Mr S, I suppose a twilight zone is a great way to describe it. I work from home, I have an office just off the family room so I can work and still be part of the general family activities. I have a laptop in the lounge so that I can carry on working and watch movies with the family too. I work with clients from all time zones and very often you will see me online at 3am in the morning (like right now it's after 4am) which is normally because I'm on a call or conference with a client in Aus or India, etc, or I'm working to a deadline. As things get even more bleak in the economy so does my work hours as I need to source work from markets and industries than normally I would refuse which as a result has me forced to learn new apps, and outputs in order to stay a viable resource. I indeed do have the ability to retain info fast, as long as I understand how something works it's stuck in my head, but as far as details like names and dates go, I'm useless at that.

Its made by Quark Express. Its not just a vector editor, there is a whole suite of tools, the image editor is very good and a 3d app, video editor and music software are also on the way. I think they are envisaging cloud based computer aided design. It's not entirely free, eventually some apps will only be available by subscription. http://aviary.com/home Impressive list of apps here http://aviary.com/tools There is a community too that is very active, interesting stuff but mainly graphic designers at the moment. One nice feature is that members can create an online portfolio. http://www.ilovedesign.com/uk/

Works like a charm but it's not that we can name an intuitive prog I believe that only the creator of it knows use it at the perfection But it's a true gem made by an alone guy! A sort of mini Zbrush in fury Just dig in it! Like an adventure game [image: curv.jpg] [image: curvy1.jpg]

anyone gotten much into Picasa here? I saw a couple things on it on the basecamp youtube videos and was pretty impressed. Most of the examples on the website were less than stellar but I went ahead and downloaded the trial and it seemed pretty nifty. I never got very far into it though. -Brodie

Great find. Thanks

Thanks for advices, I'm going to experience them MALAISE

If I read the limitations correctly it also will not let you import any models.

Hulls does a great job for hard chined boats. I used it to design the cradle boat I built for my son and I've drawn a few other boats. I've also used DelftShip--used to be called Free!Ship but for easy. Hulls has it. [image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/weekender410/99abc119.jpg] [image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/weekender410/08eaff89.jpg] Free!Ship to SketchUp to KT [image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/weekender410/Vesper.jpg]

I know, i was getting quite worried for a moment

Thank You for this!

Excellent..!! Worked like a charm for me... Thanks for sharing..!!

I will try it, thanks!

Very nice, Alan...thanks!

install&... tips - http://davidf.sjsoft.com/files/pyvnc2swf/samples/vnc2swf.html

Thanks Alan Let's try it

Sketchboard is a dead thing. It had been mentioned on the old sketchup forums... Last update is on 19 Mar 2005....

It has "issues" with certain graphic-heavy PDF files, and printing limitations. No frills is what you get...Foxit is bigger but handles more PDF types.

Yeah, it says something about the site - and indeed there are very different programs downloadable there so everyone use it to his/her own risk. However, things like this (from McAfee) drive me nuts; it does not allow to visit the site advisor page only in Hungarian. Either by IP of OS native language, I could be a foreigner in Hungary now being stumped. This is not "service" but forcing one to read something in one particular language.

Thanks for the link Jon. A friend just gave me his un-used Verizon XV6700 pocketpc phone. They never used it one bit. Never even had service. Not sure if I'll put cell service on it but it's a cool wifi PDA. I was looking for a good ppc freeware site. Thanks Glenn

Jim's Unfold script...