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Sep/09

Energy@Home Released On Google Code

Filed Under energy@home, Software at 8th September 2009 22:40 by

I have formally uploaded and started using Google Code to host my energy monitor I’m using / developing. It has been released under the GPL license so feel free to take a look at my messy code and leave some … Continue reading →

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Aug/09

Recording CurrentCost Data & Viewing It On The Web

Filed Under Linux, Software, Website at 16th August 2009 18:20 by

Overview I have (finally) got my project to a working stage so I thought I’d write a bit about it. After buying a CurrentCost CC128 device I was not happy with the software on the Internet for extracting the data. … Continue reading →

06

Jul/09

My Alternative Free Software On Windows

Filed Under Software at 6th July 2009 0:01 by

Overview Here are my picks for free software on Windows (currently Windows 7). Free and open source (two different licenses applied to software) have come a long way and have come to replace my ageing proprietary and non-free applications. I … Continue reading →

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Feb/09

GNU Screen In Linux

Filed Under Linux, Software at 23rd February 2009 0:01 by

Overview Screen is a handy terminal application which runs on top of Linux terminal itself. This means allows you to create sessions with in a terminal and each session are self contained. A feature that I use of screen is … Continue reading →

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Dec/08

Enabling Remote Access To MySQL

Filed Under Linux, Networking, Software at 28th December 2008 16:29 by

I recently set up a virtual machine with Linux running on it to test stuff out. I ran into the issue which I have solved many times when I had installed my server at home which has a LAMP set … Continue reading →

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Sep/08

Crusade To Find A Desktop Calendar

Filed Under Review, Software at 23rd September 2008 14:46 by

Overview I have been looking for a desktop calendar application for some time now. The one that has worked for me was Lightning, a Mozilla Thunderbird addon which is also a standalone application called Mozilla Sunbird. I have wanted to … Continue reading →

30

Jul/08

TweetStats

Filed Under Review, Software at 30th July 2008 14:16 by

TweetStats is a website which generates graphs of your Twitter statistics. It has a web 2.0 feel and is really interesting to see which client you tweet from the most to what times of the day you tweet most. It … Continue reading →

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May/08

What Is OpenID

Filed Under Software at 14th May 2008 1:05 by

Toby had sent me a link on how to make your own website your OpenID page but he has yet to write up his experience *hint* *hint*. Whilst I have heard of OpenID I thought not to dabble in the … Continue reading →