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technology posts

Slow news day huh, but i found print screen on a macbook pro for win 7(bootcamp) woot!

Posted on April 17, 2011 11:39 pm by lartens

Yeah folks it was genius, i searched google haha. The problem with the macbook pro is that f keys run out at 12, and print screen is something like 13 on regular keyboards. So where is the magic to make … Continue reading →

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New Commodore Style Computers, Yes Please :D

Posted on April 7, 2011 7:49 pm by lartens

If you’re the kind of person who actually reads this blog, then you are more than aware that Commodore are the mac daddy home computers of the 1980’s. From the vic 20 to the Amiga 1200, these were prosperous times … Continue reading →

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Adding new menu to WordPress theme to be customised by the admin

Posted on April 3, 2011 9:11 pm by lartens

So a friend messages me about custom navigation that can be edited within the Content Management System(CMS) of wordpress and not hard coded into the website template. Of course i’ve only done a little in wordpress and php but this … Continue reading →

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The Lynx Effect gets Augmented

Posted on March 19, 2011 2:17 pm by lartens

Last week at London Victoria train station. Lynx, the body deodriant company, set up an augmented reality feed to one of the big screens in the station. Augemted reality is basically a super imposing image/data/video as an overlay to live … Continue reading →

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Veronica Belmont goes geocaching. Beware the muggles

Posted on March 19, 2011 1:15 am by lartens

We here at GrigOrig occasionally do some geocahing ourselves, and are sometimes beaten insane with the simple ones we just can’t find (hey Big B) hehe. Clearly what we need is to enlist the help of seasoned geocacher Lee Van … Continue reading →

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She call me Mr BomBastic say me fantastic

Posted on March 17, 2011 10:18 pm by lartens

Ok, so this post has nothing to do with shaggy and his 90’s hit, and yes its spelt wrong anyway. The point here is that certain web files for this site were saved using regular notepad on a windows machine, … Continue reading →

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unreal engine 3 is epic hehe

Posted on March 10, 2011 5:15 pm by lartens

So last week at the game developer conference (GDC) epic showcased 2 minutes of samaritan, this is not a game, but an unveiling of some awesome new developments in what the unreal engine 3 can do utilizing directx11, apparently this … Continue reading →

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integers, doubles, floats and tinys. notch gets technical

Posted on March 9, 2011 11:54 pm by lartens

For those who don’t know, Markus Persson otherwise known as notch, is the lead developer of minecraft. What originally started as just one man coding in java, has now become a small development team bringing joy to the masses with … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs didn’t want to miss out on the ipad 2 event.

Posted on March 2, 2011 7:50 pm by lartens

So today is the day the ipad 2 gets it’s little event over in san francisco. Jobs is there to gloat over how little the copy cat tablets are catching up to the first ipad. And now the ipad 2 … Continue reading →

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Microsoft research is doing some interesting things

Posted on February 28, 2011 11:39 pm by lartens

Well boys, this video was out days ago but things are slow at cassa de lartens. But this video has some very interesting works in rogrss for using cameras like the kinect for tracking and some other fandangled technology for … Continue reading →

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