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Ah, there it is: SketchUp 6
It is here! After a bit of a wait, Google (formerly @Last software) released SketchUp 6 – again in a free-for-all and a professional version. Here is the official announcement. Upgrades (at least for US customers) are free and there’s a nifty wizard to accomplish a smooth upgrade. Sketchy view in SketchUp 6 using one […] Read more..
Welcome!
Welcome to my new website! It is bigger, better, cooler and a bit bolder. In case you are surprised – I moved from the .de domain to a .net domain (and I am running it on WordPress). That happened for various reasons. In any case, old .de links will redirect to the newer links and […] Read more..
Inserting Holidays/Events Into Outlook
I got frustrated when my Outlook 2002 ran out of holidays December 2005. Searching around the internet I found some pages explaining how it is done. Holidays (or any kinds of "all-day" type events can be collected in a formatted text file and then simply imported into Outlook with one click. If you want to […] Read more..
Old News
Just some old news for the archive: What’s New? All news will now be posted in the Miscellaneous category. For older news, look at the following: I am uploading my publications from now on to lulu.com. This still provides free or low-cost downloads of PDF-files, but more importantly it adds the option of ordering a […] Read more..
Monthly Image in PHP
This is a small change that I applied to the WordPress theme on this site. It changes the header image every month. If you like to use this, put the following tag into your header or modify any image in any template- (php-file) on your site.
New & Old Website
I discovered WordPress! Now this site runs on it. Let’s see how that works out. What I wanted was a lightweight CMS with a good gallery component (and some login/privacy modules). WordPress and all the available plugins seem to fulfill the need perfectly. While I am migrating my old website here there may be some […] Read more..