All IT and computing articles – Page 4
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Features
What’s in store for IT developments in 2010
If augmented reality is one of the emerging trends for 2010, what are the others?
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Features
Help with the stairs
Making change easy is the claim of the recently released Vectorworks 2010 cad software. Jonathan Reeves finds out whether it delivers
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Features
What are the odds of defeating spam?
Spam email is a significant problem for many architects’ practices, accounting for more than 50% of incoming email
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Features
Make the most of your resources
There are many resource programming tools on the market, with some simpler to master than others
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Features
Global team talks — virtually
With travel budgets tight or non-existent, has virtual conferencing developed enough to offer an acceptable alternative?
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Features
Who says backing up is hard to do?
We all know how important backups are to protect a business in the event of a catastrophic event, but the realities of everyday life mean that this isn’t at the front of everybody’s mind last thing on a Friday
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Technical
Breaking away from the slideshow presentation
How software can solve problems with images in screen-based presentations
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Features
21st century clear-desk policy
Cloud computing is just one of the technologies that is going to reshape the way we work
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Features
Are architects ready to tweet?
Web 2.0 — the use of the web in an intelligent way to facilitate communication, sharing and collaboration rather than just acting as an electronic “read me” brochure —has definitely arrived
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Review
The paper chase is over – what now?
Managing document issue may have changed but there’s no need to mourn the days of paper filing
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Features
Why slime oozes appeal for the planet’s future
Anna Winston meets Rachel Armstrong the doctor turned sci-fi writer and pioneer of ‘living architecture’
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Features
Smart Geometry's show and tell
The latest Smart Geometry meet-up in San Francisco saw architects and other design practitioners keen to swap notes
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Boost your architectural cad skills
Bentley’s Be Employable scheme is worth checking out at this time of stress in the world of architecture
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Features
How to budget IT as recession bytes
With budgets under consideration as April approaches, good IT planning can help maximise your use of human capital
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Features
How architects can open up to online IT services
Architectural practices can spend less on IT and still get more from technology — just the ticket in a recession
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Review
Let’s get physical, physical... rapid prototyping helps bring your projects to life
Hugh Davies explores the latest in computer modelling
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Review
Autodesk’s LandXplorer: kit that’s right up your street
New city modelling technology is given a test run
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Review
Google’s whack at 3D begins to stand out
The ability to create unique drawing styles is just one of the attractions of Google SketchUp 7
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Review
Making possible demands on architecture software
Caruso St John’s Florian Zierer has been won over by the fine quality of the drawings produced by ArchiCad’s BIM technology