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Your feed list may be absolutely filled, boiling over with a slew of 3D CAD related content, but if you subscribe to any in the new year, you’ll want to check out these ten. They made the amount of online media a little more lean, and a lot tastier thanks to their knowledge, thought and experience.

Check them out and all the best to them in the new year ahead. Now, here are…

It happened late one night. I was getting a special box of tree bark out for the kids. That’s when I saw them… teaching latin, throwing onions, and looking at these links. Microbotic – The freakishly amazing work of Christopher Conte. Robotic Spiders, Skulls and more. LogoInstant.com – Absolutely free logo design. Included Illustrator and…

solidsmack-happy-new-yearSo, what were the best and brightest post of 2008 on SolidSmack.com? I was sifting through all of them and thought the quickly-trained monkeys that wrote some of them did a pretty good job. I kid. It was actually just one monkey, with a day job and an extra finger… I kid again.

Here’s some of the best and most memorable posts that spilled over the edge of the SolidSmack editorial desk, onto the webernet and into your eyeholes. Of cours, your comments, as always, make them even better.

solidworks-s-key-shortcutThe ‘S’ key. A single key on that clicky ol’ keyboard that can give you the POWER to HARNESS… tiny little icons… on a customizable pop-up toolbar. Power? Yes, faster access to commands and less time between them.

Everyone knows it’s easier to get away from going through the menus by setting up keyboard shortcuts. We’ll assume you’ll use some, but what we’re going to focus on is keeping your cursor on the work area and keyboard shortcuts to a minimum.

It’s all done through the ‘Shortcut Bar’. It may hurt the habits a bit, but it’s oh so much nicer when you use these tips.

disqus-facebook-solidsmackIf you comment here on the post regularly, you’re extremely privileged to be using the most powerful commenting system of all time, Disqus. Yes, it’s quite a lot to take in, but it’s gone one better.

If you don’t like logging into a Disqus profile, you can now just sign in using your Facebook account. The Disqus commenting now supports Facebook Connect which allows you to use you Facebook ID on many sites and publish items, like comments, to your Facebook Feed.