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Life/Tech/Ideas
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Today, I received an email from Google stating, “2 of your apps are affected by Google Play’s target API level requirements. We’ve detected that 2 of your apps are targeting an old version of Android.” Yes, I have created some mobile apps, and this email means that if your app was built for an older…
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Do you remember the time when the internet was a free place? Information was there, and you just needed to use AltaVista or Yahoo to find it. There was Limewire, DC++ or Napster. There were free MP3s floating around the internet. There was MySpace! The programmes that we were using on the PC were “free”…
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I had this JBL Go speaker laying around and haven’t touched it since I don’t know when. I generally like JBL as the sound quality is amazing and the price is way lower than some super high end brands (like BOSE). The only problem with this Bluetooth speaker, and generally with the Bluetooth speakers is…
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We are living in the digital age. Everything nowadays is an app and the phones we have in our pockets are multiple times faster than the processor used to get the man to the moon. And yet, thousands of small/medium businesses haven’t jumped on the digital boat. Especially in the construction sector, pen and paper…
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It has been 40 years since the first major breakthrough in construction software. It was 1982 and AutoCAD was first released. 1982 marks the beginning of construction innovation and automation. In the last 40 years lots of things changed. AutoCAD was only the beginning. Since then, we have seen the rise of the BIM software,…
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You receive an email. It is from someone that you have exchanged some emails with, someone you know or someone that someone you know knows. It is an offer for a new project to check and price. You think “nice”! You press on the link, you go to a page that says “Microsoft OneDrive” or…
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There are several apps on my mobile phone that I use. But on the below list there are 10 apps that I cannot thing that I could use a smartphone without them. Firefox When it comes to browser, I do not use Safari or Chrome. I prefer something that I quite more private (Chrome is…
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I recently had the chance to get my first MacBook. So far, I only had iPhones and iPads but never a Mac. I also have an amazing iPod colour, the one with the touch wheel. It still works! Anyway, until one month ago I had never seen how macOS works and why there is all…
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VLOOKUP is probably one of the mostly used Excel functions. It is used when the user needs to find things in a table or a range by row. For example, look up a price of an automotive part by the part number, or find an employee name based on their employee ID. Its usage is…
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Recently, I found myself having 10-15 AutoCAD drawings open at the same time and wanted to close them all. An easy way to do it is with two commands. To do so, first you type SAVEALL at AutoCAD’s command line and all the open documents are saved. Secondly, the CLOSEALL command follows that will close…
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Last Autumn, I made myself a present and bought an iPad. The 2021 model which was on a very good and discounted price of £315. It seemed like a bargain back then. Six months later I have a good picture of how good or bad this product is and if I would buy it again.…
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Black mirror [1] prepared us for what would follow. And late 2022 was the beginning. Life won’t be the same from this point. Or it has changed a long time ago without us being able to realize it? It is November 2022 [2]. OpenAI introduces their new application called ChatGPT. The tech world, and not…
