This article is an interesting read and it surprisingly includes the Tripath TA2020 (now no longer manufactured). Tripath certainly made ripples in the audio world but the big players like Texas Instruments and National Semiconductor have since become the leaders in class D amplification. More surprisingly, TI and National will shortly become one company after a merger agreement was announced a couple of months ago.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/25-microchips-that-shook-the-world/0

If you get the error,

AppleSyncNotifier:The procedure entry point sqlite3_wal_checkpoint could not be located int he dynamic link library SQLite3.dll.

This solution could help.

Copy the file SQLite3.dll from the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support folder to the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support folder.

It is important that you simply copy this file and not move it as multiple programs use this dll. Hopefully this helps those who can’t get rid of the error and didn’t find the reference on the apple forum.

It is useful to know at least a couple of keyboard shortcuts in Solidworks to help navigate quickly through your designs and Solidworks also allows you to customise your keyboard shortcuts.

To customise your shortcuts right-click on the top menu and navigate to the Keyboard tab. There you will find a list of all possible shortcut commands with their current assignment.

I have included a PDF of the default shortcuts which can be found here …. Solidworks Default Keyboard Shortcuts (right-click and “Save As” to download).

Jonathan Harris presented (on TED) two java based visualisation websites which focus on the social content within blogs and news called We Feel Fine and Universe (respectively). What I found interesting was the great data visualisation techniques developed to support the presentation of such large data sets. The visuals are attractive, easy to use, and very informative. Follow the links below for more information on Jonathan Harris and his sites.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/jonathan_harris.html

http://www.wefeelfine.org/

http://universe.daylife.com/

On the wefeelfine site you have to select the interactive version.

You can gain more control over your computer at the stroke of a key. All this is possible if you have a launcher application installed on your computer such at the following.

Windows - Launchy – An application launcher with plugin based function expandability

Mac - Quicksilver - The mother of all launchers with amazing speed and functionality beautifully implemented