Some fractals...

So I said I would drop a couple fractals here, so here you go! They were all made using Apophysis 2.08 3D hack. They should all be HD and desktop resolution (1920*1200).

Adventures in RaspberryPi and fractals

Hey! So yeah, inactive for a while, again, but I have some free time so what the hell ;3 SO I've got back into fractals again, they're pretty cool, and I'm running a raspberry pi (so maybe have some fun stuff with that!) Oh yeah, Bitcoins too. Like them lots. I'll throw together a little list of sites for you too (obviously with referral for me too (Yay!)) SO yeah. Loads awesome. See you soon.

An Apology From Stevie

Well, hello there. It's your old pal, Stevie. Except I'm not Stevie anymore, I am now Matte. Hello. Anyway, gosh, it's been a while, over a year, it's gotta be over a year... Maybe over two... _{What the hell is wrong with me?} I'd like to apologise for being away so long and never posting anything. Ugh, I feel really bad about it. I have no idea who looks at this blog, or if anyone who does has actually visited it long or regularly enough to remember me at all, but I'm back.

 Hi. Smiley face.

Moving iTunes 11 to a new drive

So~

You got a shiny new hard drive for Christmas and you want to put all your iTunes library on it becasue it's ridiculously big and takes up too much time on your hard drive. Well since Apple haven't made any documentation on it yet (for iTunes 11) I'll show you.

1) Go to the preferences section([Ctrl + , ] or [Cmd + , ]), and switch "Keep iTunes Media folder organised"
2) Click ok and let it reorganise itself.
3) Go into preferences again and change the path of the "iTunes Media folder location" to your new drive (make sure you have a folder for this otherwise it goes everywhere and when you put in into a new folder iTunes won't be able to find itself)
4) Click ok again

5) Go into the "file menu" (If you can't see it anywhere, click the icon at the very top left and select "Show Menu Bar"
6) Now select "library" --> "Organise Library"
7) Select the option of "Consolidate my library" and click ok.
8) Wait as  iTunes copies your files to the right place.
9) Close down iTunes, go and delete your iTunes Media Folder (by default c:\User\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media).
10) Open iTunes which is no longer stored on your old drive!

bitCoin Mining for Beginners

Hello!

So bitCoins are this digital currency that is run on a peer to peer basis - it is essentially internet money. Over the past few days I've been reading up and mining for free bitCoins - which I'll teach you how to do here.

You will need this download for AMD graphics cards. And this one for Nvidia graphics cards.

I thought I'd tell you a little about how to set up mining for bitCoins to make money. To do so, I would recommend a decent graphics card(CPU mining will be wastefully slow, don't bother!), preferably AMD (I'm using a 6870). To get started, you have to find a "pool" to mine for, as solo mining is very risky and you are unlikely to get payouts often however if you do, they will be somewhat large. Here is a quick list of pools, my preference is Slush's Pool.

As you can see the GPU is much quicker than my I7 3770k

Slush's Pool
50BTC
BitArena

(For more pools, click here)

Once you have signed up, you'll need to download some sort of interface for mining. Here's another a list:

GUIminer - has GUI so is very user friendly and good for beginners (Windows)
CGminer - can be added onto GUIminer, is quite fast. Usually run from a console. (Windows)
RPC Miner - for Macs.

The pool you signed up for should have instructions on how to connect a worker from the mining application you just downloaded to them. The username and password are different form that on your account, so be careful! You should also make a point of looking at your settings to ensure that you have an address for the bitCoins to be sent to and that your other details are right.



Once you start mining, you will build a number of micro-payments until you reach your payout threshhold, at which point the money you've just made are paid to your account!

I hope this helped and if you have any questions please feel free to ask in the comments!