May 14, 2008

Open Source Autocad Alternatives

Filed under: Apple, Linux, Open Source, Software, Windows - May 14, 2008 - ט' אייר תשס"ח

AutoCAD is the most well-known computer aided design (CAD) product on the market. Whether you are working in 2D or 3D - designing mobile phones or bridges - AutoCAD has the features you need to make it perfect. AutoCAD modeling capabilities has helped many people through the years and together with it’s rendering features it has provided visualization of their designs. A powerful feature of AutoCAD is it’s scripting capability with which you can either extend functionality of AutoCAD - or perform automated tasks.

QCad Community Edition
Available for: Linux and Unix

Is an open source edition of RibbonSoft’s CAD system. QCad is a 2D CAD application that aims at being simple enough for anyone to use - even users with no previous CAD experience. Compared to the Professional edition the Community Edition has no scripting or poly-line support - also features are a few months behind. Features include layers, dxf files import and export, many flexible drawing tools and precise selection tools.

May 9, 2008

60 Years Giving Great Technology

Filed under: General - May 9, 2008 - ד' אייר תשס"ח

Israel is marking its 60th Independence Day and here you have a great video of some of the things this country gives to our world.

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May 8, 2008

iPhone Themes for Free

Filed under: Apple, iPhone - May 8, 2008 - ג' אייר תשס"ח

There is a site that contains a lot of themes for your iPhone/iPod Touch for Free, You just have to register for free and in a few minutes you can share your items with the community.

The name of the site is iSpazio and you can access there just here.

ispazio_themes

 

You can upload or download a lot of themes for your device, to upload just zip your theme and upload it and immediately you can see an image of your theme.

For download the theme just click on the theme you like and you are going to download a zip file. Before installation unzip it.

To install it on your iPhone or iPod Touch just follow this:

Summerboard themes reside on your device in either this two folders:

/var/root/Library/SummerBoard/Themes/

/var/mobile/Library/SummerBoard/Themes/

You have a folder per theme so just copy the folder

May 6, 2008

Open Source Software Similar to MS Visio

Filed under: Apple, Linux, Open Source, Software, Windows - May 6, 2008 - א' אייר תשס"ח

This past days I need the Visio program from Microsoft but the price is a little bit over my budget so I tried to find some alternatives and here are the results.

ArgoUML

Available for: Windows Mac Linux Unix Java
ArgoUML is a great UML (Unified Modeling Language) tool. Written in Java and using Java Web Start makes it easy to work with (install) and use on any platform. It has full support for the UML 1.4 standard and provides excellent features to drawing and manipulating you UML diagrams. Like many other UML tools of this caliber ArgoUML provides code generation. The following programming languages are support for code generation: Java, C++, C# and PHP. The Java support is best since it can be used for round-trip engineering using the reverse engineering feature. ArgoUML also has partial support for user models such as decision model, goals model, etc. Finally diagrams can be exported in many graphical formats, primarily GIF, PNG, PS and

April 24, 2008

Disable Calculating Time Remaining Notification!

Filed under: Software, Tips, Windows - April 24, 2008 - י"ט ניסן תשס"ח

Well I tried to find a solution for this but the truth is that there is no way to disable this annoying notifications, I would like to know who was the IDIOT inside Microsoft who suggest this so I can kick his a**.

copywinvis

But not al news are bad, I found this great tool who has a free version that takes control over every copy command in windows.

TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features: Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives. Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click. Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating

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