Archive for January, 2012

Autodesk has announced the dates for the 2012 certification days. These are the dates that you can get your certifications for $25 each. This is a great price to renew or get a new Autodesk certification.

The 2012 certification days are:
February 10th
April 13th
June 15th
August 10th
October 12th

You can Click Here  or goto: http://atc.gilmoreglobal.com/ to register for these special days.

All certified testing centers will be part of these $25 days. So you can take the test at your local certification center.

If you are in one of the following areas and would like to take your certifications at the U.S. CAD office you can use the site codes below.

• Costa Mesa – AM3130
• Hawaii – AM3707
• Las Vegas – AM101204
• Los Angeles – AM3030
• San Diego – AM3483

WHY GET CERTIFIED?

Autodesk certifications are a reliable validation of your skills and knowledge, and can lead to accelerated professional development, improved productivity, and enhanced credibility for you and your employer.

Key Benefits

• Gain an industry recognized credential that proves your skill level
• Set yourself apart and receive industry recognition for your proven expertise
• Strengthen your existing and develop new skills through certification preparation
• List your name in the Autodesk Certified Professionals database
• Enhance the credibility for you and your employer

When Apple introduced iCloud, they decided to kill off MobileMe.  I love what iCloud is doing syncing my information on my iDevices, but it is lacking what MobileMe did with file storage.  Don’t get me wrong, iCloud is still the king of information sync for me as I have an empty glass of Apple Flavor Aid.  When it comes to document storage iCloud falls short.  Granted I am late to the Dropbox show and you may already know the goodness that is Dropbox. If you don’t know about Dropbox’s tasty goodness then by all means read on.

Dropbox is a cross platform cloud based storage service. Dropbox gives you 2 GB of free storage to store anything your heart desires. Need more space? You can get 50GB of space starting at $99.99 a year, the same price that MobileMe was. Dropbox works on my iPad, iPhone, Mac OS X, and within Windows. It automatically sync from Dropbox’s cloud to my computers.

What sets Dropbox apart from MobileMe is that my documents are synced, not just accessible from the cloud.  This gives me the following advantages:

• Faster access to my documents. Because my documents are synchronized to my computer they are on my computer and in my Dropbox.
• Faster directory browsing. This may seem like a small thing but when you are hunting for something in your documents folder you want it to be fast.
• Local backup.  When Dropbox synchronizes your file it places a real copy on your local hard drive, this allow time machine to backup my documents on my backup drive.  Having extra backups is a wonderful thing.
• Offline access. Again Dropbox places a real synchronized copy on your local hard drive. So I can access my documents where I don’t have access to the Internet.
• It just works and I know where my files are.

With Private BIM Clouds, or anything remote based computing you need to think about using the right tools for the job.  Private BIM Clouds are wonderful things, without Private BIM Clouds running a BIM project remotely is very complicated and difficult. Dropbox provides an easy way to transfer files from my laptop to my Private BIM Cloud.  Even though there is a way to connect to my local drive from my Private BIM Cloud, I am finding DropBox easier and one less thing to configure.

Overall I am quite happy with DropBox and would recommend it for my readers that chew gum.

If you would like to give Dropbox a try please use my referral link, this will give me some more space and make my day.  Here is the link http://db.tt/HEGegMsj