Join BAARF. You Know It Makes Sense

I have recently been initiated into BAARF.

Battle
Against
Any
Raid
Five

Enough is Enough

If you too wish to show your support and enlightenment please join BAARF at www.baarf.com

Once upon a time when I was less enlightened than I am now, I worshipped at the foot of the false idol that is Raid 5. Having been awoken to the danger I have since rejected it wholeheartedly and am now well on my way to recovery.

Help us to rid the world of this evil !

Steve Cholerton
Born Again Raid10ian
First Battalion BAARF

Disclaimer: It's actually OK for some things. Just don't run a database on it :-)

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Arten Science Forum !

I've setup a Feedback Forum for Arten Science. It's very quite in there at the moment, we're looking forward to your feedback :-)

http://artenscience.uservoice.com/

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ScreenAudit 1.1.4 Released

I've released an update to ScreenAudit. 1.1.4 gives the user the option of configuring ScreenAudit to capture the Camera, the Screen(s), Both or Neither (!!). Previous to 1.1.4 the assumption was made that screen capture would be the predominant use for ScreenAudit.

Feedback from customers has indicated that they would like the ability to perform *only* webcam capture for some kind of 'time lapse' / security recording purpose. This is a small update and was released a few minutes ago. It can be downloaded from the following location:

http://www.artenscience.co.uk/artenscience/ScreenAudit.html

Since sending the Press Release for ScreenAudit the traffic to my site has been many, many times more than usual, so I apologise if it seems slow. I will be increasing bandwidth from next Tuesday.



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New Product: ArtenQUERY 1.0

I’ve just uploaded ArtenQUERY 1.0. ArtenQUERY is a useful, very inexpensive, easy to use query tool for use with SQLServer and Oracle databases. Fast and with some very nice features including multiple results grids, query history, large grid support, user prompting for parameters and export to XML and HTML.

It's written in Visual Studio and so requires the .NET Framework 2 to be installed.

This is a project I've had on the back-boiler for a year or more and I decided it was time to fix a few bugs and release a 1.0. The support for large grids has been a real benefit during some data migration projects I've done over the last few months.

More Information can be found here: http://www.artenscience.co.uk/artenscience/ArtenQUERY.html



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ScreenAudit Update: Timed Webcam Photos

The latest version of ScreenAudit gives you the option of getting photos taken from your computers webcam at a timed interval as well as screenshots from your monitor(s).



WHO did WHAT and WHEN on my Mac ? - ScreenAudit will show you.



Snapshots of your screen and webcam at definable timed intervals
Reminds you what you were doing, and when
Never forget to bill for your time, your actions recorded
Monitor if someone else uses your computer, and for what
Keep an eye on your children’s online activities
Monitor your home / pet / garden remotely
Supports multiple monitors
Speaks your own message when taking the snapshot
Adjustable snapshot quality
Can take snapshots of the Dashboard or all ‘Spaces’



More Information here: ScreenAudit

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ArtenCHAT Beta Program

I’m currently developed a Local Area Network based Instant Messaging Chat and File Transfer Client. It will be Cross Platform, the intention is to support Windows 98 > Windows Vista, Mac OSX 10.5 Universal Binary and also Linux. It will have the ability to send and receive encrypted messages which will have to be decoded before being viewed. That should stop the embarrassment of a personal instant message arriving when you are not at your desk ... :-)

Many IT Departments are clamping down on the use of Instant Messaging clients because of the security risk with running open ports to the internet. ArtenCHAT will be a safe alternative for Departmental, Peer to Peer and Group Chat within the LAN. Easy and fast file transfer will be another advantage of ArtenCHAT.

I intend to make the software available free of charge for under 5 concurrent users, with an unlimited corporate license for £49. Feedback is welcome on the pricing as well as the concept.

If anyone would like to be a part of the Beta program they will receive a free full license when the product is complete, assuming of course that they actually provide me with some feedback :-)

For an invite to the Beta program please email artenchatbeta@artenscience.co.uk

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Freeware Upload: ViewCSVTAB

I wrote this for a specific purpose. It takes a Comma Separated (CSV) or TAB Delimited (TAB) file and loads it. You can then check the file for formatting issues and also search any of the columns for a specific value.

I wrote it for use during a data migration project but it has since been used by customers for searching archived data.

You can download it here: http://www.artenscience.co.uk/artenscience/FreeSoftware.html



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Freeware Upload: Lottery

Lottery is a Lottery Number Generator I wrote years ago. Someone may find it fun! If you use it and win please send 10% of your winnings to my offshore account :-) You can download it here: http://www.artenscience.co.uk/artenscience/FreeSoftware.html



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Webclip - Superb !

One of the features of Mac OSX Leopard and Safari is the Webclip. I’ve ignored it until recently and now having used it I can say it really is great.

Basically Webclip allows you to select a portion of a webpage that you are interested in, and that gets updated. To avoid going and manually checking for these updates you can select the page area and assign it to your Dashboard, where it is a mouse click away and constantly refreshed.

Some examples of use:

Google Analytics Graphs
Twitter Followers
Software Download Statistics

I have used it for all these purposes and more.

To use Webclip click the webclip button on the toolbar of your Safari browser and then select the portion of the page that interests you. When you have defined the area you need, click the Add button shown at the top right of the page.

That’s it. That portion of the page is now visible from your Dashboard.

Very Simple, Very Cool :-)

Below is an image as shown in my Dashboard from the MacUpdate Developers Account which I setup yesterday.



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ScreenAudit Update

ScreenAudit has just been listed on the Apple Downloads Site. We’ll see how much interest that generates ... ?

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/screenaudit.html