Using 3d modelling software and an image editor makes it pretty easy to make model templates. Since most buildings are generally based on boxes, you don’t even need to be a modelling expert!
Watch the video below. You can also download the template files from here!
Pain free Tables of Contents in most word processors
In this post I will show you how to make a pain-free table of contents for your documents. I will be using Google Docs but the exact same techniques apply to Microsoft Word, Pages, and Libre Office, with just some things being labelled differently. If you prefer to follow along with a video, you can watch that here:
This is a very simple operation but a lot of people seem to miss it, and try to build their table of contents manually. This might work ok if you’re working on a short document, but if you’re writing anything longer it very quickly becomes a mess. And even if you manage to nail it down, you add an image or change the font size, and boom, you have to renumber all the entries.
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I used to think that 3d scanning was something that had to be done in a lab or using some very expensive equipment, but thanks to Steve from CG Geek, I learnt that it can be done with some awesome free software and equipment I already have.
In his tutorial, Steve demonstrates how you can capture a large object, and I highly recommend watching it because he explains the process very well. What I’ll be discussing in this post is capturing a small object using a slightly different technique which should be easier for this size. If you prefer to follow along with a video, I got you covered:
The Little Book of JavaScript
I finally bit the bullet, sat down to do some writing again, and had a go at self publishing. The result is The Little Book of JavaScript, a short book containing a few odds and ends which I believe are useful for a novice or intermediate scripter.
jQuery Plugins on jQuery Plugins
No, it’s not some kind of wierd coder pr0n. Just released some of my scripts on the jQuery plugin repository at http://plugins.jquery.com/users/karlagius/track
Aiming to release the contact list plugin on to the WordPress repository next, when and if I have time to clean it and update it to the latest version of wordpress and jQuery.
Staying on top of the (Google) Wave
Google Wave is an awesome tool, but right now I don’t have enough contacts on it to make checking it part of my daily routine. This causes me to miss the occasional activity of those friends who do use it, however rarely. Today I found an interesting wave which had been sleeping in there for the last five days, so I decided to look around and see if there are any notifiers available. The one I picked was Waver, which happens to be free, and works on both Mac and Windows.
Are you using Google Wave? What are your thoughts on it so far? Can you recommend any other desktop clients or notifiers for it?
iPhone won’t recharge after OS update
I’ve (belatedly) updated my iPhone 3g’s OS today. Just after the update, it started to heat up, and was not recharging no matter how long it was left on the charger. Restarting (hold down the home and the power buttons simultaneously for about 10s) seems to fix both issues.
First law of IT support – try restarting the bloody thing.
Things to do in Barcellona when you’re dev
I’m sitting in Barcellona’s international conference centre right now, waiting for the keynote speech for TechEd EMEA 2008 to kick off the 5 days of the Geek.
It feels fun already, my only gripe is that I can’t go to ALL of the sessions unless I learn to be omnipresent or something :'( Then again, most of the stuff on discussion are so cool that my head would probably melt down if I took it all in.
After the silence …
And so it’s done. Things have been quiet here for some time, and it’s not just another attack of apathy on my side this time. We’ve pushed out two new products, but I’ll let the Chief of chiefs tell you about those.
What Marlon has not mentioned is that Speed Up My PC, affectionately known as The Sump, is, as of last Wednesday, Certified for Windows Vista. The process is certainly stressful (the testing is a lot more intense than I remember the older Certified for Windows tests – but maybe that’s just my memory covering up for trauma), but not as much as I’d anticipated. .Net goes a long way through helping you do things properly. In any case, congratulations all around to everyone involved 🙂
There will be some more silence for another week or so while everyone gets some overdue R&R, and then… well, then I’ll see if there’s anything I can be bothered to write about. One problem at a time 😛