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ART ATTACK ~ Kiwi art & photography by Grant and Lesley.
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Aviation
Why has the A380 been delayed?
The A380’s six month delay explained: A380 delivery delay upsets SIA, Qantas - ATW Daily News “Chew [SIA CEO Chew Choon Seng] told this website that the delays "were due to engineering and electrical problems." Via Online Travel Review
MindManager
MindManager to adopt XML Format as it's default file format
Goodbye to the current .mmap,and hello to new .mmapx, based on XML and ZIP. Sorry I made that up, no need to change anything as MindManager’s default file format .mmap is already based on XML and ZIP* so Microsoft are playing catch up! I got carried away after
AutoCAD
AutoCAD to adopt XML Format as it's default file format
Goodbye to the current .dwg, and hello to new .dwgx based on XML and ZIP. Sorry, made that all up*. I got carried away after writing this post…. * It is true for DWF which is an open format that uses XML and ZIP as seen here
Web/Tech
Microsoft Office to adopt XML Format as it's default file format
Robert Scoble first hinted and now it’s out many others are blogging about the announcement that the next Office will use Microsoft Office Open XML Formats as its default. Goodbye to the current .doc, .xls, .ppt and hello to new XML based.docx, .pptx, .xlsx What does this really
The Personal Productivity Show Podcast
Cameron Reilly & Des Paroz have a new podcast about “Personal Productivity”. Its going to cover methods, habits and technology that help you get through what you need to get done! The Podcast Network :: The Personal Productivity Show #001 Topics include Activewords* and MindManager and Microsoft Outlook and Acer Tablet
Weblogs
Things you can do with RSS, but I didn’t know you could!
Ellen Finkelstein has posted a link to a post by Tim Yang “ 15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but I got carried away)” but adds some more “ things ” of her own These include sug...
AutoCAD
AutoCAD DPI to DWF precision in Metric
Shaan has posted a useful conversion chart ( see right ) showing which settings to use to get a given precision in a DWF. DWF is capable of impressive precision but the default settings are rather low...
CAD and BIM General
Nanotechnology blogged
I’ve been interested in Nanotechnology since reading Eric Drexler’s “Engines of Creation” years ago. Tonight I found the Foresight Nanotech Institute Blog – Nanodot – which was launched in 2000! Nanodot Blog Home page: http://foresight.org/nanodot/ Nanodot RSS Feed: http://new.foresight.org/nanodot/wp-rss2.php Foresight is
Web/Tech
No Google = No You?
So if you Google yourself and get no results, do you exist? View from the Isle - If I Google you, would I find you?
Weblogs
TypePad & BlogJet updates coming!
TypePad is getting a revamp to allow easier management of comments & trackbacks. As this blog is both hosted on and created with TypePad I’m looking forward to seeing the new features. At the same time BlogJet, my favourite off-line post composition software, is also getting an update. This
Weblogs
TypePad & BlogJet updates coming!
TypePad is getting a revamp to allow easier management of comments & trackbacks. As this blog is both hosted on and created with TypePad I’m looking forward to seeing the new features. At the same time BlogJet, my favourite off-line post composition software, is also getting an update. This