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23 Apr by Rob in Information

The Fischer Family Trust

My girlfriend is currently studying for a PGCE to become a high school teacher. For one of her lectures they discussed the use of data and resources available to schools to track their pupils progression and for predicting their likely grades. The Fischer Family Trust were brought up as an organisation that ...more»

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Tags: Data Protection

23 Apr by Rob in Information

Patents

Apple are currently sueing HTC for patent infringement. They have taken up issue with about 20 patents that they hold ranging from the method of unlocking the phone to "GMSK Signal Processors for Improved Communications Capacity and Quality". This got me thinking about the patent system and with Apple releasing OS 4.0 ...more»

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Tags: Apple, HTC, patent

31 Mar by Rob in Music

Music I Liked in March 2010

My listened to music in March 2010 ...more»

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Tags: last.fm, Music

11 Mar by Rob in Rob, Web

CSV to OFX

I've recently started to use Quicken an application to keep track of your spending by allowing you to tag items and categorize them, schedule payments and bills and generally have a better overview of your accounts. If your American Quicken seems to have agreements with all the major banks to allow ...more»

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Tags: CSV, OFX, Quicken

26 Feb by Rob in Music

Music I Liked in February 2010

My listened to music in February 2010 ...more»

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Tags: last.fm, Music

22 Feb by Rob in OS

Chromium A New Frontier

Over the weekend I decided to have a play with Googles new OS Chrome. Having read an article on downloadsquad.com I headed over to Hexxehs' page to download his latest Chrome compilation Flow. Hexxeh provides a USB image and a VMWare image so you can play around without writing anything to ...more»

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Tags: Chrome, OS

5 Feb by Rob in Rob

Other Rob McGhees

What's in a name? I guess what your called can be to do with family traditions, famous people or whats popular at the time. You don't get a say in what your name is going to be unless you change it by law so I think it's interesting to find out ...more»

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Tags: McGhee, Rob

26 Jan by Rob in Music

Music I Liked in January 2010

This post is mainly to test a new plugin that I've written. This time I've played around with the Wordpress filter options to change text in a post into something meaningful. My last.fm playlist plugin changes into the list displayed below. ...more»

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Tags: last.fm, Music, Wordpress

22 Jan by Rob in Android

Creating an Android Update.zip Package

Installing applications to an Android phone is simple, either use the Market application to find and install, put the apk file for the program on to your phone/SD card and install using Astro or finally you can use the adb push command to push the files to the phone. These ...more»

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Tags: Android, Phone

21 Jan by Rob in Web