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I had to format and re-install Vista on a laptop over the holiday break. Given that it was an OEM version, and the original disks were not available, I was faced with a bit of a conundrum. How will I …
Revit makes it very easy to produce a LOT of drawings. This can result in a large deliverable. In one recent case, our Tender Issue of drawings consisted of 132 A1 sheets. Using CutePDF (with a couple…
After trying many free PDF Writers over the years, I have found CutePDF Writer to be the best. In order to ensure you are producing the best PDF files you can (high quality while still keeping file si…
Did you know that in Windows Vista you can quickly copy the file name and path of a file, and put it into the Clipboard as text? Simply: Select the file in Explorer Hold ‘Shift’ and right-click Choose…
We use a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo as our fileserver. Recently we started to experience some annoying and disturbing error messages, such as: Access to {path}{CentralFileName}-backupeperms.dat was denied E…
No doubt there are a few utilities that you just can’t do without. Here are a few of my absolute favourites: CutePDF Writer – just brilliant, and its free! 7-Zip – best archive utility (in my books), …
You might remember g2p.org Well, now you can check out http://www.searchhacker.com/filesearch/ Just for kicks, I searched for .rvt, and wow! One hit! And that one didn’t even work……