Office
I found this neat free PowerPoint utility after seeing someone with the wonderful task of inserting and re-sizing lots of digital photos into a PowerPoint presentation doing it manually. Older versions of PowerPoint (up to 2000) have no way to do this and while later versions (XP onwards) can import
AutoCAD
In 1983 John Walker drew The Solar System to scale in AutoCAD-86. It was a demonstration of AutoCAD’s floating point database resolution and I remember being shown it when I was at Tech. Everyone was amazed at the precision as they zoomed from Pluto’s orbit down to a
Cool Software
On a similar theme… AIBO/Dog Attack Movie Experiment: Can a dog tell the difference? Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris is an offshoot of the successful Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Tokyo. Both laboratories were created by Sony to perform basic research in computer science and related fields. Via comment
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I’ve just rediscovered a long lost utility. I used ClipTray in the past but, for some reason, didn’t reload when moving to a new PC. I don't know why but just remembered it as was doing lots of copy/paste while formatting a document. I found
Cool Software
If you do a lot of typing into web forms and your spelling or typing are not the greatest try ieSpell. Its a Spell Checker for Internet Explorer that will catch any typo's before you hit the submit button. This is a great tool for blogging and saves
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TypePad makes it to the Cool Software Category simply because it enables me to create this site, easily. I've had no problems and rapid response to a few suggestions or queries I've sent to TypePad support. If you've thought about blogging and found it
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Air New Zealand have ordered some 7E7's but you can fly one now! Thanks to Jon & Peter at ARNZ Aircraft Repaints New Zealand there is a nice Air New Zealand repaint of Robert Versluys's GMAX 7E7-800 for FS2004. Seen here its flying over, or parked
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Blogs are great, but there are so many of them how can you read them all? With a bit of help you can. I had heard about "Aggregators" but never bothered finding out about them, or trying one, until today... Whats an Aggregator? News aggregators are desktop or
CAD and BIM General
TUMONZ have released an updated map engine (Version 2). This this adds new tools and simpler inteface to the already excellent existing product. I think the biggest improvement is that the core map and user objects can use transparency and textures. Combined with the new "rendering engine" this
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Out of 19,763 emails sent to me in the past several months 18,272 were spam (92%). Do I get a lot of spam or not many legitimate emails? Well, I get hardly any spam as I have Mailwasher. It lets me delete junk mail at the server before
BlogJet
This is done with Blogjet that promises wysiwyg publishing for Blogs. Shaan Hurley found it and mentioned on his blog in the article Blogjet Rocks I'm trying it for 30 days to see if I like it, so far I do! It makes these things much easier: * Positioning
CAD and BIM General
I first saw MindManager when it was used, by Hugh Bathurst, as a brainstorming/notation tool to run an excellent CAD Productivity conference I attended. Having seen it in action I had to get a copy and purchased my own. It’s a great tool for any kind of planning,
