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  • Stop paying for subscriptions

    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”…

  • DIY Weekend: resurrecting a dead JBL Go Bluetooth speaker

    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…

  • Digitalisation of the construction industry

    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…

  • Things are changing. Constantly

    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,…

  • You have been scammed

    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…

  • Mobile apps that you should be using

    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…

  • Don’t use VLOOKUP

    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…

  • Save And Close All Open AutoCAD Drawings

    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…