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If you've ever wondered and never known, you can find out with the Do I Snore? app. This app runs on the iPhone, listening to you through the night, recording clips of any snores it hears.

You can run the app on the iPod Touch too, but you will need the audio input cable plugged in.

Do I Snore? listens for those tell-tale snoring signs and records the top three snores each time the app is run. You can listen to these back in the morning.

You can set the app to begin listening straight away, or use the built-in timer function to start taking recordings between certain hours only.

The app continues to run if the sleep button is pressed and will run for approximately 9-10 hours on the phone's battery. To extend this period, the phone should be plugged in to charge while in use. We recommend this because the phone is unable to go into power saving mode when the app is running.

The Easy Books app is a fully-functional double-entry accounting application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The app is ideally suited to small businesses and 'one man bands'. It keeps track of all your accounts, statements, invoices and VAT. The app can produce a full VAT return, profit and loss and balance sheet for your accountant. All of these can be emailed from the phone in HTML format and can easily be imported into a spreadsheet.

Once the app has performed an end of year profit and loss report, it's easy to consolidate it ready for the next financial year. Consolidating the profit and loss posts adjustment lines to each income and expense account.

For VAT returns, the app keeps track of purchase VAT and sales VAT and even adjusts the VAT owed when your business runs the Cash Accounting VAT Scheme.

In April 2009, EDF Energy's Lodestar implementation moved into "Business As Usual". From then on, any issues became production support issues dealt with by an EDF support team.

The project has been tuned for EDF and is capable of pricing over 50,000 sites per day to generate energy prices for EDF's largest customers.

During the hand-over period, Geode was involved in troubleshooting issues such as fast track problems. These were investigated, and if there was an underlying problem, we suggested a fix by documenting the problem itself together with the changes needed.

In January 2009 Accenture approached us to provide a short training course on developing within the Lodestar ASP framework.

We provided a couple of days additional support to their ASP developer through January remotely using a VPN.

Later in April, Accenture approached us again to provide a full-time developer to work on the project site in Brussels. Our developers are specialists in Lodestar development, and we have been working hard during the systems integration and test phase to deliver the client's requirements.

In March 2008 EDF Energy asked us to help with performance tuning their production database. We were able to identify where in the code the poor performing queries were defined, and to develop more efficient versions of them using the Oracle plan tables (explain plan) to reduce overall cost, physical I/O and ultimately time taken to execute.

During autumn 2007 we were involved in ASP training for the Lodestar framework. Many aspects of the ASP framework were covered, with best practices, including stored queries, dictionaries, custom screens, tabs, dropdown actions, XML data, XSLT transforms, debugging and more!

End clients are keen to make use of the Lodestar applications, and see the flexibility the software provides. Custom ASP work should "fit in" with the framework, and we have successfully trained staff in the best way to go about developing for Lodestar.

Harrier LLC provide mail-order photo processing and online digital printing. The company has recently begun supplying photo gifts such as mugs, calendars and photo books though the online Truprint site as well as fulfilling these gift orders for numerous partners. Their current I.T. system tracks orders as they progress through the production process, but it is increasingly difficult to maintain. The project requirement was to create a new system based on new technology to take over the process. Geode was asked to plan the project and in the initial part of the project, to design the database.