Speak Easy: A Guide To Wireless Speakers

Prick up your ears to Mark Oakley ’s guide to going wireless

The first single I ever purchased was Bon Jovi’s ‘Lay Your Hands On Me’. On the cover, Jon Bon Jovi showed off his long, flowing locks like a peacock displays its feathers. This was one proud rocker, and I was a very proud young boy for having bought it – with my own money, no less.

Raspberry Pi CamJam EduKits

David Briddock explains why CamJam EduKits are perfect for novice hardware hackers

Jam events are packed with people having fun with Raspberry Pi technology, albeit fun with a heavy educational flavour. Attend one of these events, and you can’t help but be impressed by the possibilities and drawn in by the high levels of enthusiasm and innovation.

However, there’s a perennial problem: working out how to get started. To overcome this hurdle, the CamJam organisation has launched a series of educational Pi kits, which offer an affordable, easy-to-understand introduction to hardware hacking.

Is Anything More Hateful Than ‘Read Receipts’?

Sarah Dobbs reckons technology has tried to solve a problem that didn’t exist with read receipts – and created a new one in the process

If there was ever a question that didn’t really need to be asked, it’s “did you get my email?” Of course they got your email... Maybe once, back in the early days of the internet or when spam filters were less selective than they are now, there was a vague possibility that your email might’ve gone walkabout or end up sitting in someone’s junk mail, unnoticed. But that really doesn’t happen very often any more. When we ask “did you get my email?”, what we’re really asking is “could you please actually reply to my email?” or “can you do the thing I asked you to do in my email, now or sooner, because I’m getting impatient?”

What To Do If Your Account Is Hacked (And How You Can Protect Yourself)

As more and more people fall victim to online hackers, David Crookes look at the defensive steps you need to take

Barely a week goes by these days without some sort of hacking story emerging in the news. Recently, there have been major security breaches at some of the best-known online companies across the world – from Sony, to Dropbox, to Ashley Madison – and all of them have led to disruption on some scale. Whether hacked accounts simply force users to subsequently change their passwords, or cause a major leak of information and prompt a major overhaul of the back-end system of the affected service, hacking leads to inconvenience and at worse loss of money and privacy.

Penarium

Clowning around in the cirque du slaughter

This frantic platformer bears comparison to some of the indie greats of recent years. In terms of core mechanics, Dutch developer Self Made Miracle has taken its cues from arcade gem Super Crate Box, recreating that game’s compulsive blend of speedy 2D traversal and panicky high-score chasing, and in multiplayer, it evokes the pace and tension of a heated Towerfall tournament. Those are some lofty comparisons, to be sure, but it almost stands shoulder to shoulder with these 2D titans. Almost.