HyperPics: Beyond the UI

Earbags... A what?

Hope everyone is having a safe and Happy Holiday season so far...

I got a gift called Earbags for the holidays this year not overly sure of the things.  Someone knew I am wasn't a huge fan of hats outdoors when I am going places and Ear Muffs are way to bulky to put in your pockets.  Anyways back to the Earbags... now if you are one that enjoys the cold weather outdoors in the snow, these might be right up your alley.  They simply slip over your ears and for the most part work really well.  They are designed to allow you to still hear things so they are great if you work construction in the winter months outdoors.

Check them out for yourself at the Earbags website.

Sincerely,
  Lee

AutoCAD Customization/ProgrammingTraining

I am proud to announce that  I have partnered up with Virtual Partners to offer AutoCAD training in the areas of both General and Customization/Programming.  The schedule will change with demands on classes, but we have slotted classes from January through February.  These classes range from customizing AutoCAD, using AutoLISP and VBA to great automation and improving work flow to general AutoCAD upgrade classes.  If you have any questions please contact James Murphy at [email protected] or myself at [email protected].

Class schedule and information can be found on the Virtual Partners website.  Contact us today to learn how to unlock the secrets and benefits of customizing AutoCAD; education is a great tool so start the New Year off on the right foot.

Sincerely,
  Lee

Happy Holidays

I know it was a exciting couple of days of traveling between families and very enjoyable.  To you and your loved ones have a safe and happy holidays whether you are traveling or not.  May the New Year bring happiness and good health.

Sincerely,
  Lee 

AU Handouts and Materials On-line

The course handouts have been posted to the AU site so for those that did attend AU this year in Las Vegas watch your e-mail inbox closely.  The link below will take you to the AU 2004 site for the Course Handouts.  Please don't ask me for the password.

AU 2004 Course Handouts

How to see those that attened this year and hope to see many more of you there at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin in Orlando.

Sincerely,
  Lee

Seagate USB 2.0 Pocket Hard Drive

    I think it is time to retire my 256MB USB drive for a new 5GB potable storage device.  Just imagine... it would be possible now to carry a large portion of your MP3s over to a friend's house or to work with you.  The other nice thing about having 5GB of storage is that you could actually install an OS and have some room left on it.  For about $170 dollars it is well worth it as a backup device that is portable and small enough to store in a laptop bag.  I wonder if Santa will be getting me one this year...

5GB portable storage in the palm of your hand: by Stephen Schleicher

Sincerely,
  Lee

CAD Blog Community just got Bigger

  Tracy Lincoln has launched a CAD Blog.  Tracy plays a large role everyday in the Autodesk Newsgroups helping users out.  I'm sure Tracy will have plenty to share, once the Blog really gets rolling.  Check out Tracy's Blog TLConsulting at http://tlconsulting.blogspot.com/.

Sincerely,
  Lee

General AutoCAD LT Quick Guide (First Time Available)

  Just a couple of days ago I reposted the General AutoCAD Quick Guide.  It included things like used Command Aliases, Accelerated Keys (Keyboard Shortcuts), Coordinate System (Types of Point Entry), Drag 'n Droppable files, Object Snaps and Selection Methods.  Due to some reworking on my site and based on the huge number of downloads that the AutoCAD Quick Guide is getting; I decided to make available for the first time a version of the Quick Guide for AutoCAD LT 2005 users.  There are no other versions available at this time for AutoCAD LT, but hope to make some older versions available at a future date.  Thanks to those that have sent me comments about the AutoCAD 2005 version of the Quick Guide.

Click here to access the AutoCAD LT 2005 version of the Quick Guide

Sincerely,
  Lee

December Issue of HotNews

The December issue of AUGI HotNews is just bursting at the seams with articles.  The articles cover Autodesk University, the Top DAUG competition at AU, Customization and much more.

Find out more about the AU event... AUGI even has posted a slide show on their site and noted some of the highlights during the event.

Who's the 2005 Top DAUG?  Congrats David Harrington for reaching First Place, check out who else made the Top 10 list for this years event.

Other Articles:
Controlling Customization
TIPniques: Prefixes, Part 2
Customization Corner: Menu Customizing, Part 2

If you are not receiving AUGI HotNews or are not a member of AUGI go to the AUGI website and sign up. It is free to receive the newsletters and becoming a member is free as well.

Click here to access the AUGI website

Click here if you are already an AUGI member, but don't receive HotNews in your inbox

Sincerely,
  Lee

All Browsers Not Created Equally

I have been spending a create deal of time working on my website and getting things just so.  Well with most application development a lot of time is spent making sure it functions on a variety of desktops and in this case Web Browsers.  While testing my site I have noticed a couple things that stand out among the different browsers.  The browsers that I looked at were the latest versions of Microsoft IE, Nescape, Mozilla FireFox and Opera.  The things that I noticed that didn't work consistently between the different browsers were table layouts, especially using percentage vs. pixel size and the borders.  There might be other slight differences, but these are the ones that stood out right away to me.

This is more of an FYI for those that might be new to web development; just because it looks good on one it might not look good on another.  I did notice that IE and Opera displayed pages in a very similar fashion while Netscape and Mozilla displayed pages in a very similar fashion.  These are the four standard browsers that I test against and happy web development.

Sincerely,
  Lee

General AutoCAD Quick Guide

  So what are Quick Guides you might be asking?  Typically, Quick Guides are focused on a specific topic and deliver a quick shot of information and might be enough for a general overview at times of some features.  They might also be references that are able to get you up and running very quickly with new features or even old ones that might have been forgotten.  I have been publishing a variety of Quick Guides for many years and releases now.

  Quick Guides are great if you teach AutoCAD classes to new students.  One of the Quick Guides that I have is for many of the commonly used Command Aliases, Accelerated Keys (Keyboard Shortcuts), Coordinate System (Types of Point Entry), Drag 'n Droppable files, Object Snaps and Selection Methods.

Click here to access the AutoCAD 2005 version of the Quick Guide
Need an older version... we might have you covered with Quick Guides going back as far as R14 and through 2004.  To view the many other Quick Guides click here.  Have any ideas or suggestions for information you would like to see covered in a future Quick Guide send me at e-mail at [email protected].

Sincerely,
  Lee