Blender is awesome. Its a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software package used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications and/or video games. I have only just...

There are thousands(ish) of applications on Ubuntu’s Software Centre, and some can be incredibly useful, some really good games, and some which you’d never have thought existed. Here is a...

I have written an application to do most of this with a rather special USB -> TTL adapter, and would quite happily do this for a bottle of wine for anyone, but here is how I fixed my inlaw’s...

I use Spideroak for all my backups (I’ll dispense with the obligatory referral link) – http://www.spideroak.com and I wanted to use it to back up my VPS I have with CloudNext. As I use Ubuntu,...

Here’s a quickie to loop through files and convert them to MP3s: #!/bin/sh for i in *.wav; do if [ -e "$i" ]; then file=`basename "$i" .wav` ffmpeg -i "$i" "$file.mp3" ...