Category: Technology

Adobe CS3 launch

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date March 29, 2007

It was an impressive start. Adobe spent two years and over 80 million lines of code to update their Creative Suite. The new upgrades to Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and the other Adobe + Macromedia products sure made a splash.

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Interested to see where they are moving?Â The impact of mobile solutions has never been more apparent.Â Since Adobe is leading with support in their new tools, the creative community better follow.

The rollout of CS3 was off and running in NYC when they lost video to their webcast and studio audiences. bummer. After a break they were still not able to get
video working but the damage killed the buzz. And when they stated online the video would be available…still cannot find it today.

The product mix is similar to Microsoft’s Vista: Six different versions of CS3. Some shipping in April…others shipping sometime in 2007.

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Michigan’s Merit network

This week WiscNet‘s Internet2 K20 webconference featured Jim Moran from Merit Network, Inc. Merit is Michigan’s version of WiscNet. As Outreach Lead Coordinator Jim shared his experiences how Michigan schools are using high-bandwidth applications.

merit Michigan has 15 public universities but no single university system like Wisconsin. Merit began in 1966 with the University of Michigan, Michigan State and Wayne State connecting for mainframe access. Today Merit has now grown connecting to Chicago and Canada, extending their regional partnerships.

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Zune – RIP

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date January 19, 2007

Today Universal and Sony announced they are not permitting Microsoft’s Zune to share specific artist’s music across other Zunes.

This was really pushed as a product feature over the iPod. It really points to the failure of DRM…but since they pushed it – Microsoft will make this a very difficult issue to addess … minus all the money Bill has to offer.

So just what is the advantage of a Zune today? Not much….

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Internet2 – Milwaukee

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date December 8, 2006

Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting
Ship to Shore: Real-Time Science On Board UW-Milwaukee’s Research Vessel Neeskay
December 06, 2006, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Location: CC11 A

Carmen Aguilar, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Great Lakes Water Institute
Gaye-Lynn Clyde, Underwater Educational Services, Diving Unlimited
Russell Cuhel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Great Lakes Water Institute
Daniel Gross, SWING

UWM research This was a great presentation. First both Carmen and Russell spoke at the K20 Advisory Group Monday in Chicago and then were back in Milwaukee for their remote session via Internet2 video conferencing.

The only down side: waters were too cold and waves too high (7ft to 10ft) for an on-boat remote experience. Yet Carmen and Russell provided DVD playback of pre-recorded segments that made up for the weather restrictions.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has built a high speed wireless network into Lake Michigan which permits the Research Vessel Neeskay constant ship to shore communications as far as 16 miles away from the shore.

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Internet2 – Thailand

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date December 8, 2006

Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting
Bridging Asia and the U.S.: Distance Learning using Advanced Networks
December 06, 2006, 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
Location: CC10 A

Suphawadee Ratanamart, King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
Manas Sangworasil, King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
Panjai Tantatsanawong, UNINET

I was happy to meet both Panjai Tantatsanawong and Wichan Lertwipatrakul after their session. MIAD has a number of design students from Thailand studying in Milwaukee while sending MIAD Faculty to teach in Thailand since 2002.
thailand1 Now as high speed academic networks are bridging Thailand to America on Internet2 new possibilities emerge to benefit MIAD.

We have such a strong impact in design from our Thailand students that this advancement can only benefit our students and the emerging Art communities in both Milwaukee and Thailand via UniNet and Internet2.