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Practical guidance from the engine room of architectural practice: systems, standards, infrastructure, and operational habits that keep studios moving. Written for teams who need technology, people, and project delivery to work as one.
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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…
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British English
at last a solution to a long lasting gripe – the default american spell checking in 10.6… system preferences > language &…
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Autodesk iPhone apps
following up on our previous post regarding AutoCAD’s return to the mac, here some more news from the AutoDesk imperiu
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WebDAV on iPhone
the other day we documented how to setup webdav on leopard – now it is time to turn our attention to the…
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shorten URL service
if you have ever wrangled long URLs, this is an exceptional macOSXhint explaining how to create a service to shorten those multi…
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Autocad for Mac
a lot of reports (here & here) on the autodesk announcement about autocad on the mac, check out the TV commercial here…
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WebDAV on Leopard
to setup webdav for either file or ical sharing on your own mac running mac os 10.5 (leopard) do the following -…
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Terminal tricks
a decent collection of mac osx terminal commands over at superuser.
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Apple Mail shortcuts
you can use your keyboard to quickly accomplish many tasks in mail, here are the ones we find the most useful: Create…
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compress PDFs
problem: how do you significantly compress large PDFs without adobe acrobat?