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Altium’s private license server

Published on April 15, 2011 By Dan

I have never been a huge fan of the Macrovision FlexLM security software that CAD software companies such as Mentor Graphics and Cadence use for their tools. Service bureaus need to manage multiple licenses in several different CAD tools so dealing with dongles can prove very challenging. This is why I was very pleased to [...]

Windows 7 Gadgets: Unit Converter

Published on April 7, 2011 By Fab

Since the Vista operating system Microsoft has been trying to push their sidebar and Windows gadgets. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t found much use to any of them. Lately I decided to give it another go and see if there was anything interesting out there. Well I came across a gadget called [...]

So you want to blog…

Published on April 5, 2011 By Fab

There are many reasons a business might chose to blog. For Vision Circuits the main motivation is to extend information to our customers, suppliers and other PCB Designers around the world. A blog is a great “living” platform that allows people to share, communicate, poll and educate others around them and on the topic of [...]