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Distilled knowledge from deep Mac and Archicad practice, captured as practical guides for real studio work.
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Drawing Numbering System
Ideally a DNS needs to accommodate projects from small scale residential to very large and complex institutional projects which may be staged…
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Safari 6 password prompts
If you are using a password managament app, such as 1Password, you might find the new password prompts in Safari 6 rather…
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AC16 replacement logo(s)
Another year another colour…
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MagicPlan Review
We have been testing a new iPhone and iPad app called MagicPlan, which aims to dramatically simplify the measuring up process and…
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iMac mounting
Basically there are two ways to mount an iMac to a table or wall, one cheap the other a little bit more…
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Mail signature best practice
Following up to a tweet on ‘Legal disclaimers: Spare us the e-mail yada-yada’ in the Economist, we have started to develop and…
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control Time Machine
Regain control over Time Machine by using Klieme’s TimeMachineScheduler to tmutil (the latter is 10.7 only).
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MS Office and Adobe alternatives
Although Adobe and Microsoft make some good software, in an architectural office it is not always necessary nor financially feasible to buy…
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AC15 replacement logo(s)
same options as before plus white with black outline and this time in 512 x 512 px glory…
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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…
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video download
lately we found ourselves often in situations where internet speed is too slow to effectively use online videos for educational purposes. to…
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office bug reappears
unbelievable, but a bug long gone is back from the dead – if you attempt to save files in word 2011 for…
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text substitution
tired of typing the same phrase again and again many times a day? how about setting up a somewhat hidden feature called…
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iPad in Architecture [2011]
ever since we got our first ipad 2 we have been testing various setups and apps – as usual with the architectural…
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preview tricks
not too many mac users realise that apple’s preview can do most of their everyday basic image or pdf related manipulation tasks…
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apple mail quotefix
ever had an email conversation with multiple replies and eventually lost the ‘thread’ after too many quote levels? quotefix a little apple…
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iMac grunt for ArchiCAD
ever since we got our shiny 27″ imacs i7 earlier this year, we have been wondering how they perform against other much…
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Magic Mouse panning
although the magic mouse has solved the problem with the far too easily clogged up trackball on its predecessor, by simply doing…