After much searching around, I found the correct code to use on the Sky Help & Support website: http://www.sky.com/helpcentre/tv/remote-controls/operate-tv-with-sky-remote/

To save you a few minutes, here is the TV model and code that worked for me.

• TV Model: 37lf2510
• Sky Code: 1293

How to Program Your Remote Control

When you have your code:

• Cover the end of your Sky remote control and press the tv button.
• Remove your hand, then hold select and the red button together until the light at the top of your remote blinks twice.
• Enter your four-digit setup code and press select.
• Cover the end of your Sky remote control and press sky.

If this works, test the remote by changing your TV volume. Please remember that some TV functions may not be supported by your Sky remote, but the basic standby and volume functions should work once you’ve put your code in.

37lf2510

Available on the App Store for €14.99, in order for you to be able to import photos from your camera the app will also require you to use the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit. This is available for a further €29 from the Apple Store or from your favourite Apple Retailer.

The kit comes with two connector, one for using an SD card and the other for using a USB lead direct from the camera. Using it is an absolute breeze, simply plug it into the bottom of you iPad, insert your SD Card or your USB lead and launch the Photos app and import the photos you want. A list of supported cameras can be found on their camera compatibility list.

If you are lucky enough to use an Eye-Fi card, you can skip the whole Camera Connection Kit as the Eye-Fi card will upload the photos to the iPad for you.

Once you have uploaded the photos, you launch the Photosmith App on the iPad and it will start to load the uploaded photographs. While you can use the app straight away, I left it for a few moments to build it’s indexes and previews.

The interface is very clean and intuative and gives you a number of viewing modes. In Grid View you can organise and sort through the photos, and group them into Collections. Sorting photos is madeeven easier with some simple and easy to use gestures, such an tapping a photo with two fingers to select it.

When viewing the photos in the Loupe View you are also presented an “Edit and QuickTag” dialog. Here you can quickly:

• Rotate the photo (in case your camera didn’t detect you were lying on your side)
• Auto Advance (so a single tap moves to the next photo)
• Reject (and therefore not sync)
• Label (red, yellow, green, blue, purple)
• Star (1-5; whatever system works for you)
• View the EXIF metadata – shutter speed, aperture, ISO, etc
• Edit any of the IPTC fields (Creator, Location city, state, zip, etc)

Then once you have selected the photos and applied the metadata to them, you can fire up Lightroom and open the Photosmith Plugin where the photos are imported into your Lightroom catalog.

I have read lots of reviews complaining that the app should have more features and give you the ability to do more advanced edits on the iPad. However, isn’t that what Lightroom is for??? For what it is I think this is a great app that allows you to do the time consuming task of sorting the photos on a really slick device. Granted I am not a professional Lightroom user, but I think this app could save loads of time sorting through your photos.

In my opinion you have to realise the limitations of a device like the iPad. If you need more advanced editing features, use Lightroom on your big powerful Laptop or Desktop. The iPad simply does not have the power to do these kind of edits (yet). The other limitation worth mentioning is that you import the photos to your iPad first, if you are someone who takes a large amount of photos, watch out as your iPad will get very full very quickly.

The solution is commonly known as a DNS NAT Loopback and is discussed in the SonicWALL Technical Note:  SonicOS Enhanced 2.0: Configuring DNS NAT Loopback.

Loopback is supported without any special configurations in both firmware 6.x.x.x and SonicOS 2.0 Standard.

In SonicOS 2.0 Enhanced, you need a custom NAT policy like this:

Original Source: LAN Subnets
Translated Source: WAN Primary IP
Original Destination: WAN Primary IP
Translated Destination: (LAN server object)
Original Service: Any
Translated Service: Original
Inbound Interface: Any
Outbound Interface: Any

The idea behind this policy is that you must translate your source into a public object if you wish to talk to the public IPs from the LAN. You can apply this to 1:1 NAT, as well. Imagine that you now have a working setup with private side 10.100.0.3 (LAN server object) and public side 3.3.2.10 (WAN server object). You would need this custom NAT Policy:

Original Source: LAN Subnets
Translated Source: WAN Primary IP
Original Destination: (WAN server object)
Translated Destination: (LAN server object)
Original Service: Any
Translated Service: Original
Inbound Interface: LAN Interface
Outbound Interface: Any

This example can be modified to provide the same access for a server on the DMZ (or other zone) by using DMZ server object in place of the LAN server object.

For example if the person went to http://www.domain.com/post/?password=PASSWORD they would be straight in without being asked for the password. I managed to achieve this by by editing /wp-includes/post_template.php and locating the section below.

function post_password_required( $post = null ) {
 $post = get_post($post);
 
 if ( empty($post->post_password) )
     return false;
 
 if ( !isset($_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH]) )
     return true;
 
 if ( stripslashes( $_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH] ) != $post->post_password )
     return true;
 
    return false;
}

It checks “Whether post requires password and correct password has been provided“, and returns a “false if a password is not required or the correct password cookie is present.” What I did was add a $_GET['password'] to look at the URL take the password from the URL, and to compare it with the actual password.

While you could put the password in plain text into the URL, I decided to use something like md5generator.net to convert the password into an MD5 string. The code below then compares the parsed password form the URL with the MD5 version of the password. This way, the link http://www.domain.com/post/?password=PASSWORD would become http://www.domain.com/post/?password=319f4d26e3c536b5dd871bb2c52e3178.

if ( $_GET['password'] == md5($post->post_password) )
        return false;

Simply add the above into /wp-includes/post_template.php like below

function post_password_required( $post = null ) {
 $post = get_post($post);
 
 if ( empty($post->post_password) )
     return false;
 
 // Get Password from URL and compare to MD5 Hash of Post_Password
 
 if ( $_GET['pass'] == md5($post->post_password) )
     return false;    
 
 if ( !isset($_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH]) )
     return true;
 
 if ( stripslashes( $_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH] ) != $post->post_password )
     return true;
 
    return false;
}

Now you will have the option of people visiting the post and entering the password or give them a link to bypass the password all together. Personally I use a URL shortner to make the URL a bit nice and also allows me to track visits to the URL.

OK it is a complete gimmick, however I do honestly think I will make good use of it. Especially in work where I spend a vast amount of time talking on a mobile phone. Now I can leave the phone on the desk on charge while I am using the hanset to talk and I can type away and use the computer with my now free hands.

The phone has a useful button on it allowing you answer / hang up / reject calls (have a look at my Apple Headphones Shortcuts post). The only negative thing I have found is that the coiled cable will move the phone about the desk unless you find a way of stopping it (I used some Bluetak).

I even managed to come up with my own assessory (elastic band) that turns it into a handsfree phone. Though I would not recommend this for long term use though, long term being anything over 30 seconds that is.

According to their website, Native Union describe the Pop Phone:

Designed by the French designer David Turpin the POP handset combines classic style with a contemporary edge and is finished with a luxurious soft-touch texture. The handset has been manufactured with a high quality speaker and microphone and can be used with all mobile phones when fitted with the correct adaptor (sold separately) and when fitted with a USB adaptor (sold separately) can be used for VOIP computer telephone calls (Skype, Google Talk…). This product is fitted with a 3.5mm jack (compatible with the iPhone)

One main claimed benefit is a helath related one, where using the Pop Phone reduces the amount of absorbed cellular radiation by 95 – 99%. The Pop Phone really is a great bit of fun and had brought a smile to faces of many of my colleagues.

Apart from phone adaptors, Native Union also provide adaptor such as Splitter Cable and USB Adaptors allowing you to use the the Pop Phone with your laptop or PC for use with your favourite voice or video application.

For your information, the following is a list of current and previous versions of RightFax with their planned end of life dates. This list is available on the RightFax Patches Download section of the OpenText Knowledge Center:

• RightFax 10.0 is currently supported and will enter “end-of-life” status 36 months after release of a subsequent version.
• RightFax 9.4 is currently supported and will enter “end-of-life” status on June 30, 2014.
• RightFax 9.3 is currently supported and will enter “end-of-life” status on December 31, 2011.
• RightFax 9.0 has entered “end-of-life” status. Telephone and email technical support are no longer available effective October 1, 2009.
• RightFax 8.7 has entered “end-of-life” status. Telephone and email technical support are no longer available effective September 1, 2008.
• RightFax 8.5 has entered “end-of-life” status. Telephone and email technical support are no longer available effective February 17, 2006.
• RightFax 8.0 has entered “end-of-life” status. Telephone and email technical support are no longer available effective September 30, 2004.
• RightFax 7.2 has entered “end-of-life” status. Telephone and email technical support are no longer available effective August 31, 2003.
• RightFax 7.0 has entered “end-of-life” status. Telephone and email technical support are no longer available effective October 31, 2002.
• RightFax 6.0, 5.2, and 5.0 have entered “end-of-life” status. Telephone and e-mail technical support are no longer available effective June 30, 2000.

So I have put together a few useful headphone shortcuts. Apart from the shortcuts relating to answering and ending phonecalls they should all work on the iPhone, iPad and iPod.

When there is an incoming call

• Press Once to answer the call
• Press Twice to send the call to voicemail
• Press and Hold to decline the call

While on the call

• Press Once to hang up the call

When you are playing Music

• Press Once to start / stop / resume music playing
• Press Twice while music is play to skip to next track
• Press Three Times to rewind / go back to the previous song

• Press Twice and Hold fast forwards the track

Then, at anytime

• Press and Hold to activate voice recognition

OpenText RightFax 10 Service Release 2 contains enhancements and software fixes for the OpenText RightFax 10 server and client applications. The service release updates the OpenText OpenText RightFax 10 product suite.

For more information read the OpenText® RightFax 10, Service Release 2 ReadMe.

The Service Release consists of two components, the actual Service Release which is applied to the RightFax Server and then a second component being an updated RightFax Client Installation.

• Download RightFax 10, Service Release 2.
• Download Worldwide Silent Client Install package.

My Setup

So far the collection consists of:

• Apple Airport Express (2)
• Apple TV
• Apple iMac
• Apple iPad 2
• Apple iPhone 4
• Apple iPhone 3GS

The backbone of the whole system are two Apple Airport Express(es), which provide the wireless network throughout the house. Connected to each is either a Stereo HiFi System or an iPhone Dock, allowing me to use Airplay to stream music in the Lounge or Kitchen.

The other core component is my beloved iMac. Much to the delight of my energy provider, this is powered on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Running iTunes it hosts my collection of music, videos and photos. Using the iTunes Store it is so easy to legally purchase music and videos, much quicker than it would take to drive a video or music store. In fact the items on iTunes are generally cheaper than many of the large retail chain. In fact I don’t I have rented a physical video or DVD in over 2 years.

While I was able to stream my music around the house and to watch movies and TV programs that I had bought on the iMac, something was missing.

I was lucky enough to pick up an Apple TV 2 when it was released in the US, and it really has tied the whole system together. Having activated Home Sharing, I can now sit in the living room and watch a movie that I have downloaded (to buy or to rent) in glorious High Definition. Browse the web, or peruse photos and videos on the iPad or iPhone and use Airplay to instantly put it up on the TV.

The thing about all these devices is that they have crept into my everyday life, and should any element of it die or break I know I will be straight out to buy a replacement.

This is usually down to the new the User Account Control (UAC) feature in Windows 2008. OpenText would recommend that you turn off UAC (See Knowledge Base Article).  This is achieved in the following steps:

• Open Windows Control Panel.
• Complete the steps that apply to your operating system:

Windows Server 2008 – Click User Accounts > Turn User Account Control On or Off, and then clear the “Use user account control (UAC)…” option.

Windows Server 2008 R2 – Click User Accounts > User Accounts > Change User Account Control Settings, and then lower the bar to the bottom to the “Never Notify” level.

• Reboot the server.

Run As An Administrator

From time to time, if you still receive “Access is Denied” errors, close Enterprise Fax Manager. Right Click on the Enteprise Fax Manager icon and click Run As An Administrator. All going well you will not receive any more warnings.

For more information on User Account Control visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control