Talkr and the junior AutoCAD's name

There has always been some speculation about the name of the “Junior AutoCAD” and the meaning of those letters “L” and “T”. AutoCAD Lite ? AutoCAD Lap Top? AutoCAD Limited Technology? A...

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Problems for Boeing 787 Program?

You know what it’s like. You get to the critical point in that weekend project only to find you’ve run out of something essential. A quick dash to the local hardware store sorts it out, even if they d...

Autodesk University Accommodation...

Like thousands of others I’ve been sorting out arrangements for Autodesk University 2007 and, by all reports, the hotels are filling up fast, already overflowing... . I got into Treasure Island but...

Listen to a post in a click - Talkr FeedFlare!

Thanks for Mike Perry over on BLAUGI for letting me know a couple of features of this blog can merge to make every post talk! I’ve had a feed for Talkr , which converts text to speech, available fo...

Listen to a post in a click - Talkr FeedFlare!

Thanks for Mike Perry over on BLAUGI for letting me know a couple of features of this blog can merge to make every post talk! I’ve had a feed for Talkr , which converts text to speech, available fo...

Gronholm & Loeb 0.3 seconds apart after 3 days of Rally NZ!

I was going to head to the Waikato chasing WRC Rally New Zealand but spending most of yesterday sorting out some other travel meant today was the only option. At best I would only see one or two stage...

The power of a model, lets you forget!

Last week, while talking about standards, I asked the retail design team a question: “What’s the colour, hatch scale and pattern of the space used for a Toy dept in one of our store plans.” T...

Princess Diana and the white Fiat Uno

Yes I do have a white Uno. Yes it does have a few paint chips, dents and dings but they are the result of 245,000 km commuting, stones, errant supermarket trolleys and the like. This isn’t me!...

Sony dumps ATRAC, Connect and SonicStage?

Have Sony have finally given up with SonicStage? I hope so as their music hardware is great but SonicStage, the software that connected it, was awful . TrustedReviews - Sony Dumps ATRAC Conne...

IBM & Nanotech

IBM are manipulating atoms aiming to get a thousand times current storage densities. Imagine your server, on your ipod… IBM Nanotech Breakthroughs Point To Tech's Future Building Blocks: Scientif...

Toyota Corolla Art?

The arrival of conceptual shading, and hardware that could cope, in CAD meant escape from the world of wireframe. This Toyota Corolla takes wireframe out of the monitor into the real world… I ca...

RobiNZ CAD Blog, Welcome to Autodesk University 2007

Apart about this time of year, from last time , I write a post about Autodesk University which ends with a decision to trek across the globe to the best cad user event there is… Yep, I’ve done it a...