Category Web/Tech

Blogging and RSS — The “What’s It?” and “How To” of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators

Here is a great article on blogging and what it is and how it can be used for education. Blogging and RSS — The “What’s It?” and “How To” of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators Click Here Cheers, -Shaan

Wine Country Geek Lunch in the North Bay Saturday January 3rd

Robert Scoble (a Microsoft evangelist and serious hardcore blogger) is holding an informal lunch here in the North Bay wine country tomorrow. I plan on going as it is always great to meet new people and discuss geeky technology subjects.…

First Post of 2004 – Happy New Years Everyone!

Well the West Coast has now rang in the new year. I hope everyone has a safe new years day and a better year than the last. Also please note it will take me the next 9 months to stop…

Live Chat Support & Beta Testing

I just added throughout the entire Autodesk Beta website the ability to chat with a beta team member when Traci or I are online. This was done to allow for easy answers quick and fast for visitors interested in beta…

New Exciting DWF Usage for Facilities

I have seen some very clever usage of DWF files on a corporate network. You can show employee locations, printers and in many cases even install and map to the printers of an office as shown in Jimmy Bergmark’s intranet…

Autodesk Discussion Groups are Back Up and with a New Look!

I mentioned last week (here) the planned outage of the public discussion groups for updates. Well the discussion groups are once again live and thriving with activity. I am sure many thousands of lurkers to the groups were going through…

Great Source of AutoCAD Tutorials

Just browsing through my web browser favorite links on a Sunday and I found this gem of a resource. http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/default.asp?af=3&re=1&se=AutoCAD There are many other application tutorials on this site as well. Some of the AutoCAD tutorials listed in the site…

New Security and Virus Protection Effort in the Upcoming Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2

The next Service Pack for Microsoft Windows will be released in the near future. The aim of this Service Pack is to increase the security of the Operating System so that users without a firewall or anti virus are less…

Be Safe Out there..

After a recent event, it came to my attention that some computer users still do not understand the simple concept of wireless or virus security. When you attend an event, hotel, coffee shop, airport, or your home and connect your…

Changes Coming to the Autodesk Public Discussion Groups

The best Autodesk product resource, the public discussion groups are getting a major makeover this weekend. There will be a weekend outage while this transition takes place. I know many active posters and lurkers will go through withdrawls while the…