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Stuff Live 2002
October 02 'New technology'show at
Earls Court - Loads of exhibitors but
visitors scarce
Report by G T Swain |
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Mobile Phones and Safety
Radiation sources, frequencies, power
TV transmitters v base stations
Limited exposure times
Jim Lesurf |
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Installing Linux
Setting up Windows, defrag etc
Partitioning
Install or Upgrade choice on software
Ian Lynch |
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The History of Recorded Sound Part 3:
1920 to 1945 Early Electric Recording
Western Electric, Columbia, Victor etc
Playback - Electrical pickups
Brian Pickard |
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Recording your own CDs
Formats; 'Track-at-Once' 'On-the-fly'
Image files
Closing... 'session' v 'disc'
Gerald Fitton |
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The Engineer on... Light...
Sunlight spectrum, colour sensors
Odd sources- strip lights, LEDs,
Energy efficiency, Safety
Ray Maidstone |
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Technology in the Kitchen: Breadmaking
Electric breadmaker, Recipes
Real 'Home-Made' bread!
Brian McIlwrath |
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All Cut Up
Bad weather boredom
Computer JigSaw puzzles : URLs
G T Swain |
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Techno-Snips
Computer mouse for the blind
Tactile feedback from images
Glasgow University
Website |
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Techno-Snips
Drive-by spam attacks wireless LANs
'Wardriving' seeks insecure sites
to offload spam, viruses
Not confined to metropolitan areas |
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Techno-Snips
"Email may grind to a halt"
In 3 years email will top 60 bn/day
- mostly spam - so usefulness at risk
website |
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Techno-Snips
Wireless data blaster
Short range systems: 802.11b, .11a,
Bluetooth : Wireless personal networks
Ultrawideband : 100 M bits/sec
website |
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Techno-Snips
Digitisibg negatives to CD-R archive
Scanner + CD-R or commercial service?
website |
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Techno-Snips
What a national ID card looks like
Likely incorporated technologies
website |
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Techno-Snips
Magic box provides gene test for GPs
Diagnose many potentially deadly
infections, predict patient reactions
to drugs |
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Techno-Snips
Gadget translates baby's cries
Guides parents' responses
website |
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Techno-Tips
Tomato sauce flow
More ideas for getting it out
Roger King |
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TV Channels, Frequencies & Bands
Several meanings for word 'channel'!
Analogue & Digital channels
Aerial groups
Richard Watkinson |
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Puzzle Corner
Numbers to create 'magic' hexagon
Colin Singleton |
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DAB Encore
Developments - more digital cheese-
paring of bit rates and quality
Don't believe the hype!
Charles Upton |
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Making the Most of your Digibox- Pt 5
More channels, Digibox upgrades,
Correcting audio volume
Careless professional installation
Colin Sutton |
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Feedback
Getting Linux on CD cheaply
(Or DVD) - Unboxed, no manual
Tony Houghton |
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Techno-Tips
GPS accuracy
Use full 10-digit grid references
Available on 'Hillmaster' CD-ROMs
Michael Smyth |
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Techno-Tips
Satellite TV
Good information on (commercial)
website www,satcure.com
Barry Allen |
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Techno-Tips
Technology in the kitchen
New reader (my wife) hooked by
tomato sauce articles.
John McGuire |
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PC Bits
Casio Windows CE hand-held
AdSubtract removes adverts, popups
but may block wanted access
Bimal Jangra |
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Tracking Your Child
USA : Family Radio Service: Short
range UHF Citizen's Band
Cell phones, Beepers, GPS receivers,
Electronic 'tether'
Brian McIlwrath |
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Building Your Own PC Part 5
Starting the Build
Wear antistatic strap
Order in which to assemble bits
Tony Houghton |
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Portable Satellite Radio
World Space satellite offers 50
stations in L-Band (~1.5 GHz)
Available via self-contained portable
receivers (4 available in UK)
Donald Scott |
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EcoTech Forum
Environment impact - we can't go back
BATNEEC - 'Best Available Technology
Not Entailing Excessive Cost' to rate
commercial (& domestic) operations
Keith Johnson |
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Digital Terrestrial Television
Need set-top box, maybe aerial upgrade
List of free TV & Radio channels
Richard Watkinson |
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Web Pages the Open Standards Way
Style & Substance: Navigation,
Focus, Consistency, Restraint
Tech points: Images, File size/format,
Downloads, Links, Content management
Mark Howe |
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About Living With Technology
Journal house-keeping matters
Companion website
Paul Beverley |
