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James Bruce

Hardware Reviews Editor

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About James Bruce

James has a BSc in Artificial Intelligence and is CompTIA A+ and Network+ certified. When he's not busy as Hardware Reviews Editor, he enjoys LEGO, VR, and board games. Before joining MakeUseOf, he was a lighting technician, English teacher, and data center engineer.

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A Guide To Setting Up Your Own Podcast Website & Feed Using Wordpress & Podpress

I recently had the opportunity to become part of a podcast which I’m sure you’ll hear about soon enough - and it's all fairly new ground for me. As the only one with enough bandwidth to host, and clearly the most experienced of the group in Wordpress ninja-ship, I also took it upon myself to setup the necessary protocols that make an actual podcast, as opposed to being just audio files posted on a blog.

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First Steps With The Arduino: A Closer Look At The Circuit Board & The Structure Of A Program

Last time I left you having set up your Arduino to work with Mac or Windows, and having uploaded a simple test app that blinked the on-board LED. Today I’m going to explain the code you uploaded, the structure of Arduino software, and a little more about the electronic bits on the board itself.

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Getting Started With Your Arduino Starter Kit - Installing Drivers & Setting Up The Board & Port

So, you’ve bought yourself an Arduino starter kit, and possibly some other random cool components - now what? How do you actually get started with programming this Arduino thing? How do you set it up and upload some code? Read on and I'll explain all. I’m going to assume you have an Arduino Uno board.

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5 Alternative Options To Satiate Black Friday Consumer Desires

It’s always struck me as rather odd that immediately after a day of giving thanks for the richness we have in our lives (a holiday that even a Brit like I can appreciate), why do we need to go out and buy more? Unlike most holidays, Black Friday doesn't have a rich history - it was invented by retailers to take advantage of consumers.

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8 More Cool Components For Your Arduino Projects

So, you're thinking about getting an Arduino starter kit, but wondering if some basic LEDs and resistors is going to be enough to keep you busy for the weekend? Probably not. Here are another 8 cool electronic components you might want to just add to your basket, along with some great ideas for what you could do with them.

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What’s Included In An Arduino Starter Kit? [MakeUseOf Explains]

I have previously introduced the Arduino open-source hardware here on MakeUseOf, but you’re going need more than just the actual Arduino to build something out of it and actually get started. Arduino "starter kits" are bundles of common but useful electronic components you can use to make a good number of beginner projects, but what exactly does a starter kit usually consist of?

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Which Programming Language to Learn - Web Programming

Today we're going to take a look at the various web programming languages that power the Internet. This is the fourth part in a beginners programming series. In part 1, we learnt the basic of variables and datatypes. In part 2, we moved onto functions and control structures. In part 3, we had a look at some of the numerous software programming languages.

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Which Programming Language Should You Learn For Software Development?

When starting on the path of programming, it’s important you invest your time wisely in choosing to learn something that will both benefit you in the immediate future with visible results on your platform of choice, as well as getting you set up for any future languages. Your choice will depend upon a number of factors, so let’s take a look at their characteristics, ease of learning, and likelihood of earning you a living.

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4 Technologies That Could Change the World

Right now is such an exciting time to be alive, as science and technology hurtles humanity forward at such incredible rates. Who would've thought ten years ago that we'd have one touch access to all the information in the world, on our phones!? At this rate, what are we going to see in another ten years? With any luck, it'll be one or more of these four incredible technologies.

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The Absolute Basics Of Programming For Beginners (Part 2)

In part 2 of our absolute beginners guide to programming, I'll be covering the basics of functions, return values, loops and conditionals. Make sure you’ve read part 1 before tackling this, where I explained the concepts of variables and datatypes. You won't need to do any actual programming yet - this is all still theoretical and language-independent.

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Windows 8 Branded PCs Could Prevent Other Operating Systems From Being Installed

"Secure Boot" is a new Windows 8 technology that’s required of OEM computers if they are to feature the Windows 8 Compatibility Logo. It's designed to protect against malware at the boot level by preventing ‘unauthorised’ code from launching during system boot. However it’s been revealed that it may also prevent non Windows 8 operating systems - such as Linux - from being able to install or run.

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10 Essential First Steps When Starting A Wordpress Blog

Having created quite a few blogs, I'd like to think that I have a good system down for those essential first steps, and I hope it can be of use to you too. By following these you'll get a good head start in the world of blogging and hopefully an influx of traffic to give you the motivation to carry on. If you've already started, think of this as a checklist as I'm sure there's a few you haven't done yet.

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The Basics Of Computer Programming 101 - Variables And DataTypes

Having introduced and talked a little about Object Oriented Programming before and where its namesake comes from, I thought it's time we go through the absolute basics of programming in a non-language specific way. This is the kind of stuff computer science majors learn in the first term, and I’m aiming this at people with absolutely zero experience in programming.

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4 Tech Predictions for the Next Few Years

I’d like to think that after being immersed daily in the technology industry for years now, I can tell when a trend has begun and generally how things are likely to pan out - so these are my personal predictions for Windows, tablets PCs, mobiles, gaming - over the course of the next few years.

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The OnLive Cloud Gaming Revolution - A Faster, Easier Way To Game

OnLive is a cloud gaming service that presents a truly unique way to access your favorite games. No longer are you forced to constantly upgrade - instead, you run the games in the cloud, and stream them to your PC, Mac, iPad, Android or TV. It’s truly incredible technology, and well worth a download and giving it a go.

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How To Turn Wordpress Into A Life Stream Of All Your Online Blogs

For most of us, the amount of digital content we produce is staggering - Twitter, personal blogs, professional blogs - but bringing all of that in to one central place is a real challenge. Having recently purchased my own vanity domain of jamesbruce.me to act as a central hub for my articles and web content, the task fell upon me to find a suitable way to aggregate it all - commonly called a life stream.

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5 Things You Might Not Have Known You Could Do With Wordpress

Being the most versatile blogging system ever, it’s no surprise that developers have twisted and pulled Wordpress into becoming so much more through the clever use of plugins. If you thought Wordpress was only for blogging, think again. Here’s 5 others ways you can use the Wordpress system, with free and premium choices where available.

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5 Easy Ways to Remove Windows Bloat on Your PC

It’s a fact of life for most Windows users that as the weeks go by with a PC in regular use, things just start to accumulate, the OS becomes more bloated and everything just seems to take forever to run. Personally, I just format the whole thing and start again - but for most people I realise that might not be a practical solution. So what are some way to trim the fat, reduce the bloat, and have Windows running at top form again?

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Fritzing - The Ultimate Tool For Sketching Out Electronics Projects [Cross Platform]

Despite sounding like an alcopop, Fritzing is actually an incredible bit of free software you can use to create circuit and component diagrams for use with rapid-prototyping electronics boards such as the fantastic open-source Arduino. As such, it’s open source, entirely cross platform and well supported - you can almost guarantee that it can be used on any Arduino project to show you how to wire things together using it.

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How To Set Up Your FreeNAS Server To Access Your Files From Anywhere

FreeNAS is a free, open source BSD-based operating system that can turn any PC into a rock-solid file server. Today I’m going to walk you through a basic installation, setting up a simple file share, and setting things up so you can access your files from anywhere over the Internet using the encrypted secure FTP over SSH option.

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