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Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams

Posted on February 21, 2010 by spgennard

Well Done Amy! – The picture is from Boston.com see link below: Amy Williams of Great Britain and Northern Ireland eyes the track ahead in the women’s skeleton run 2 on day 7 of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics on … Continue reading →

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Reflection and COBOL

Posted on February 13, 2010 by spgennard

For the last couple of months I have working on Visual Studio 2010 and this include Microsoft CLR v4 and I was recently asked how to write a test that determines at runtime which CLR is being used and what … Continue reading →

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Aperture 3 and Olympus EP-1

Posted on February 13, 2010 by spgennard

As someone who really like Apple hardware and software I was extremely disapointed to find that the newly released Aperture 3 from Apple does not support Olympus EP-1 raw files.. All you get is… Come on Apple please sort it … Continue reading →

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iRiver Story – Fonts

Posted on February 2, 2010 by spgennard

The iRiver Story allows the user to install their own fonts, these fonts can truetype fonts (ones with the .ttf extensions). To install the fonts, connect  your iRiver Story device via your USB cable, then select mount/drive etc.. Then browse … Continue reading →

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Manual for British Gas RC Plus Thermostat

Posted on January 29, 2010 by spgennard

I recently tried to find our manual for our “British Gas RC Plus Termostat” on the internet as we have lost our original manual. Anyway, after some research, I found they British Gas just re-badged them from Drayton Digistat and … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition

Posted on January 27, 2010 by spgennard

Microsoft have just updated the “Application Architecture”.  I can’t say I have read it from cover to cover but it is being downloaded to my ebook reader… Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition The guide helps you to: Understand the … Continue reading →

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Olympus E-P1 Firmware Update to version 1.2

Posted on January 21, 2010 by spgennard

My life seems to full of firmware updates, yesterday it was my iRiver Story ebook reader.. today I see my Olympus E-P1 camera which has been updated. To update you use the “Olympus Master 2” program, connect the cable from … Continue reading →

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Scripting Languages and COBOL

Posted on January 19, 2010 by spgennard

The use of scripting languages with other languages has increased over the last couple of years, from a simple case of interoperability, reuse of scripting code to allowing your code to customised via the user of external scripts. All of … Continue reading →

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iRiver Story Firmware upgrade v1.6.1 (update)

Posted on January 18, 2010 by spgennard

iRiver have again upgraded the firmware for the “iRiver Story” to revision 1.6.1 (previous v1.6.0 has been removed). So what is different? 1. Added Functions a. Dithering function on PDF File and EPUB File b. FB2Viewer function 2. Improvements a. … Continue reading →

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Review of iRiver Story firmware update

Posted on January 17, 2010 by spgennard

Since installing the latest firmware update aka version 1.5.   I have experience the odd issue but as I have tried to be analytical about what issues I see. I have been lucky enough to be reading a couple of … Continue reading →

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