imac mounting

Basically there are two ways to mount an iMac to a table or wall, one cheap the other a little bit more expensive.

Following up to a tweet on ‘Legal disclaimers: Spare us the e-mail yada-yada’ in the Economist, we have started to develop and implement a few signature principles, which we think more people and organisations should adopt.

control time machine

Regain control over Time Machine by using Klieme’s TimeMachineScheduler to tmutil (the latter is 10.7 only).

Although Adobe and Microsoft make some good software, in an architectural office it is not always necessary nor financially feasible to buy their products thus we investigated some alternatives.

AC15 replacement logo(s)

same options as before plus white with black outline and this time in 512 x 512 px glory…

lion in architecture

last wednesday apple released its next major OS revision in form of OSX 10.7, aka LION. despite some very exciting new features (amongst others we really like the new gestures, resume, auto save and gestures for the full list go here) we are at the moment still in the process of thoroughly putting LION through [...]

video download

lately we found ourselves often in situations where internet speed is too slow to effectively use online videos for educational purposes. to avoid the frustration of not being able to use these online resources, we have found the following indispensable: ClipGrab an application which allows download from any URL, and complete format control. PwnYouTube this [...]

office bug reappears

unbelievable, but a bug long gone is back from the dead – if you attempt to save files in word 2011 for mac and get various error messages relating to permissions, it is most likely that you might have the word ‘file’ in your filepath… no pun intended.

text substitution

tired of typing the same phrase again and again many times a day? how about setting up a somewhat hidden feature called text substitution built right into 10.6. to get started we recommend creating a text file (e.g. an email) which includes your most common used phrases or ‘text snippets’. once you have collected a [...]

ipad in architecture

ever since we got our first ipad 2 we have been testing various setups and apps – as usual with the architectural community in mind.