| Page | Text |
| 4 |
Freeview - Free for All
Digital Terrestrial TV - BBC etc
Multiplexes, TV & Audio channels
Set-top boxes, Aerial grades
Richard Watkinson |
| 7 |
Installing Linux - Part 3
Configure Mandrake Control Centre
Boot, Network, Internet, Security
Microsoft source release & NDA's
Ian Lynch |
| 10 |
Technology in Amateur Theatre
Safety, Regulations, Responsibilities
Sound equipment, setup
Phyllis Brighouse |
| 12 |
Technoholics Anonymous
The march of tempting technology -
Addiction - What next?
G T Swain |
| 15 |
Puzzle Corner
Magic Hexagon solution
Anagram dictionary
Fruit pyramid
Colin Singleton |
| 17 |
Radio Code Clocks
MSF:Rugby; DCF77:Mainflingen, Germany
Carrier frequencies, Signal format
Donald Scott |
| 20 |
Supertools Rule - OK?
Websites for a selection of tools
and gadgets available on-line
Brian McIlwrath |
| 25 |
PC Bits
email clients, web-based email
Configuring & using Outlook Express
Bimal Jangra |
| 31 |
Feedback
Kettle survey
Readers' views sought
Ed. |
| |
Feedback
Theatre Sound
Old reel-to-reel recorders have some
advantages
Geoffrey Donald |
| 32 |
Techno-Tips
Copying colour photographs
Kodak digital camera with flash
John Evans |
| |
Techno-Tips
Portable data?
Write to/read out from a digital
camera via USB.
OK with Sony 'memory stick'
Christopher Jarman |
| 33 |
Audio Spikes and Cones
Advocated for 'isolating' sound
equipment - they dont! But maybe
other advantages
Jim Lesurf |
| 36 |
It's All About Images!
Image-worthy gadgets! -
to show off in the pub?
Mark Howe |
| 38 |
The History of Recorded Sound-Part 6
1960 to 1970 - The Golden Age
Professional multitrack tape
Home tapes, Philips cassettes
Noise reduction - Dolby
Brian Pickard |
| 42 |
Recording your own CDs
Windows software, Universal formats
Zip archiving
Gerald Fitton |
| 46 |
BBC7 - Digital Radio Station
New: on air, internet & cable
Reception quality, programs
Phyllis Brighouse |
| 48 |
EcoTech Forum
Planned installation of solar heating
Estimated yield and costs
Keith Johnson |
| 50 |
Techno-Snips
Light bulb idea
LEDs to replace?
website |
| |
Techno-Snips
Linux certification vs Windows
certification
(Of skilled technicians)
website |
| |
Techno-Snips
Linux: the rise of the penguin
Goldman Sachs say 'open-source' will
dominate in corporate data centres
website |
| |
Techno-Snips
Microsoft say its business model is
threatened by open-source
Plea to US Securities & Exchange
Commission
website |
| 51 |
Techno-Snips
Pens that read
Handwriting recognition
website |
| |
Techno-Snips
Tags reveal if frozen food is rotten
Use organic dyes that change colour
website |
| |
Techno-Snips
Text messaging lingo has experts
wagging their tongues
Effect on written language?
Some experts 'for', some 'against'
website |
| 52 |
Techno-Snips
Whose productivity is it, anyway?
Cold calling claimed to
'increase productivity'
website |
| |
Techno-Snips
Clothes fitted by body scan
Sizes, fitting, style patterns
website |
| 53 |
Techno-Snips
Full spectrum solar cells
InGaN bandgap tailored to match
solar spectrum - increased efficiency
website |
| |
Techno-Snips
Copy protection controversy
Competing systems to block copying
Move for multi-platform system
website |
| 54 |
Techno-Snips
Supercam CyberTech Digital Egg
Tiny multi-purpose camera etc
website |
| |
Techno-Snips
Five movies on one disc
4 GBytes on 3 cm disc - Philips
website |
| |
Techno-Snips
Revolutionary see-through photography
'Terahertz' camera penetrates 15mm
pad of paper
website |
| 55 |
Techno-Snips
Cell phone use can impair vision
while driving
- so can conversation!
Utah Univ.
website |
| |
Techno-Snips
Kitchen air pollution risk revealed
Gas cookers imperil young children's
health - nitrogen oxides generated
website |
| 56 |
Making a Quiet PC
(or making a PC Quiet)
Quieter fans, heatsinks, heat pipes
Tony Houghton |
| 60 |
GPS: Ah, so that's where you think
we are, is it?
Grid references, GPS 12 accuracy,
Grid, True & Magnetic North(s)
Steve Golding |
