Matt Waddell

Since migrating my work mailbox from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange my Junk E-mail folder within Microsoft Outlook was renamed Junk E-mail1.  If I tried to rename the folder from within Outlook the option was greyed out so there seemed no simple way to do this, it annoyed me to be honest!

Well today I have solved it and my Junk E-mail1 folder is now labeled Junk E-mail.  How did I do this?  It was really really simple, all I needed to do was to close Outlook then relaunch it once with outlook.exe /resetfoldernames

That was it, like I said simple!

Since I bought my Nokia N95 it has never synchronised that well with my various bluetooth devices such as my Parrot CK3200LS and Alpine CDE-103BT.  My previous Sony c phones had no problem in keeping the two phonebooks in sync with whatever was on the phone but the N95 had to ‘push’ it’s contacts manually.

I now appear to have found the solution, it is in the form of a small Nokia application that you install onto the phone and it monitors whenever an existing bluetooth connection is established and then automatically carries out the sync.

The software can be found on the Nokia website  [http://europe.nokia.com/A4143881] for the N95 8Gb you need the Nokia 810 Contact Download Application for Nokia S60 3rd edition devices version.  Install it using your Nokia PC Suite and set it to auto run on start-up and auto sync then clear your bluetooth pairings between devices, recreate them and it will sync automatically every time you connect.

The latest version of firmware for the Panasonic DMP-BD35 is now available on the global support site, it addresses BD-V playability improvements.  Here is a direct link to the updated firmware. http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/bd/download/bd35/bd35_euro.html

Update Information
Model Number DMP-BD35EG/EB/EF
Update Version Ver 1.4
Update File Name / Size Europe/UK/CIS
UPDATE_BD35E_V14.exe / 28,416,074 bytes

Well I have finally got my new car and it is fantastic!  It has been spec’ed up to the M-Sport level and then had a number of BMW Performance parts fitted such as the additional bodykit and alloy wheels for starters.  Anyway let us cut to the chase, here are the photos!

This is quite a quick post this year as I am a bit pressed for time currently, so Phil here you go , I have put my photos online finally! You can find most of them in my gallery section.

Well that was another simple upgrade from 2.6x to 2.7 of Wordpress.

I managed to get this shot by taking a photo of my television whilst zooming mid exposure.  I was really surprised how good this image was for my 3rd/4th attempt at it!

To recreate this all you need to do is zoom the lens of your SLR during the exposure, this will create a sense of movement, creating an ‘explosion’ effect with streaks of light bursting out of the centre of the frame.

This was taken with ISO 200, f/14.0 and 0.4sec shutter speed.  So nothing fancy was required in the way of lens.

On Friday, myself and Kris decided to take a day off work and go and visit Castle Combe Circuit to photograph some motorsport as there was an open track day going on.  You never really know what to expect on these days as cars can range from a Rover 45 (standard spec!) to a Dodge Viper to a VW Golf MK I with a VR6 engine to superlight Lotus Exiges.

Seeing the Ariel Atom was really quite special as there are not many of them about and the supercharged Exiges sounded fantastic and they destroyed nearly every other car out there with it’s brutal cornering ability!  Best moment of the day was probably watching the blue BMW M3 (pictured above) losing it big time right in front of us in The Esses, thankfully it appeared to only be his pride that was damaged.  You can find all of my photos from the day out at Castle Combe Circuit on either my photos section of the site or on Flickr if you prefer.

Decided to go to the Kennall Vale nature reserve today with Nik and Georgia, never been there before but my mate Phil told me about it and I am so glad he did.  It was raining quite heavily (typical Cornish weekend!) but that did not deter us, here are a few photos.

Well I have finally decided to spend some of my hard earned cash and buy my own Digital SLR, for months now I have borrowed Nikki’s camera when I could.  The choice was quite hard really as my mate Kris has a Canon EOS 400D and was doing his best to persuade me to go the Canon brand but ultimately I had to go Nikon as Nik already has a Nikon D40x with a number of lenses so it would mean less doubling up on certain lenses.

I went for the Nikon D90 body only and purchased a Nikon AF-S DX VR Zoom 55-200mm f/4-5.6G and a Nikon AF 50mm f/1.8D.

So far I am really impressed with the ease of use and dramatic images the D90 is producing and it will only get better as I improve.