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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Is it just me that’s worried about this story: satellite Skynet 5C has just been launched, completing the Skynet ‘installation’ and giving military computers the power to talk directly to each other, rather than the voice-only communication provided by the previous version of the system. It worries me when computers called Skynet can talk to [...]
Problem solved
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008After my plea for help yesterday, I’m happy to say that the problem has now been solved - thanks to Niel and xnav over at the AppleScript forum on the Apple website. They gave me the help I’d needed to complete my editing of the script that I originally found thanks to lundy over at [...]
Calling AppleScript gurus everywhere
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008I’m using the BBC iPlayer to watch a lot of TV at the moment. The problem is that, to get uninterrupted viewing, I have to keep changing my screen saver and display sleep settings (or sit really near the screen so I can keep moving the mouse to keep everything awake).
I found an Apple Script [...]
Now I’m REALLY confused
Saturday, April 26th, 2008At work, we’re running a customer information database that uses an Access database file with a user-friendly Visual Basic front-end. Part of the set up is integration with postcoding software, for address verification. It currently runs on a Windows 98 system.
We’re looking at upgrading the hardware, so at the moment we’re trying to ensure that [...]
SocialSpark: all it’s cracked up to be?
Sunday, April 20th, 2008First of all, let me say that this post is an an attempt to give you a quick overview of the recently launched SocialSpark phenomena (if, indeed, that is what it is), as well as highlight some good and bad points about the whole thing.
Second of all, let me apologise for the fact that this [...]