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  • New theme looks good

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    Searched for a theme with a contemporary style and flexibility. Suffusion 3.7.8 was the best that I found. Changed: /wp-content/themes/suffusion/functions/actions.php /wp-content/themes/suffusion/style.css so that blog’s title was shifted over a character in header; and Featured Content’s sliderPager and sliderControl were centered.

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  • 2010 Research and Development Topics

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    WinTV and Windows Media Center (Windows 7)

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  • 2009 Research and Development Summary

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    AVCHD MP4 H.264 (720p) video editing and playbackWestern Digital WD TV HD Media Player(alternative in some respects to Apple TV)EyeTV (ATSC HDTV / DVR for Mac OS X)Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”Ubuntu (Linux)Hard disk cloningPC troubleshootingDymo LabelWritersNetbooksSQLiteOpenOfficeWindows 7

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  • Skype Video Testing

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    Just a note that in December 2006, I installed and evaluated the latest versions of Skype for Mac and PC. I tested interoperability between Mac and PC, and video conferencing. I recommend Skype because of interoperability and the large international user base. I also looked at web cameras. There are a lot of them. I

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  • Using FileMaker Pro as a GUI to a SQL Database

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    As of 11-17-2005, I’ve built a sample model for using FileMaker Pro as a GUI to a SQL Database using ODBC. My objective was merely to explore whether it was practical to use FMP (rather than other less “friendly” GUI applications or tedious Web-browser based HTML/PHP interfaces). I had found no useful examples on the

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