Saturday 16 March 2013

Lincoln Heard, age 3, and his Raspberry Pi | Raspberry Pi

Meet Lincoln, who is three years old. He'd like to show you how to set up your Raspberry Pi.

Orchard

If you'd like to run Orchard on Windows Azure then you have two options. The easiest is to use a Windows Azure Website. Orchard can also be run as a Windows Azure Cloud Service and will store media files in blob storage if it's running in this mode.

CodePlex - Open Source Project Hosting

Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. You can use CodePlex to find open source software or create new projects to share with the world.

Arduino Blog " Blog Archive " A visit to the Arduino factory on DomusWeb

The entire manufacturing process (except for certain purchased components) [of Arduino boards] takes place in and around Strambino, Ivrea, in a context dominated by the small- and medium-sized companies that are typical of Italian industrial districts and of the "Made in Italy" phenomenon itself. Ivrea's history is another interesting part of the picture.

RasPlex: Plex for your Pi | Raspberry Pi

If you're a media centre user of the Raspberry Pi, you might want to check out this new port of Plex to the Pi. RasPlex is a open, platform-independent home entertainment system (so you can play media from any of the machines you have cluttering up the house using the RasPlex media server.

NASA - NASA Media Accreditation Open for Test Flight of Orbital's Antares Rocket

Media accreditation is open for a test flight of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Launch is targeted to occur between April 16-18 at approximately 3 p.m. EDT, the day of launch.

Build Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

Build Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

Changes to following caps and message ordering for Site and User Streams | Twitter Developers

Our Site Streams feed was introduced as a limited beta in August 2010. It is a powerful service which allows an application to read a stream of Tweets and social events for a set of authenticating users. With the inclusion of an optional with=followings parameter, Tweets and social events from all the users the connected user is following are also streamed.

InstantCab (YC W12) launches in San Francisco, offers more drivers, lower fare prices than Uber, Sidecar - Y Combinator Posthaven

While operating in a beta period, InstantCab already has apps for both iOS and Android. It has done more than 20,000 rides so far, and has several hundred drivers available for rides in San Francisco. When taking a traditional cab booked through the app, the price is the same as what's on the meter.

SwapBox (YC W13) launches the solution to missed deliveries at your home: an delivery kiosk coming to a neighborhood near you - Y Combinator Posthaven

You know the drill, you order something from your favorite site and you can't wait to get the package. Like a blogger normal person, you go to work and hope that the package is there when you get home.

Plutonium tests offer hope for dark space missions - space - 15 March 2013 - New Scientist

The future is looking brighter for missions to the solar system's dark corners. Plutonium needed to power the spacecraft that cannot rely on solar power has been created in the US for the first time in 25 years - albeit in small quantities.

Facebook Taps Ex-Mozilla Brain as Chief Tech Officer | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Facebook just can't stop copying Twitter. At least this week. First, it announced that it will support hashtags, and now, it's promoting its senior vice president of engineering, Mike Schroepfer, to the vacant CTO role - aping Twitter's own management shuffle. The announcement was made via an email inside the company, according to TechCrunch.

NASA - Space Station Astronauts Land Safely in Kazakhstan

HOUSTON -- Three members of the Expedition 34 crew undocked from the International Space Station and returned safely to Earth on Friday, wrapping up a mission lasting more than four and a half months. Expedition 35 now is under way.