| Page | Text |
| 4 |
GPS: Ah, so that's where you think
we are, is it?
Accuracy - Selective Availability cut
DGPS, WAAS, Mapping displays
Steve Golding |
| 9 |
The History of Sound Recording-Part 1
The Beginning up to 1900
Pianola, Edison - Stylus on Tinfoil
Tainter - first grooved flat disc
Emille Berliner - lateral recording
Brian Pickard |
| 11 |
Puzzle Corner
Friday 13th, Dissecting a Square,
Alphabetic Noun-plurals endings
Colin Singleton |
| 12 |
Supercalifragilistic..XP..allidocious
Microsoft XP upgrades, Compatibility,
Hardware needs, Features
Brian McIlwrath |
| 16 |
DAB Developments
New receivers, New stations
(some mono-only),
UK poor sound v rest of Europe
Charles Upton |
| 18 |
Digital Cameras : Part 2
Buying a camera : Amateur or Pro?
Resolution, Image Size, Zoom, Storage,
Batteries, Format, Cost
Richard Hallas |
| 22 |
The Digital Hub : Part 3
Software for music and video
MP3. Mac iTunes, Digital camcorders,
Burn CDs, Competing DVD systems
Richard Hallas |
| 26 |
Cable Modems - The Future of the
Internet on your Mac?
Broadband: speed, setup, problems
Phyllis Brighouse |
| 30 |
Recording your own CDs - Part 2
Creating audio CDs - software
Sources:-
MIDI, WAV. Tape, Vinyl. MPEG3
Gerald Fitton |
| 34 |
Making the most of your Digibox Part 3
More radio & TV Channels
Satellite availability
Interference - can shift O/P channel
Colin Sutton |
| 36 |
The High Tech Game of 'Frustration'
Your opponents' weapons: Packaging,
Inadequate/missing/wrong Instructions,
counter-intuitive Controls etc etc
G T Swain |
| 38 |
Techno-Snips
Satellite planes in our future?
Solar-powered : over cities
'SkyTower' company
website |
| |
Techno-Snips
Text messages could reveal
career aptitude
UK Survey for Woolworths
website |
| 39 |
Techno-Snips
Mobile phone system can identify
mystery music
e.g. needs just 3 secs of a broadcast
Philips (Holland) |
| |
Techno-Snips
Spintronics shrinks data storage to
nanoscale: Univ of Buffalo at New York
1000 times store capacity increase
using atom-size devices
website |
| |
Techno-Snips
Recycling law could mean pricey PCs
in Europe
Who pays cost of mandatory recycling
website |
| 40 |
EcoTech Forum
Sustainability, Renewable resources
Useful & useless energy saving ploys
Keith Johnson |
| 43 |
Linux - An Alternative Reality: Part 2
Popular objections unfounded..
No viruses, Masses of FREE software
Ian Lynch |
| 45 |
Building Your Own PC : Part 3
Graphic Cards
On-board graphics v specialised cards
Available cards compared
Tony Houghton |
| 48 |
Panasonic Video Recorders: User's View
S-VHS, 'Tape Library' system,
Access Teletext, Big program memory
Geoff Baxendale |
| 51 |
SCART - What's it all about?
(Euro-AV, SCART, or Peritel)
Direct Audio-Visual devices connector
Functions & Pinouts
Richard Watkinson |
| 54 |
PC Bits
Internet, Servers, World Wide Web,
Hypertext, Browsers
Set up Microsoft Internet Explorer
Bimal Jangra |
| 59 |
The Engineer on.. Motion & Movement
Posture, Back Support, Access
Cars, Computers, Household layouts
VDUs, Keyboards, Mouse
Ray Maidstone |
