I have a new desktop PC that runs Windows 8 OS. Win8 & Win7 differences So now I am adjusting to the differences between Win8 and my last Windows 7 OS. The first notable change is at computer boot as I get a ‘splash’ screen appear with the date and time showing but not a […]
Summer holidays…..
At the start of August I went away for a week’s holiday break to Cornwall with my wife and mother in law! We had a great week away in a holiday cottage (more semi-detached bungalow) in Polladras village (close to Helston). We nearly had a week off from computing but we had brought our laptop […]
Delphi XE4 Chess programming
Last month I started a chess programming course with Mike Leahy of Chess Opening Wizard software. The course is shadowing Mike as he does the next build version of Chess Openings Wizard Professional in Delphi XE4 using FireMonkey which should allow MacOSX compatibility. As such the course is called COW Shadow Me (it has 16 […]
HTML5 Audio
About a month ago I became interested in HTML5 audio. I already knew that the new HTML5 audio tags <audio> </audio> would add a default audio player to an HTML5 webpage. This is a good feature to have but I had questions about HTML5 audio… The first question I had concerned the fact that the […]
May or may not!?
This is a silly post title to remind me it is now the month of May and this is my blog post to record that! So what have I been up to during April? Well I have had fun and games on my computer and programming: Web developing Web dev part1 I have been working […]
Spring update
Well it is a month since my last post! What have I been up to? Unfortunately I was ill with a flu type virus that left me in bed for a week and I am not fully recovered yet but am slowly getting better. The promise of Spring did not materialise and in UK it […]