Fiat
My Fiats, COTY
OK, so the European Car of the Year has a somewhat dubious history but I found this old feature online and was surprised to have owned nearly all Fiat's winners up to the Bravo. I was only 1 when the...
Latest
Internet Explorer 8 User Interface Customisation
Internet Explorer is more "customisable" than previous editions and Nomita's post shows how. My favourites are there along with a few I hadn't noticed. I've been using IE8 full time for about a month...
AutoCAD
Autodesk issues a challenge to all AutoCAD 3D Designers
If you're a U.S. resident reading this, and it appears quite a few are (right), consider this Autodesk AutoCAD Design Contest which has an awesome prize. The winner receives a trip for two to San F...
Traffic Light Thoughts
Traffic Light Thought - What is more than one Audi called?
Sitting at a red I glance in the mirror and see what appears to be an Audi commercial set up coming up the road behind me. How else to explain the arrival of new identical colour metallic grey new A4,...
3ds Max
Max and the Revits arrive, it's 2010 for real
Today's delivery completed my set of "Twenty Tens". The arrival of Max (last week) and the Revit Architecture/MEP Series (today) mean it's time to think about building new deployments. As that will al...
Vox Hunt: Friendly Face
Show us a friendly face...
Formula 1
A new way to watch Formula 1 - Live TV + Twitter + Web Timing!
This s an interesting new way to see Formula 1. Of course there is the television satellite feed from the BBC, via Sky N.Z., live Web Timing (as seen by the teams) on Formula 1.com and live Tweets fro...
Inventor Wizard, Inventor LT Preview & 3Dconnexion connections
Jürgen emailed me last September* in response to a post about Inventor LT . It got my attention because I wasn't aware of many Inventor blogs/sites, even now I still follow more SolidWorks blogs!...
AutoCAD Architecture
Where is My Command? - Revit and AutoCAD Architecture 2010
To assist with migration to its new User Interface AutoCAD Architecture 2010, like AutoCAD 2010, has a Command Search built into the Application Button . Tap in a command/tool name, or part of one, an...
Corel
20 years of CorelDRAW?!
I haven't been using it for 20 years but CorelDRAW is an old friend. The first version I saw was CorelDRAW 3 (1992), the first I owned was CorelDRAW 4 (1993) and since then I've updated every few rele...
It's a Vista problem, or is it?
In preparation for a presentation a plasma display decided that colour was all too hard and degraded into 2 bit black white display mode. The presenter apologised, while rebooting in an attempt to fix...
QotD: Tomorrow's Tax Day
Tomorrow's Tax Day. Have you done your taxes yet? New Zealand is a bit different but yes, returns done, taxes paid, thinking about the next lot. What's that line about two certainties? Death & Taxes? Suddenly taxes don't seem so bad!