After Revit it is ArchiCAD

Its been some time that I have been using Autodesk Revit for both Architectural & Interior Projects. It is no doubt a wonderful software. Then came SketchUp ; it changed the perception of design process into something so quick and easy that even Revit seems a bit outdated (only in user friendliness - not BIM). One of the major aspect of SketchUp is it let one work in 3D perspective; which traditional Architects are not quite used to but those once get used to it will hate to go back to AutoCAD or even Revit.

ArchiCAD on the other hand had been offering the same user friendliness from it inception. Hence when it caught my eye, I got inspired with it and started learning it. Only drawback, for some who prefer designing objects visually rather programming them, is GDL i.e. Geometric Description Language (Basic like programming language that is used to built it 3D Object Library).

So lets see how well I'll do in ArchiCAD. Will post my experiences in details later on.

An other reason: Why I love Gmail Labs :)

Gmail has become such a versatile one stop email solution that its hard to imagine living with out it. Specially when people at Google are always coming up with great ideas/features. One of such nice feature that came up yesterday in Gmail Labs is Unread message icon. After New Email Title tweak this is just another one that displays useful info right time at the right place i.e. Title bar :)

Thanks Google

TED: Ideas worth spreading

TED: Ideas worth spreading

Loved this forum & congratulations to fellow blogger who have become TED fellows:
1- Dr. Awab Alvi  from the famous Teeth Meastro Blog :)
2- Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy

Good Luck & Have a nice TED xPerience  :)

Google vs Bing

Good point of view and new ways of using these tools at the fullest :)

Browser war!

Even after the launch of IE8, things doesn't seem to favour it though. Since almost all the features ( & even thousands of more) that Microsoft boast about are already there in either Firefox, Safari or Chrome. So why some using those advanced browser would like to switch back. See even the term switch back, as used in this article's last paragraph indicates the fight ahead for microsoft and let me assure you IE8 is not even a close competitor for a tool to fight that war.

I switched long ago to Firefox and now using Chrome Beta alogside. And that has given my mind such a piece of peace that can't be explained rather experienced. So try it now!

Fire Fox

Chrome

Chrome Beta ( I personally liked this one, as is improved and keeps getting better)

Learning to Revit

Being an Architect and that in circa 2000 is huh a lot more that just an architect :)

Does that make any sense?

No! Same here :)

See how I become after sooooo many years in this field.

PS. Yea that thing about Revit. Trying to get my hand on BIM

FreeHand's Funeral

Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia also cast doubt on the future of FreeHand, primarily because of Adobe's competing Illustrator product. Adobe initially announced in May 2006 that it planned to continue to support FreeHand and develop it "based on [their] customers' needs".^[1] However, one year later on May 15, 2007, Adobe declared that it would in fact discontinue development and support of the program.^[2]

Its sad to learn that Adobe soon after acquiring Macromedia has started shunning there simple, beautiful, user-friendly and light weighted products as a friend of mine bought Adobe CS3 Collection and didn't find FreeHand in there nor is mentioned on adobe.com

So I think FreeHand has died before reaching CS2 or CS3 Upgrades, instead we are provided with a hard to learn tutorial on How to switch from Freehand to Illustrator! Amazing

Also I learned that Macromedia's nice, easy to use/ understand/ search, comprehensive, user-friendly and Highly Detailed Help Documents are also replaced by Not so easy ... Help that opens in a separate window and gives us an option to search all adobe softwares at once, while we just want to search a keyword in Photoshop for instance! Amazing 2 :(

Please any Free / Open Source Software developers do something like FreeHand. or Anyone please buy back Macromedia from Adobe.

I love Macromedia. They were like Google; open, user-friendly, wanted there softwares to be easy and easily learned through there comprehensive help system. I like this kind of a company. I use to hate Photoshop Help System and NOW it has become a standard help system at Adobe. Amazing3 :(

It's been 3 years ...!

wow!
looking at my blog after 3 years is ... great :)
I don't know if I will be able to continue updating it :(

but ...

I'll definitely try :)

Addiction of a new era

After I got a gmail account (that was almost 3 months ago), I started visiting gmail help discussion forum in google groups (though still in beta but better) in order to get more comfortable with gmailing. Believe me I have never found such helpfull, courtiuos and really nice people, who love to help and share with others. Not just help they are infact a Hijack-posts group there, you post something stupid or like and they sure going to take it out of your hands till nobody will ever remember who and why posted it. They are a group inside the group, the G.H.D.A's. Beware! They have an association now.

Urdu Moot @ Islamabad

Opening today at the National Library of Pakistan Auditorium, Islamabad first-ever "International Urdu Conference". Pakistan, with Urdu recogonised, not implemented as yet, as a national language, is one of the 19 countries widely read, speak and understand it. Hope that Pakistani government would take some essential steps towards bringing it's status up to a national language, implementing it officially. Now the increase in Urdu blogging has shown once again, Arabic has already been there in computers for some times, its potential to be digit-able language.
رہتا ہے شب و روز تماشہ میرے آگے ۔ بازیچہ اطفال ہے دنیا میرے آگے
Is that readable?

Shabina Begum; jazaak Allahul khyr

Finally after three years of of tiresome battle 16 years old Shabina Begum has won the right (in a woman right concious and so-called civilised society) to wear jilbab (a head to toe dress muslim woman wears); a very basic (article 2 & 18) human right for anyone devoted to and willing to actually practising ones religion. Contrary to what French Republic has dictated, British Monarch seems to be more passionate towards religious outlook of its minorities, which is a healthy sign emerging in (and in a sense better for) Europe.

no E Jordan from CNN

see what a single TRUTH may leads to.

He believed that several journalists who were killed by coalition forces in Iraq had been targeted...

after saying that, he has to retort back to

... accidentally killed journalists

and then to "... those killed because they were shot at by American forces who mistook them for the enemy" that finally lead to his "quitting to avoid CNN being "unfairly tarnished" by the controversy" Read the rest here

Malicious Removal Tool

Just a cool new feature or a building block of a monoply in antivirus industry as well? Norton and McCafe are suppose to be aware of it.

Google Ginger!

what you think guys will there be a Google's new instant messenger be comming up too? Well I suggest a name:
Ginger [Google INstant messenGER]. What you think of this? would love to see it come to life.
Update:we finally settled for GIM. Read Comments!

looT gnisreveR txeT

amazing! is'nt it? oh no no its not some foreign language syntax, just a result from that Text Reversing Tool applied to itself. Thanks to BeeBee

It's fun to shoot some people

I don't know what he meant by some. But Lt Gen James Mattis, a senior US Marine Corps, who led troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, made the comments at a conference on Tuesday in San Diego. Read the details here.

a senior NCA wala mailed me this

Ayaz Kidwai, my senior from NCA, has mailed me these links;
a bill to avoid humiliating images vs a statement by Shoukat Azizfrom the Dawn's online edition to be compared. I don't know how to respond. Do you?

cost of Iraq war II

ever wonder how much of your taxed $$$s go there? check it out here.

IBC do it for Gen. Franks

We don’t do body counts.

General Tommy Franks, US Central Command, let IBC do it for you General.

gBrowser !!!

what do you think? will firefox be a Gbrowser in near future?