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Party Chief

Tip: How To Find Your Stolen Data Collector or Laptop

This is a nifty tip for being able to find your laptop or data collector if it is ever stolen. Install Dropbox!

You can even install it on many web enabled data collectors!

Ok, this is probably one of the cooler features of Dropbox, but if you shou

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

A serverless, unblockable messaging system for Android

Take a look at this guys..Imagine a day, when Facebook, Twitter, Land Surveyors United or even internet and cellular communication is blocked in your country due to some reason. We have seen this happen. How do then people communicate and spread thei

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

4 Free CAD Programs You Need to See

Working with CAD doesn't have to break the bank. Here are at least 4 Free alternatives to AutoCAD for working with CAD objects and drawings.

Check out QCAD

QCAD is THE application you should use if you’re looking to create technical drawings be it f

Started by Jaybird

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Survey Legend

4 More IFTTT Recipes for the Surveying Genius On the Go

Are you ready to save some time and automate a few normal surveyor tasks? A few months back, I showed you 3 Genius ways to Automate your Surveying tasks with IFTTT and today I am going to show you a few moreways to save time.

Today's recipes deal pr

Started by ⚡Survenator⌁

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Survey Legend

3 Genius Ways To Digitally Automate Surveyor Tasks with IFTTT

If you haven't heard (or tried) IFTTT yet, you don't know what you are missing. IFTTT stands for If This Then That and it is a free service online which allows you to automate many of the mundane tasks involved with your digital and social media lif

Started by ⚡Survenator⌁

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Party Chief

DIY Convert Phone a Projector for Less Than $5.00

Be A Hit at the Next Chapter Meeting with This Trick!

Turn Your Phone into a Projector for Less than 5 Dollars

Basically, you start by cutting a hole out of one side of the shoebox to match your magnifying glass and taping the glass on the box. Th

Started by Jaybird

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Survey Legend

How to Email Attachments Up to 10GB

Yes, you read that right, surveyors! Up to 10 GB. This means you can now email over those drawings, platts, large attachments using Google Drive and Gmail.

Here is how you email attachments up to 10 gigabytes in Size

Then just follow the promp

Started by ⚡Survenator⌁

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Party Chief

Google Keep Keeps Your Notes On Google

Save What's On Your Mind, Anywhere

Land surveyors over time have devised some pretty innovative methods for storing and keeping notes, primarily because the job requires us to note practically everything. There is a new service from Google which you

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

Keep Notes On Google Maps With Notes.is

Field Notes Go Digital

Here is a new app for your online tools arsenal for keeping notes on the google maps interface. When i ran across this tool, i immediately could see how it could be valuable to land surveyors for taking notes related to proper

Started by Jaybird

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Land Surveyor

Remove Noise From Your Images With This App

Sometimes you can capture a great photo using your phone or a low-tech camera and the image retains so much noise that it ruins the moment. And when sharing your photos from the field here on Land Surveyors United, you probably want to make sure you

Started by SurveyEarthinaDay

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Land Surveyor

How to Convert Files Into Over 50 Formats

If you are like me, you are constant need of a way to convert documents and files from one file format into another. That is why this service I am about to introduce is so valuable. Introducing CometDocs!

Cometdocs is a one of its kinds free online

Started by SurveyEarthinaDay

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Party Chief

How to Sync a Google Form with a Fusion Table

With a simple script, you can set up a Google Form that your users can use to input data to a Fusion Table. The script takes advantage of Google's AppsScript tool to transfer new form input into your table.

There are just a few steps to get the scrip

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

Android Apps For Land Surveyors Part 2

Your Android smart phone can come in handy in hundreds of ways for you while you are out surveying in the field. The hardest part about getting your phone the way you like it or need it to perform is simply finding the best apps to do the job. Here

Started by Jaybird

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Survey Legend

How to Use Google+ Hangouts for Beginners

How to Start a Google+ Hangout

If you haven't at least played around with Google Hangouts inside Google+ then you simply do not know what you are missing. Its very similar to Skype except for you do not have to pay for it, you can have 30 or so peop

Started by ⚡Survenator⌁

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Party Chief

Video Editing Toolbox for Land Surveyors

I've had a lot of land surveyors lately who have ask me about the best tools to use for editing videos before uploading them to the network. Uploading surveying videos from the field does not have to be a daunting task, as the most important and chal

Started by Jaybird

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GEO Ambassador

Faxtool Lets You Split and Merge TIFF and PDF

Faxtool Lets You Split and Merge TIFF and PDF on the Fly!

FaxTool is a portable freeware utility for splitting and joining (merging) TIFF and PDF files. Simply drag your files onto the interface to split or join.

It is a single EXE, and requires no ins

Started by Skip Farrow

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Land Surveyor

How to Get Comprehensive Automated Free VoIP with Google Voice

Ok my fellow surveyors, do you want to learn how to make free VoiP calls over wifi connection? When times are tough, a little free advice never hurts. I am going to present this guide and continue to update it as I learn the limits and possibilities

Started by SurveyEarthinaDay

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Survey Legend

How to Turn Your Cellphone into a Webcam

Many of us are keeping in touch with the world using a laptop but not all laptops come with a built-in webcam. And although you can find a cheap webcam on our Quick Shop (under webcams), you most likely already have a mobile phone in your toolbox. A

Started by ⚡Survenator⌁ in Cool Tools and Images and Video

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Party Chief

Map Non-Native Plants With Your Phone

Professional Land Surveyors run into all sorts of exotic plant life while at work. I say exotic because many of the plants that we see day-to-day have arrived to the location which they presently can be found due to human action, animal transportati

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

How to Trace, Track and Recover Your Android Phone

When working in the woods or the city, which many surveyors do, it is easy to lose your cellphone. It is also quite easy to have your cellphone stolen from you when doing just about anything. Below I will show you how to trace that lost android pho

Started by Jaybird

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Surveyors Online Toolbox

Check out QCAD

Be A Hit at the Next Chapter Meeting with This Trick!

Turn Your Phone into a Projector for Less than 5 Dollars

Here is how you email attachments up to 10 gigabytes in Size

Save What's On Your Mind, Anywhere

How to Start a Google+ Hangout

Faxtool Lets You Split and Merge TIFF and PDF on the Fly!

Note: this page is for Futurist members who support the community and help us sustain financially.Please subscribe to unlock this page an almost 100 surveyor tools.

Note: this page is for Futurist members who support the community and help us sustain financially.Please subscribe to unlock this page an almost 100 surveyor tools.

Note: this page is for Futurist members who support the community and help us sustain financially.Please subscribe to unlock this page an almost 100 surveyor tools.