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Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) is one of a few ways of receiving Digital Television (DTV) at home. However, in order to receive DTT transmissions and fully realise the benefits available from this new medium the choice of antenna and its positioning needs to be carefully considered.

The antenna (or aerial for us Brits) is the first and arguably the most important link in the chain to receiving a high quality signal for our TV or digital TV recorder. If you live in an area of poor reception or do not have the correct type of antenna, then no matter what you do later in the chain, performance is likely to be compromised.

While this article provides an introduction to the antenna issues that directly affect the quality of reception, your local antenna installer should be able to advise which antenna is best suited for your particular location.

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Every month I record an audio newsletter podcast for Zen Internet. This podcast is an audio version of their monthly e-mail newsletter that they send out to the majority of their customers. During the recording process however, things don’t always go according to plan!

Unfortunately, for the last two months I have been unable to record the monthly podcast, as I have been stuck in bed with ill health. Hence, I have not got quite as many bloopers or out-takes this year, for your your seasonal amusement, as in previous years.

Added to this, Winnie (our usual voice) has recently had a little baby; so with her new family addition she was not able to attend every recording session. Thankfully, Sue stepped into the breach on a these occasions to save the day, which helps account for the different voice with the South African accent.

I hope you enjoy our bloopers and manage have a little laugh at our expense…

Podcast Bloopers 2011

The Internet Monthly – Podcast Bloopers 2011:

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Thank You

As 2011 drifts into 2012 and we start the yearly cycle again, I would like to thank you for visiting my blog and listening to the podcast and hope to see you back here again in the New Year.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

As the costs of computer monitors and powerful graphics cards have tumbled year on year, so has the affordability of having multiple displays connected to a PC. It is now no longer just the preserve of a select few blue chip company employees.

Computer monitors have also continued to shrink in size from the traditional, bulky CRTs to the slimmer, more compact flat panel LCDs, as such so has the desk space required to accommodate a multiple monitor set-up.

There is no better time to consider upgrading to a multi-monitor setup; it is now a much more practical proposition than ever before for the average householder to have more than one monitor attached to their home PC.

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There have probably been enough texts written on this subject to reconstruct the wall of China entirely from project management books alone. These books commonly expound the virtues of the latest management techniques that will allegedly solve all of your project management woes. However, how many of these actually offer any true insights into the nature of project management?

Project management is nothing new. The ancient Egyptians could not have completed their amazing feats of civil engineering without it. Furthermore, they managed to achieve their awe inspiring constructions without any fancy project management software. They would undoubtedly have been very well organised, but would also of had that key secret ingredient found in every successful project; an ingredient you can not see, but one that is essential (in the correct amounts) to the smooth running and timely completion of any project.

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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s issue you can find out how to make sure your name won’t be attached to an xxx domain, learn about computerised pot plants and the odd affair of the Minister, his Facebook wall and Jacobaea vulgaris.

You can also hear about ghost-town jibes as Google+ opens to all-comers, road works and holes you can’t fall into by the UK’s leading pavement artist, and ‘font art’.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

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