MindManager's Presentation Mode has a "Transparent Fade Out" option (seen right). This adds a, sometimes too subtle, fade effect to the unselected branches to focus on the selected topic. After installing a graphic driver update it started going crazy, with constant redraws as the transparency overlay
Windows
Microsoft have launched a new community site with videos about the upcoming Windows 7 operating system. It has launched with a mix of engineering and customer videos. If you're interested in the "why" behind Windows 7 it's worth a look. Talking about Windows -
Windows
When I travelled to the AutoCAD bloggers preview I took a Tablet PC from work. I wanted to have the beta AutoCAD 2010 available but didn't want to "pollute" a production machine with test code. The so...
Windows
Internet Explorer is more "customisable" than previous editions and Nomita's post shows how. My favourites are there along with a few I hadn't noticed. I've been using IE8 full time for about a month...
In preparation for a presentation a plasma display decided that colour was all too hard and degraded into 2 bit black white display mode. The presenter apologised, while rebooting in an attempt to fix...
This post is about disabling an annoying dialog that started appearing at startup. By default, when Windows starts on an iAMT-enabled system , a dialog box is displayed. To disable it: Click Sta...
AutoCAD
I saw this AutoCAD Visual Styles Survey posted on David Harringnton's blog and rushed to have my say. I'm considering 64 Bit Operating Systems for the 2010 Deployments as our larger projects are pu...
I've reverted to an HTML Flickr photo display "badge" for my side-bar as it appears Internet Explorer 8 doesn't like the Flash version. It showed blank unless toggled to "compatibility mode" which is...
Windows
It was a boring task made tolerable by listening to podcasts*. I had to open a bunch of files, check the xrefs were loaded OK (very old content), publish a DWF of selected sheets and export the file t...
I'm not sure if this will apply to other Intranets, or future Autodesk Design Review versions but, for what it's worth, it fixed a problem I had on ours. On my machine the browser would launch a blank...
I found this converstation, from December 2008, with a post-Microsoft Bill Gates well worth viewing. While it starts with well trodden Microsoft related topics (inc Vista Google) the latter sections o...
When I saw the headline I assumed it would be about an upgrade from Windows XP! Computerworld NZ Post rejects XP upgrade criticism By Ulrika Hedquist Auckland | Tuesday, 17 February, 2009 New Ze...
