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As I had been doing more things with my iMac lately, from using blender, to learning iOS apps with XCode, I was finding that my computer was slowing down somewhat. At the time it only had 4G of memory, which is more than adequate for most users, however I’m special and I tend to have many windows open, and on multiple workspaces. It was time for a memory upgrade. So i went and purchased 16G (4x4G) of memory from Ramcity, (recommended by whirlpool forums) and i haven’t looked back....

I’ve recently compiled and uploaded ‘pioneer space sim – alpha25’ release of pioneer for Mac OS X. The team have been working hard and there have been quite a few changes and additions this month. The Pioneer development team are pleased to announce the release of Pioneer Alpha 25. This month has seen more visual enhancements with gas giant rings, terrains and city lighting all receiving improvements. Full changelog and builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (32 & 64-bit) are available from the download page...

Hello Internet, it’s been a month since my last update. I’ve been sick with the flu the past week or so. I have also been absorbed into playing again, but this time with the tekkit mods. These mods add a much greater level of complexity, and playing on a PvP server also adds to the fun. Hopefully there will be some more frequent updates soon as I get over this minecraft ‘addiction’ again....

This weekend my wife recently upgraded her Wacom tablet to an Intuos5 for use with her photography business. This meant that I inherited her old Wacom Intuos4. Yay! I’ve never used a tablet before, so I thought I would give it a try with using a Wacom Intuos4 tablet with blender. And what a challenge it has been. At first I struggled with getting used to the device, as when you use blender you generally need a 3 button mouse....

Today one of my scripts at work was consuming lots of memory. Turns out that Powershell doesn’t handle garbage collection very well, it only runs on the completion of a script, however if you have a script that is in a continuous loop, garbage collection will not happen. Here is a handy hint to anyone writing scripts that don’t quit on how to force Powershell garbage collection. Simply add the following line of code in your ‘leaking’ foreach or while loop...