iPod”. Just over five years on, I’m still using it, though it’s time to upgrade it despite it being almost a decade old. Repairing and modifying this...

Using Facebook Messenger on Pidgin – Revisited (API v2) [Updated]

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Jul 11, 2015 | My Life, Technology, Tutorials | 7 comments

Just over 5 years ago, I wrote a post on here showing how to connect to Facebook Chat (now rebranded as Facebook Messenger) on 3rd party Instant Messenger clients through Facebook’s XMPP endpoint. Unfortunately this relied on Facebook’s first API, which...

My first week with the Apple Watch

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Jul 5, 2015 | My Life, Technology | 0 comments

…and why the £12,000 top of the range model might actually not be such a bad investment. Ok, so I finally took the plunge last week, raided the piggy bank, and purchased an Apple Watch. Why? Simply put, I liked the idea of having important information piped...

Robert Investigates: Yet another example of dangerous electronics.

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Apr 28, 2015 | My Life, Robert Investigates, Technology | 0 comments

Oh dear, it’s that time again where Robert spends far too much time obsessing over something that should have been thrown straight in the bin. This universal travel adaptor was kindly donated by a colleague who received this with a laptop which had clearly been...

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