April 9, 2018 geek Netflix Genre Codes All Netflix Category Codes Here’s the complete list of all the codes, so you can search to your heart’s content! http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/### Categories broken out for children based upon age: Movies for ages 0 to 2: 6796 Movies for ages 2 to 4: 6218 Movies for ages 5 to 7: 5455 Movies for ages 8 to 10: 561… Read more By spr
November 23, 2017 geek teaching tech Animations (using SWF) inside latest Prezi Classic The biggest bugbear of using Prezi at the moment is, besides the rubbish Prezi Next which they seem keen to push at the expense of an otherwise excellent Classic is the lack of animated loops. When they dropped the flash player, they dropped support for .swf files and they absolutely refuse, despite repeated user requests from users (and… Read more By spr
October 4, 2017 geek tech Missed the Windows 10 Free upgrade? – Fret Not. Like many, I took advantage of the free upgrade from the awful Windows 8.x to Windows 10, but the time of that free upgrade has passed. If like me, you sometimes have to "powerwash" (to use a Chromebook phrase) a machine, but it was originally Windows 7 or 8 you might feel stuck without an… Read more By spr
September 13, 2017 geek tech Webpage Screenshots to Animated GIFs I love an animated GIF... whether it's a currently hot meme, or a classic quote or just an illustration which is better animated, then the moving, repeated image is king. The wonderful Fr Eddie Green uses them extensively in his Worshpr toolkit. Creating them from scratch (as opposed to just simply downloading them) used to… Read more By spr
June 29, 2017 geek Some of my favourite films A few years ago (2013) I listed the Albums which I felt had shaped me as a person: not necessarily the best albums but the ones which shaped me see https://www.frsimon.uk/my-favourite-albums-of-all-time/ My son, Liam, mentioned that he had been compiling his own list of movies, and so it set me thinking. Here is my list (in… Read more By spr
June 28, 2017 geek inclusive Rainbow Cross. Use Freely. I've been working on this graphic in photoshop, and although I got (eventually) the thing I wanted, I'm still not clear how I got there. Use freely. To save, Right-Click and select "Save As..." or "Save Image As..." depending on your browser. This is the chunky version (641px x 802 transparent png) and this… Read more By spr
December 26, 2016 geek tech iPlayerGUI Version 2 – a nicer way to download and keep BBC TV from iPlayer I love to use the get_iplayer app to record and keep my favourite Programmes, after all, my licence fee has paid for them. Unfortunately, it's interface is text only and that can be a little intimidating for some, so a couple of years ago, I wrote a GUI front end for it in the AutoIT… Read more By spr
October 19, 2016 geek tech Animated / looping images inside Prezi Prezi, thankfully, still supports animations, but not as we now know and love them. With one simple step, however, you can insert animated gifs and take other short movies and insert them into your Prezi presentation to liven them up. Although Prezi does not support animated gifs (yet, hint, hint) you can easily convert these… Read more By spr
September 29, 2016 geek tech 2017 Electric Ordo released FREE – all I ask for is your prayers (PRAYERWARE) Download Download the Zip Files file (from my public dropbox folder) Right click on the above link and select “SAVE AS..” or “SAVE TARGET AS…” or “SAVE LINK AS..” 2017: As the amount of data included continues to increase, the file is too large to import as a single year/file, so this year for the first… Read more By spr
May 24, 2016 geek tech Increasing internal storage on LG G3 (D855) using the SD Card It's a great phone, and I have no regrets about choosing it over the Samsung or the Sony at the time (I played with all three side-by-side), but that was some time ago and now 16Gb of internal storage is frankly a little light. Of course you can add an SD Card for additional storage… Read more By spr