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Subtitling of Music

By admin, on July 10th, 2010

Received this in my email in box from a subtitler who’ve commented on this site before.

“A survey that may be of interest to you has come to my attention and I wondered if you might post the link on your blog.It’s regarding subtitling of music on British TV. This provision is still relatively . . . → Read More: Subtitling of Music

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Testing..1..2…3

By admin, on May 17th, 2010

Hi everybody. I’ve just relocated my blog under a different hosting company.

Please comment if you can see my RSS feed or not.

Best regards

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Gold-plated service

By saltbar, on January 9th, 2010

At the behest of Alison Byran of G.O.D.

Apologies for the lengthy break away from blogging. Things have been mad at work, plus an impending new addition to our new family, plus sustained efforts throughout Autumn to renovate the 2nd half of our house in readiness for the new addition. Oh well, life . . . → Read More: Gold-plated service

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Tripetalk

By saltbar, on September 5th, 2009

This is going to be a short vent.

This afternoon, after a long period of absent, I find myself calling Tax Credit Office via Typetalk on my minicom (picture me using my thumb to wipe the dust off the single line screen)

After a 10 mins wait in the telephone queue, a Tax Credits . . . → Read More: Tripetalk

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DeafBlind Communicator

By saltbar, on August 14th, 2009

Extracted from Pattaya People (Thailand newspaper)

An exciting new portable device for deaf-blind people allows them to have face-to-face conversations, make phone calls using a text relay service and communicate by SMS.

The Deaf-Blind Communicator (DBC) consists of a Braille note-taker linked by Bluetooth to a mobile phone. Using the device, a deaf-blind person . . . → Read More: DeafBlind Communicator

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