20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
Thanks to the heads up from my Perth Australian friend Steve Johnson for alerting me to this news item from Amit’s Digital Inspiration blog posting. I did not even know even though TechSmith has a booth almost directly across from…
I attended the Morning AU Welcome with presentations from Lynn Allen, Carl Bass Autodesk CEO, Jonathan Knowles Director of Cool Things at Autodesk, and Jeff Kowalski Autodesk CTO. There was some really cool things shown and it all culminated with…
The Autodesk MapGuide Team has posted an invitation on OSGeo website to join the beta testing of the pre-release MapGuide Studio Open Source product. If you are wondering what Autodesk MapGuide is, it is a GIS application and you can…
It is heart warming and shows that Virginia Tech in Blacksburg Virginia is recovering although it will never forget the tragedy of April 16th, 2007. They took some ground, aerial, and satellite photos of people spelling out “VT Thanks You”…
Interesting review of the release candidate preview for the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 being released to about 15,000 testers and MSDN members. Improvements are performance, compatibility, and stability. Projected release date is Q1 2008 and a public preview planned…
Windows Live Writer is a free tool and I have used it to compose blog post offline for over a year now while it has been a beta product. It provides editing, spell checking, archiving, and integrates well with most…
SaaS stands for Software as a Service or perhaps you have heard the term Web 2.0. This is basically an application that needs no installation and runs on the web through your browser. Give this early preview example a run…
The text based Content Search Alpha and geometry searching Autodesk Visual Search are two technologies in the Autodesk Labs now available to use and get customer feedback to help shape their directions. Autodesk Visual Search allows you to simply sketch…
Now the answer to who was the mystery person in the photo with me in my post on 10/13/07 "Who is the masked person with me?". Jimmy Bergmark in the comments wins as it was indeed the legendary Mr. John Walker the founder of Autodesk and now the owner of popular website http://www.fourmilab.ch/.
We have updated the Autodesk Labs hosted tool “Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD” which included fixes for reported issues and support of other products like AutoCAD Map. The credit and kudos goes to the developer Thomas Inzinga. With this updated…