Autodesk has announced AutoCAD 2011 for Mac. This new version of AutoCAD, software for professional design and engineering that previously ran only on the Windows platform, now runs natively on Mac OS X. Autodesk also announced that the new Mac version of AutoCAD would be accompanied by the AutoCAD WS mobile application, a new app for iPad, iPhone, and the iPod touch that will let users edit and share their AutoCAD designs remotely.

AutoCad回到Mac上了，而且iPhone/iPad版不僅有、還是不用錢的。

Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.

歷史建築和事件和現代世界其他地方的比較。

龜派氣功應該是真有其事。這玩意兒的軍用潛力應該不小，接下來就是波動砲了。

It's like the "Kamehameha" from the "Dragon Ball Z" comics and should have lots of military potential. How about the "Wave Cannon" from "Starblazer Yamato"?

You know, those little plastic tabs that come on bags of bread and bagels and nets of potatoes and produce. To be honest I was stumped -- at first. But with a little creativity I came up with ten clever reuses!

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1 These little tags have more uses than you think!

 

 

2 Not sure which cord is attached to which appliance? Label it!

小東西果然有大用途，很多以前都沒想到。不過光是幫電線加標籤這件事情，就已經值回票價了；下次去跟麵包店要個一堆。:P

It’s cute, it’s as small as an eraser, it’s light, and it’s waterproof: Tokyo-based accessory maker Japan Trust Technology is offering the CHOBi CAM WP, a digital camera that’s actually not waterproof by itself but comes with a special case that makes it possible to take it up to 20m underwater without any problems (IP68).

作為一個潛水人，看到防水相機總是會多瞄幾眼。這款相機好玩的地方除了小之外，就是附有一個可以防水20公尺的潛水殼。

撇開只能防水20公尺不談（一般水肺潛水用的相機正式防水殼，至少必須能耐壓到40公尺），這部相機還挺方便的，因為可以塞在浮力調節背心的口袋裡，不必叮叮噹噹掛在身上，所以當做隨興拍攝或是備用的相機頗為方便。

還有一點，就是它的價格雖然要大約200美金，不過還算是相對便宜；一般傻瓜數位相機光是防水殼就不只這個價錢，還要另外加上買相機的費用。不過一切還是要以拍攝效果為準，如果拍不出東西來，再怎麼便宜也沒用。以這部相機沒有配備閃光燈來看，最好的使用時機大概還是只有好天氣時的浮潛吧。

儘管iPad的受歡迎程度仍未可知，遑論以iPad版呈現的雜誌銷路與廣告效果，但這款下月初將上市的蘋果新平板電腦，已成為許多雜誌業者的搖錢樹以及廣告商兵家必爭之地。

消息人士指出，包括聯合利華（Unilever）、豐田汽車、大韓航空（Korea Air）與富達（Fidelity）等多家廣告商，已買下時代雜誌（Time）的iPad版廣告，前八期中每期的單一廣告欄位索價約20萬美元。

另有消息指出，華爾街日報的iPad版每月訂閱費將為17.99美元，目前已有可口可樂、聯邦快遞（FedEx）與甲骨文（Oracle）等六家業者同意透過該報打廣告，四個月的廣告合約為40萬美元。

知情人士說，出版商康德納斯（Conde Nast）旗下的有線雜誌（Wired magazine）將依據廣告主購買的頁數，提供不同等級功能的廣告：廣告主若同意購買單期雜誌八頁的廣告，將可在iPad版的雜誌中使用影片或其他額外資源。

時代公司的運動畫刊雜誌（Sprots Illustrated）提供廣告主三種採用大量影片的廣告原型，其中為福特的野馬跑車（Mustang）製作的廣告中包含了電玩風格的賽車遊戲，需以iPad傾斜與翻轉等功能操作；玩家還可在觸控面板上，以手指選取車身顏色及輪胎種類。

iPad會不會真的變成搖錢樹還不能太篤定，但必然會改變很多流程、模式、以及遊戲規則。

據英國《每日郵報》報道，歐洲最大的軍事選連之一的特種部隊跳傘演習在挪威舉行。此次跳傘中，特種兵攜帶嗅探犬從一萬英尺(約3048米)高的高空往下跳。

    這只嗅探犬曾是奧地利空降特勤隊的成員，跳傘訓練時它的嘴被保護器罩著，以防止它落地時受傷。一名馴獸師稱，在跳傘訓練中高度對嗅探犬來說並不是最大的問題，發動機的轟鳴聲才是嗅探犬最需要去克服的恐懼。但這種恐懼會隨著高度的下降而減弱。

I would do this with my stupid dog Oreo. :P

在工作上我們都有不錯的電腦設備, 但當初就是為了避免盲點, 我特地組了一台低階電腦放在家裡單純上網用, 好讓我可以用一般消費者的角度看事情. 以下是幾個我覺得不該允許但卻是最常見的Flash網站設計問題:

01. 還我上下頁
Flash網站通常已經夠難逛了, 當一個人迷路想按上一頁都不行時真的只是逼他們關閉視窗. 再來, 內頁沒有獨立網址所以當他想傳某內容給朋友看還要教對方先點A再按B再點選下面的小圖時, 他們八成選擇不分享.

02. 請讓我選文字
大多的使用著有邊選字邊閱讀的習慣. 再來, 可以做複製. 無論是HTML還是Flash, 不讓使用者選字是不負責的行為.

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文章中提到的11點問題，常關注Flash網站設計問題的人大概都知道，只是許多網站設計者剛好不知道、或是在客戶要求下不得不做。本文的回應也很有參考價值。

"Why people are dumping Flash". People may not be really dumping Flash yet, but designers are realizing that Flash is not necessary a good or attractive thing to Web site visitors.

Although a lot of people are excited about ebooks, it’s very difficult to get hard information on how the market for them is growing. We don’t even know how many Kindles Amazon has sold, let alone more detailed specifics on the market.

So I was very happy Wednesday when the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) gave details from its recent survey of ebook adoption in the US. The survey was first revealed in January, but the press release was very sketchy and sometimes confusing. In its presentation at the Tools of Change conference, the BISG gave much more details on the results.

Well, there might be *a lot* of Kindles are there in the field, but maybe not that many. It's not about how strong Apple is or what, it's about how fast people are really adopting e-books.

Job 1: Crime Scene Cleaner

Talk about cleaning up after someone. In the aftermath of a bloody crime or the discovery of an illegal chemical lab, the police investigators rush in to save the day and bring the perpetrators to justice. But in the hurry to clean up crime in the city, police don't have time to clean up the walls. Be it blood and guts or hazardous chemicals, not a lot of people jump at the chance to be a crime scene cleaner.

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After the media and the police have moved on, crime scene cleaners come in to do the dirty work.

Murders and suicides can get extra bloody. Throw in fragments of bone, gore and other body pieces strewn about the place, and you've got quite a mess. This job isn't for the faint of heart -- anyone who is prone to getting queasy or emotional won't succeed in this line of work. Developing stress disorders from this work isn't uncommon. It's also pretty dangerous. Even on days they don't have to deal with anthrax-laden labs, they do have to worry about getting infectious diseases from the body fluids. This means suiting up with hazardous materials protection gear.

Depending on how bad the mess is, the cleanup could take a few hours to a few days. But you won't hear these crime scene cleaners complaining too much -- they charge by the hour. With a little experience under your belt and flexibility with your work hours, you can easily make about $75,000 a year with this job [source: Sahadi]. Although you don't need a college degree to get a crime scene cleaning job, it can help boost that salary into six figures.

There's no doubt these past 10 jobs justify the old maxim, "It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it." Maybe the next time we see a garbage collector or meet a funeral home worker, we can tip our hats to them for doing the jobs that most of us couldn't handle for one day.

Well, I am not against doing "dirty" jobs if it's really it; however it still pays to earn the money in the hard ways, so they don't really make that much. But sometimes it's where life goes, sometimes we just don't have a choice.