Technical writings and other creative content produced by
Andy Thomas.
Video Media
Latest Video
Big Angry Dog Software
DreamCalc Windows Calculator
An introduction to the DreamCalc Scientific Calculator, including
demonstration of its graphing capabilities.
Asteroid Cresta
Demo of a fast-paced Asteroids style game, which was as development exercise
with Nokia's QT framework. Asteroid Cresta is open source and can be downloaded
from BigAngryDog.com.
Creative Content
CURIOSITY - Nasa Mars Rover
Highlights from the stunning mission animation of "Curiosity" - NASA's new one
tonne Mars Rover which is set to reach the Red Planet in 2012. The video is
set to excepts of "Mars, Bringer of War" and "Uranus, The Magician" from
Holst's Planet Suite.
Return of Common Sense
Microsoft made a major change to Windows Explorer in Vista. Did you notice?
Is Windows Hiding Your File Extensions?
In this article, Andy Thomas argues that the practice of hiding filename extensions from Windows users is confusing and dangerous.
He explains how to disable this feature and, by doing so, how it will help to protect you from certain kinds of security threats.
Battling an Addiction to Google
My name is Andy and I am a Googleholic. When I started doing Google, I just did
the occasional search now and then. It was OK at first, and I thought I could control it...
Security
Wipe Your Hard-disk to Avoid Identity Fraud
Unless the underlying data on the hard-disk was effectively destroyed by overwriting, it is
trivially easy to recover files that the PC's previous owner thought they deleted.
(First published on BigAngryDog.com).
Earth's Planetary Ring System & Meddling with the Night Sky
Could we build our very own planety ring system for Earth? For those of us with cavalier attitude to meddling with
the heavens, there's a much easier way we could improve on the night sky.
Cosmic Latte - The Color of the Universe
Cosmic Latte is the name given to the average color of universe, which I came across recently on Nasa's Astronomy
Picture of the Day. I wondered, rather pointlessly perhaps, what would its RGB code value be?
How I Built a Robot at School
I was going through some old magazines recently when I came across a couple of issues of "Practical Robotics" from the 1980s.
I was a kid back then and reading through these reminded me of how I'd built my very own robot for a school technology project.
