Software

VMware Fusion missing .vmx repair

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If for some reason you can not start a virtual machine in VMware Fusion and it instead throws the following error message about a missing .vmx file at you, here is what you can try to get it going again. 1. Open VMware FUSION, then go to File > New and in the opening window … Read more

MagicPlan Review

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We have been testing a new iPhone and iPad app called MagicPlan, which aims to dramatically simplify the measuring up process and to some extent even the creation of basic plans.

MS Office and Adobe alternatives

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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.

Autocad for Mac

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a lot of reports (here & here) on the autodesk announcement about autocad on the mac, check out the TV commercial here – uses flash so will not work on your ipad & iphone! now the only thing left waiting for is revit for mac. on a sidenote: although we are really looking forward to … Read more

shrink PDFs

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do you regularly handle PDFs and have wondered if there is a quick way to reduce their sometimes excessive file size? if you are running mac os 10.6 download panic’s excellent and free shrinkit and enjoy. a really neat feature is that shrinkit adds ‘org’ to the original PDFs names.

archicad 13 (intro)

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Not really breaking news, but since Graphisoft Australia have after approximately 2 weeks finally managed to update their website to reflect the launch of ArchiCAD 13 we thought we jump on the review train and provide some insights ourselves.