However, it lacked a key element for me - a delay. Just like on your keyboard, when you hold down a key, there is a delay before that key starts repeating itself. So I took Remy's work and modified it slightly. I also re-did the code tabbing and added some comments to explain how it works. I have a rather messy tabbed code layout - but I find it easier to see where functions open and close.

You can download my modified version here.

The Device

Fairly pretty to look at, it's light and about the same size as a phone. I can't help but feel they would have been better off making it fatter and shorter, but its curved edges means it fits into pockets nicely.

So, plug it in by USB and it's a 32GB flash drive with middling performance. Unplug it and switch it on and it becomes a wireless hotspot for accessing your content. You can then connect to this using up to three devices. It's designed with phones/tablets in...

One of my biggest regrets as a technology journalist was not going out to MWC (Mobile World Congress). I figured at some point, I'd get the opportunity and this year was it.

ThinkWall has been growing from strength to strength, and thanks to the UKTI I'm going to be running ThinkWalls on their booth (you can see the bespoke design above), as well as at the UKTJPR party on Wednesday, showing relevant twitter streams to those events.

The whole ThinkWall system is configured to run through the cloud - so that in combination with LogMeIn, allows me to look after a whole host of walls from my Xoom tablet. So I won't be breaking my back lugging around a laptop!

It does feel strange having an exhibitors pass instead of press - but I am still intending on doing some coverage of anything unique I see (I...

Possibly the best thing I managed to do (and that says a lot) is do a cover version of "Rocket Man" by Elton John, but using alternative lyrics to become "Snow Man". It's chilled out and done on acoustic guitar. My lovely house mate James Looney did the guitar work.

The lyrics, for those want to be spared of my ever diminishing vocal skills, are as follows:

Got packed from snow last night, pretty tight
A bunch of kids, maybe twelve or ten
And I came to life, thanks to them
A carrot for a nose and a bowler hat
A scarf not...

I've been lecturing part-time at Ravensbourne College and being on the O2 - you have to use their O2's car park facilities. At £10 a day, I've started parking a 10 minute cycle away and flinging a bike in the back of the car. I managed to build myself a fixie out of spare...

It is now November and I still don't have my central heating turned on. This is the first time I've lived in a flat - and a poorly converted one at that (although very nice, and very big). Right now I'm getting enough heat from the flat below, and in some ways the flat above (think about it) that my flat is at a rather comfortable temperature. In fact - I'm actually getting a little too warm at night!

Granted -...

So the right piece finally started cutting in and out often enough that I had to do something about it. Anyone with a keen memory will remember me repairing these previously by attacking them with a scalpel, resoldering and then gluing together. It really wasn't the neatest of mods and as it turns out - could have been avoided because the unit can actually be opened up.

I apologise now for taking these photos on my phone. They looked fine on screen, but...

For those who own a pair of E4Cs - don't do it this way - instead...

So Ubuntu 11.10 came out this month and figured I'd have a play as I'd heard that Unity was seriously improved.

I was previously running 11.04 and the upgrade wouldn't work for me. Not only that, but it gave me an error message that didn't help me at all - merely that it couldn't find an upgrade path. No "see this log" or "these packages are causing the issues", instead "E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks". Mats Lindh offered up a solution to his problem which didn't work for me.

So I decided I may as well do a reinstall. One of the nice things about keeping most of my important stuff on my file server, and the rest in the cloud is that doing a reinstall is usually pretty painless.

However, like all good boys I did make a backup. I booted up to the Ubuntu USB stick, mounted my file server and...

As well as the mailing list, there are "social" events organised, as well as official KLUG Meets. Strangely, I've not been able to attend a social, but I have been to several of the meets. Rather than a squabble of geek talk (not that I object to this) there is a structure to each meet, usually a talk put on by one of the members on a topic that the rest of the group felt had a global appeal,...

I've even read reports of people having their financial information stolen as a result of it. Anyway, this is the only page that actually seemed to discuss it in depth >> http://www.squidoo.com/google-redirect-virus-removalz

Has anyone else experienced this yet?

For a long time I've been struggling by with the Toshiba provided drivers for my AMD/ATI graphics chipset dating from 2008. I understand that Toshiba didn't sign up with AMD for driver support. When trying to install newer drivers from AMD's website the installer told me to contact Toshiba for newer drivers.

I found this thread where somebody has posted a link to a driver installer that doesn't seem to care that I have a Toshiba machine. Obviously installing software downloaded from a file-sharing site is a stupid thing to do but with no updates coming from Toshiba I had little choice. I took all the precautions I could so I...

I am very picky about what software I choose, as I feel they should be available on both Windows and Linux platforms. Open Source should be about choice, and that includes the choice to run Windows. I don't...

The sound quality is very good, but the biggest disappointment is the delay - I can't listen to myself through the headphones whilst I'm singing because there is around a 240ms delay - by my trial and error calculations.

Another project I've been working on, was talking about doing a viral song - using the Avenue Q "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" as a base for the parody. So, whilst slightly bored with doing voiceover and wanting to test out the adapter - I did the first verse of the song in a couple of takes. The hardest...

A couple of weeks ago I was reading about reflow soldering, and was putting an order into Farnell. I picked a 1500W heat gun up for around £11 thinking that at some point I'd get to use it. I mentioned this Karl and as it turned out - he still had his laptop, so bought it around.

In hind sight - I probably should have watched more YouTube videos in advance - but I knew the principle and just went at it alone. I had a spare graphics card that was broken and decided to use this to experiment on - after all - we had no idea how long it would take for the solder to...

After hearing about my friend Rich Trenholm's surgery going so well, I started wondering if it might be for me. Somehow, I saw an advert for Optical Express, and put my details in for them to get in touch. I must admit, they went a little overboard - I got a *lot* of phone calls and being an 0870 number, when I missed the call, I wasn't exactly motivated to call them back, so I just waited for the next call, which thankfully wasn't too long.

Optical Express offered me a free consultation, and I thought...

I think Max speaks for all of us, when he says "Ho Ho Ho - Merry Christmas".

I stepped into the realm of real smart phones late this past summer. I purchased a Samsung Epic 4G. Also known as a member of the Galaxy S lineup. The screen is incredible and using it is just fun. I have less and less need for my desktop PC. I can do almost anything on the phone that I do with my desktop. There are some exceptions, but for general use, it works great. The physical keyboard helps but composing email and text messages with swype (or whatever Samsung calls there version of the app) is just so easy!

Any Android users here? What are your favorite apps?

I'll start:

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The property has just been completely refurbished - brand new boiler, kitchen, carpets etc. It's got a nice little driveway and garage (currently renting one externally - so that's a money saver), garden and my office will be the biggest I've had to date!

It almost feels too nice a property. Somehow my furniture just won't feel good enough to be seen in it! I'm sure I'll find a way to smarten things up...

I'm going for a...

So first, create a new file in /etc/init.d - I'll call mine SpodeVM. I personally do this in an terminal using nano, but you could use gEdit. Remember that you'll need root privileges to write to that folder, so "sudo nano /etc/init.d/SpodeVM".

Inside the file, you'll want the following. Change "spode" for the user that your VirtualBox VM is owned by, and change "My VM Name" for the...

You can read the awards for yourself on their website. I'm currently using Virgin 50Mbit and it wins "Fastest Broadband" without a sweat. It's the only broadband I've ever had that gives you *more* than what they quote, rather than less. It's also nice to see a hat tip to Three having the best value mobile broadband - another company really trying to push broadband in Britain forward. BT winning an award for Innovation though? They have to be the least innovative company I can think of..

I see a fair few celebs whilst out and about at press events and very few of them do I ever bother to talk to. Top10 was an exception...

Finally, after constant hounding, I got an MRI. While waiting for the results, I decided to take some time off the bike to see if it helped. I've been off for 2 months and although it's better, it's not perfect. Finally, I went to see the consultant today and he concluded that the tendon itself was fine, but rather it was the infrapatellar fat pad (sometimes known as Hoffa's pad) that was damaged. He felt this was in fact irritating the tendon, causing symptoms of tendonitis.

So what's the plan? I'm having key-hole surgery where...

As Dave is leaving Think Bikes, leaving me in charge - I decided a bit of a revamp was in order and had a new logo designed. This is what we came up with (in this image, we were experimenting with some different colours...).

Certainly it's a lot more lively than the current logo, which is thinkbikes.com in Tahoma But whilst we were there I mentioned I had an idea for a t-shirt. 5 minutes later, the design was sitting in front of me!

I spent a while researching various print on demand t-shirt companies and found that spreadshirt.co.uk had the best pricing...