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New Zealand
Oh Canada - Singing the praises of New Zealand
If you believe some Kiwis, and Kiwi Politicians, there is little to like about New Zealand. Thankfully it aint true and it’s refreshing to hear someone say it, all the way from Canada! Singing th...
The Physics of the "I" in BIM
What is a Building Information Model? My interpretation is simply an information model of a building. It’s not a technology, it’s not a way of working, it’s the expression of a building as data. To th...
Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope, breathtaking!
This is what made Robert Scoble cry and Buzz Bruggeman, CEO of ActiveWords , called "the best thing he’s seen in years from Microsoft" a couple of weeks ago. Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong introduce the Worldwide Telescope at TED: http://static.videoegg.
Ed Bott on XP versus Vista, is it a 2000/XP replay?
I haven’t got a great deal of experience with Vista, one machine with Vista Business, but so far it’s been ok. I like the looks but find it’s constant “ Do you want to do this..” nagging a little tedi...
Automobile
Maybach redefine pointless
Maybach, verging on irrelevant anyway, produce the useless Landaulet. Remarkably, it manages to be even uglier than a normal Maybach. Who asked for it? Car try to work that out. Maybach's £67...
Jimmy saves my desktop layout
Jimmy Bergmark posted a useful tip for anyone who, like me, spends time arrangng desktop icons just so – only to have a resolution change or similar mix them up again. Now it’s just right-click Restor...
The demise of Bertone
In January it appeared Bertone might survive . Cardesignnews have an update and the news isn’t good: Trouble at Bertone - cardesignnews.com It has now emerged that Bertone will not be making an a...
Cloud Computing
Microsoft offer 5GB of "Cloud" - Windows Live SkyDrive
Microsoft have released SkyDrive, their “cloud” storage solution, from beta and now offer 5GB storage in 38 countries, including New Zealand. That’s a ray of sunshine on a gloomy Auckland day. W...
The demise of Viz, comes at a price...
At the recent World Press Day Autodesk announced the demise of Autodesk Viz and their intention to “encourage” Viz customers to move to Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2009. It’s a subset of 3ds Max 2009 opti...
Hide the InfoCenter, if you prefer - AutoCAD 2009
InfoCenter was introduced with AutoCAD 2008. I liked how it combined the old communication centre, help, search and integrated RSS feeds. However, some found the title bar search entry box consumed to...
DWG TrueView 2009 measures up
I’ve flogged this capture from “Beyond the Paper” to illustrate an important new feature in Autodesk’s free .dwg drawing viewer. It could always view, print and publish (to DWF) but Autodesk DWG Tr...