I'm not at Autodesk University, but I am watching the on-line content. I've long added time codes to notes for video, but only today used ActiveWords for the blindingly obvious. Decided 10-minute blocks were enough, changing one digit makes it minute accurate, so made a bunch
For AutoCAD users it’s nearly 2013. I’m quite pleased to see the r13 legacy or the silliness that is tridecaphobia didn’t have Autodesk change naming from 2012 to something daft like X3. You can preview some of the new features on Lynn Allen’s blog: AutoCAD 2013
Something changed on my machine recently and impacted two of my favourite utilities. Screen capture blues from the black, and non-ActiveWords I went to take a screenshot and the capture looked like a photo taken in a coal mine with the lights out. You could see all the Snagit capture
I recently got a new PC and this video from Buzz (not the Google one) shows why ActiveWords was my first install after Windows 7 was running. He made the demo with Camtasia Studio (another favourite app of mine). To give an idea how ActiveWords changes your computing (and why
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It’s not that I don’t like Apple, just their “our way or no way” attitude and the fanatic devotees annoy (but not Phil, Matt, Adam, Terrance and other iFanatics I know!). I’m not really into cults, except one, but will change my mind if the evidence stacks
Buzz Bruggeman's video not only shows ActiveWords in action but confirms that it works with Windows 7. I tried ActiveWords on the Windows 7 64 beta and was happy to find it worked as I couldn't use a...
This ActiveWord will query the new Wolfram|Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine. Execute the ActiveWord and this dialog appears, enter the search term, ActiveWords will launch your browser with the query entered in Wolfram|Alpha. It's early days for my use but so far just the city & date
Until I read Phil's post I didn't realise the eminently sensible Year, Month, Day (YYYY-MM-DD) format had official status. Hot Dating Tips for Marketers | Phil Couling Why aren’t more marketers...
Since I'm new to Twitter I just made an ActiveWord for http://search.twitter.com/ . Now I type, or ink, "tws" then intiate ActiveWords. A dialog appears (below), enter the search term and my browser l...
Given this is, occasionally, a CAD blog I suspect you use design software. But in addition to that do you use Outlook , do you send email , do you have contacts and business relationships to mange, or...
ActiveWords have released an update (Version 1.95) which adds Windows Language features. It also adopts the standard Windows protocol for user settings (. ..Documents and Settings\LOGON\Application Da...
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Shaan laments the death of spelling and I think I agree. I’m also not sure how good (note I resisted using the word cool here!) the new search engine Cuil is but it’s worth an ActiveWord . This one wi...
