Once again, science confirms what athletes and coaches have long feared. In this case: while sliding head-first is safer in terms of avoiding a tag, it’s more.

The app is certainly a relic, from a time when the casual computer user couldn’t crack open Photoshop or Skitch or Pixelmator or thousands of web apps.

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That functionality will be available in the documented API firmware that I’m working on as we speak. Tip: with the fully featured front end, pressing the “Defaults” button is almost always the right thing to do when you first plug in the FCD or launch the app. It resets a bunch of gain parameters to something sensible. The basic front end only allows frequency changing. Known . Workaround: remove FCD and plug back in again a few seconds later. Under OS X and Linux, Switch to bootloader crashes the app.

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Workaround: Restart the application without removing the FCD. The FCD should now be in bootloader mode.

Under OS X and Linux, Switch to application crashes the app, and FCD remains in bootloader mode. Workaround: Kill app, remove and reinsert FCD after a few sconds, then restart the application.

The FCD should now be in application mode. Using the bootloader.

From the fully featured front end, put the dongle into Bootloader mode by pressing the “Reset to bootloader” button. The Frequency Control app will no longer be able to send messages to the dongle once it is in bootloader mode. If you erased it or wrote a bad image to the device, it will spend its life in bootloader mode until a correct image is written. I spent an awful lot of time trying to make sure it’s very difficult to “brick” the FCD, in fact I haven’t managed to do it yet in its current version). Red Itchy Raised Patches On Skin.

Run the FCHIDBL. exe program. It should show something like this: HIDOpen of Vid. Open the . bin firmware image file with the “Open file” button. Press the “Write firmware” button.

This takes about ten seconds or so. Press the “Reset to app” button and the dongle will now be back in SDR mode. Note that the bootloader app will show the following after “Reset to app” is pressed: HIDOpen of Vid.

When Sliding for Home Plate, Go Feet First. Hot on the heels of last week’s study on the frightening prevalence of traumatic brain injury in football—and similar dangers that may lurk for players on the soccer field—comes new research on another playing field danger: head- first slides in baseball. The danger here isn’t for players’ brains, however, but mostly for the delicate bones and tendons of their hands, as the New York Times reported this week.

The study, published in May in The American Journal of Sports Medicine (and funded in part by Major League Baseball), catalogued all major and minor league slides from 2. The findings are stark: players are roughly twice as likely to get injured sliding head- first rather than leading with their feet. While the danger isn’t as dramatic or life- threatening as head injuries in football, it’s still significant. Slide injuries led to 4,2. Once again, science confirms what athletes and coaches have long feared. In this case: while sliding head- first is safer in terms of avoiding a tag, it’s more dangerous for players’ bodies.

But we often need hard data to motivate change, and while the study didn’t include college or high- school players, the implications are clear. Players and coaches have to weigh the risks—one out against possible weeks on the DL. When in doubt, lead with your feet.