Category Archives: Software

HD Content Encoding

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Stephen

Heres the process and tools l use for preparing HD content for uploading to youtube. I copy the video file from my HD Canon camcorder’s internal 8Gb in-built flash memory to a folder on my PC as shown below – … Continue reading →

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SQL Server 2008 R2 Express

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Stephen

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 now has a maximum database size limit of 10Gb as opposed to the former limit of 4Gb. Small organizations and Microsoft Access migration will find this useful. Heres a link for downloading SQL 2008 R2 … Continue reading →

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Android

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Stephen

Just about everyone must be familiar or has seen tons of TV ad’s showing Android based cell-phones. Heres a link to notes/screen-shots l saved while trying my hand at a first programming project targetng the Google Android 2.2 Operating System. … Continue reading →

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PSU Robotics Event 2004

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Stephen

PDXRobo2004 from Steve M on Vimeo.

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SQL Server 2008 R2 – SSIS

Posted on May 18, 2010 by steve

Did an upgrade today from SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP [community technical preview] evaluation software to the final RTM [release to manufacturing] version. One thing l noticed  – l cant find a service for SSIS – Sql server integrated services … Continue reading →

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SQL Server 2008 Data Collection..

Posted on April 25, 2010 by steve

“SQL Server 2008 provides a data collector that you can use to obtain and save data that is gathered from several sources. The data collector enables you to use data collection containers, which enable you to determine the scope and … Continue reading →

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Cinebench Release 11.5…

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Stephen

Benchmarks: Workstation 6.4C/4T @2.34Ghz Geoforce 9800 GT/PCI/SSE2 OpenGL = 26.06 fps CPU = 2.64 pts W7/64bit/8Gb/4C4T intel core 2 quad cpu Q8200 =============

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.Net Data Access Tutorials…

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Stephen

Excellent series of tutorials by Scott Mitchell – Author of Teach yourself ASP.NET 3.5 in 24hrs – in Visual Basic as well as in Visual C# Click here for link.

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Samsung Camera Codec…

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Stephen

If you own a Samsung pocket camera, such as the Samsung TL-100 which records HD video [720 resolution], you probably have problems playing the AVI video files on your window PC media player. You might want to try using DivX … Continue reading →

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