Yay! Blade fixed!
I finally received the part I broke on my Blade heli, I couldnt find a model shop which kept it in stock so I had to wait for it to come from a supplier 
I put it in yesterday and had a few quick flights, all seems well again, which is good news. Jenny took a little video of it flying, which is below. Keeping something so small and fast moving in focus and in the viewfinder is non trivial!
Sunset, rooftops, crane
New Toy
Having recently seen one of these flying I thought I’d try one for myself. Good fun, until you break it Spare bits en-route however! More info here.
AirPrint for iOS on Linux
I quite often used to find myself wanting to print from my iPad, so when Apple announced AirPrint I thought things were looking good. According to the press release you would need either a HP printer or you could print to a shared printer on an existing mac. Sorted, I’ve got the latter of those, things were looking rosy.
Things took a turn for the worse when I read that they had pulled support for printing via shared printers and were only going to allow AirPrint to certain (at the moment only HP) printers. I wanted the feature, but not enough to replace my trusty Lexmark.
Luckily there are people like this guy on the internet who took the time to figure out how it works and have since published a nice simple guide about how to setup a Linux box as a AirPrint server. Mainly thanks to Cups and some Avahi magic.
Sorted! And I’ve used it sufficiently to think spending an hour or so setting it up was worth while.
