Celebrating 30 Years of the ZX Spectrum

Well this is going to be a *slight* departure.I have been asked to contribute to an article (see here) on the 30th Anniversary of the ZX Spectrum by a local paper and this triggered a trip down memory lane (not to mention a wasted lunchtime looking through the Spectrum archive at World of Spectrum).Ironically I never actually owned a Spectrum having had parents who brought into the whole "BBC is educational, Spectrum and Commodore are for Games"....

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Using iOS 6 Apple Maps "Report A Problem" Feature

As I'm sure you'll be aware Apple are experiencing a few problems with their brand new Apple Maps application for iOS 6 (see here for CEO Tim Cooks' public apology). One of the features of the new Maps application is a "Report A Problem" link, you can use this to report issues to Apple for them to fix - clearly they'll have a lot to do.Here's how to report an issue;First of all go to the location in Apple Maps which shows the problem you'd like to...

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Apple Maps Comes To Bar Hill!

As I'm sure you're aware Apple have updated their iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod) with iOS 6 which replaces the existing Google Maps with *new* Apple Maps which includes Turn-By-Turn navigation as well as a 3D view.Sadly the new Maps application is not quite up to the standard of Google Maps (in much the same way as an ant is not quite up to the height of a giraffe).Looking at Bar Hill Tesco is a good example of where this has not quite worked ......

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SSRS: Scheduling A Report With 2008R2 (In SharePoint Integrated Mode)

In an ideal world you'd go to a report, enter your parameters, run the report, and a few seconds later you'd have all your data in the format you need. Unfortunately whilst going to the report and entering the parameters are (usually!) easy, the "few seconds" can quickly stretch to "a few minutes" and beyond before you get your data - particularly with some of the more complex GL-based reports.As most reporting is clyclical (month end, year end,...

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