On 17 and 19 May we visited London for work. Unfortunately we weren’t aware of the details of the London Congestion Charge scheme and have been issued with a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN).
What is the Congestion Charge
If you travel into central London (link to page with map of region) a charge is levied to basically encourage you not to use your own vehicle or to use a less polluting vehicle.
Why the fine?
We were in central London from about noon on 17 May 2010. Left about 9pm. My wife, to whom the charge has been issued as registered owner of our car, was under the presumption that the charge was automatically levied by sending a notice to our home address (registered with the DVLA, the route they use to establish the owner and used to send out a PCN).
I assumed that one would have to pay online or by phone but thought there would be a reasonable period in which to make this payment – there was not.
AQA exam board announced that they are dropping C, C# and PHP from their approved list of computer programming languages in the upcoming syllabus. Here are example exam papers from 2009.
Example exam papers from AQA
AQA Computing 2009
The following are AQA Computing exam papers from 2009 for units 1 and 2 of the A/AS-level exams.
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A list of tools to create screencasts (screen capture videos) and screen captures as well as some online web page image capture tools and full screen screenshot apps.
No-install screen cast applications
Video of my screen
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How to remove title bars and borders from windows in KDE[4]; this gives a Chrome browser like appearance to Opera and maximises screen area for any application.
Turn off KDE title bar
Keyboard shortcut
Alt-F3, Advanced > No border. WIll remove the border and remove the titlebar from a KDE managed window.
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Following on from previous Safari on Linux posts this is an update based on the status for Safari 4.
Update: Safari 4 on linux via WINE
In what sounds like some sort of review of a Bacchanalian orgy Safari has achieved Gold status on WINE as reported at WineHQ. The specific testing was made using version 4.0.4 (release number 531.21.10) on Kubuntu 9.10 (Ubuntu modified for KDE4) but this is likely to work as well on any major distro.
Once I’ve had chance to perform some tests I’ll post a little more here.
Update to my post reviewing 10 online photoshop style image editing applications: Photoshop.com, Aviary, Sumopaint, splashup, pixlr, 72photos and simpler touchup style tools: FotoFlexer, pixer.us, PicMagick, Picnik.
+1 more photoshop like online tools
In addition to the tools mentioned in the previous review we now have Pixlr Express which, as the name suggests, is a cut down version of Pixlr.
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