Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Excellent drawing tool

I havent heard a single person not complain about visio not being easy to use. yes indeed it is cumbersome at times and takes way more time to draw something simple. for a while i lived with it until i saw one of my colleague use a tool and his speed of drawing is about 10x faster than mine. at times it is a beauty to just watch him draw diagrams. so i thought,man, i should learn that too. it will help me in long run.
the tool is XCircuit. I downloaded it and am playing with it. it does seem very fast. it is easy to draw what you want. it is more or less how you draw something on a sheet of paper. i strongly recommend people who dont have visio or are fed up with it to try to use xcircuit. it is easy to learn.
 It is not very intuitive at first, but I am sure with a bit of experience it would be a great tool.

Friday, May 7, 2010

New arrangements at home

Its been about a month since we got our home. My mom has been after me to get a webcam to show the home. So here I am ; bought this camera:



And then realized we have an old HP printer , but dont have a USB cable to connect to the PC. So I had to buy it:
Cables To Go - 13401 - 5M (16.4ft) USB 2.0 A/B Cable (White)

Might have to buy more electronics as and when needed. Want to make the home the way I want it, yay!