John Coles - Blog
My thought on the world, well technology but really that is the world.
The Wirecaster
So I am planning on building the computer pictured above. The first iteration will only have 2 capture cards but over time I will add all 8. Here is a list of everything that will be used:
- Casecom KB-7720BK Black ATX Midi Tower Case
- Casecom 400W 12cm Fan PSU - 20+4pin 1x SATA 4x Molex
- Asrock M3A UCC AMD 480X Socket AM3 6 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard
- AMD Athlon II X4 640 Socket AM3 3GHz 2MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor
- Palit GT 430 1GB DDR3 DVI VGA HDMI Out PCI-E Graphics Card
- Kingston 2GB DDR3 1066MHz i5 Memory Module CL7 1.5V
- 8 x Roxio Capture Cards
All of the above is available from ebuyer.com (that is where I am going to buy it). I shall update this post as I raise money and get all of the components together.
Money raised so far: £16.64
Terminal capacity
Picture sourced from w3.org via Google Images
When will the mobile phone networks reach their maximum number of subscribers? The correct answer is never. You see the way I phrased that question was about the current and future mobile networks, not just the current ones.
Currently the number of people using what used to be extra (sometimes un-heard of) services like mobile Internet, Blackberry Messenger Services, POP3 email, IMAP4 email maybe even video calling is on the rise. In the UK alone the number of people using voice is decreasing and the number of people accessing the Internet via mobile devices has increased exponentially. There are only really two factors that have made this happen.
Allow, or don’t allow?
So as you can see above, there are some apps on Facebook promising such things as:
- Telling you how many hours you have spent on Facebook.
- Telling you who your “stalkers” are.
- Seeing a story about a “major” news story.
But is that really what they are offering?
Valentines Day.
Otherwise known as the release day of “The Social Network”. Watching it really appeals to me and really inspires me to code and blog at the same time. Talking of which I am currently working on the site me and Harry Wells are working on.
Will keep you up to date!
The Apple iPad as a “computer”.
A quickly edit picture of the iPad to look like a “real computer” running OS X.
Having used my iPad for nearly a whole day as a “computer” I can say that it can keep up with the majority of the things that I wanted to. As a licensed Apple Developer I am of course running iOS 4.2 allowing me to multi task and run apps like Skype in the background. The only thing that really annoys me is the fact that whilst it acts and can be used as a “computer” it isn’t really.
