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0 Technology Wish List

Published on 16^th July 2010 by Jon Scaife in Android, Misc Hardware, Misc Software. Updated 23^rd October 2012.

One of the best things about the Internet is that one can find almost anything. Sadly, there are some things that can’t be found (at the time of writing). Below is my personal list that I’m hoping to eventually find…

0 Problem with Juice — solved

Published on 8^th March 2010 by Jon Scaife in Misc Software. Updated 5^th October 2011.

For a while I’ve used the podcast manager Juice. I’ve been very happy for a while, but the other day it suddenly stopped running for no obvious reason. Uninstalling and reinstalling didn’t resolve the issue, but after some digging I discovered the uninstallation process wasn’t deleting the settings file. On Windows XP this is located… Read more »

3 ATI BBC HD Fix!

Published on 26^th January 2010 by Jon Scaife in Freesat, Misc Software. Updated 17^th September 2012.

Further to my post yesterday, I discovered, via Nigel Dessau’s blog (closed by AMD since this article was published), that ATI will be releasing a fix for this issue in the Catalyst 10.2 (February 2010) release. This is fantastic news, thank you ATI!

0 Update on BBC HD / ATI corruption issues

Published on 25^th January 2010 by Jon Scaife in Freesat, Misc Software, Windows Media Center. Updated 17^th September 2012.

Just a quick update on a about problems with BBC HD in Windows 7 Media Center when using ATI video cards.

0 Playing downloaded FLV’s

Published on 21^st December 2009 by Jon Scaife in Codecs, Misc Media Software, Misc Software. Updated 5^th October 2011.

I recently had a problem with 2 PCs which appeared to be configured identically, but whilst one would play a FLV downloaded from youtube, the other would fail. Some other FLVs played OK on both systems. After much further investigation I discovered that the activeX version of flash player on 1 of the PC’s was… Read more »

0 A temporary workaround for the ATI / 7MC / BBC-HD problems

Published on 21^st December 2009 by Jon Scaife in Freesat, Misc Software, Windows Media Center. Updated 5^th October 2011.

–update– This issue has now been fixed by a driver update from ati. For more info see the on the issue

0 Audio issues with gigabyte power saver

Published on 14^th December 2009 by Jon Scaife in Misc Software. Updated 5^th October 2011.

I’ve been suffering from audio distortion issues when playing back movies on my recently rebuilt HTPC. After much testing I discovered a solution — disabling (in my case by uninstalling) the gigabyte dynamic energy saver utility. I am not sure if this tool only causes problems because of my specific configuration of codecs, but it… Read more »

0 Creating Windows 7 DVD from digital distribution

Published on 22^nd October 2009 by Jon Scaife in Misc Software. Updated 5^th October 2011.

I got my copy of windows 7 via digital purchase, and after running the downloaded EXE was left with the contents of a setup CD in a folder. Now i want to do a clean install so I need to create a bootable DVD. A bit of googling revealed the way to do this. Download… Read more »

0 Windows 7 empty “all programs”

Published on 6^th October 2009 by Jon Scaife in Misc Software. Updated 5^th October 2011.

I’ve been using the RC1 (7100) build of Windows 7 and have been largely very impressed, enough so to consider buying upgrades for all my current PC’s. However, I recently had an issue with the “All Programs” menu going blank for no obvious reason. As usual a bit of digging with google offered the following… Read more »

0 Windows 7 Autologon