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Kenric has a degree in Electronic Imaging at Northern Michigan University, and when he’s not losing sleep, he tirelessly slaves away creating websites. Kenric enjoys art (both standard and digital) as well as reading all sorts of things: nerd magazines like Popular Science, books, and a lot of online reading. Originally from a small farming town in the rural Lower Peninsula, he’s a solid convert to Marquette living. He enjoys garage sales, Saint Vincent’s, and all the outdoor activities the area has to offer.

Interplanetary Internets

July 31, 2009 – 10:35 am

This is a bit of old news but still interesting nonetheless. NASA is developing an interplanetary internet framework that would allow faster communication between earth and other planets, which is necessary because the current system is so slow. The agency is eyeing Mars in particular because the current goal seems to be to get a [...]

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Internet Explorer 6: The Superior Browser.

July 22, 2009 – 12:54 am

Well, according to this site anyway. SaveIE6.com was put together by the uptime monitoring service, Pingdom, as an April Fools prank. SaveIE6.com has these goals: 1. Get everyone to use Internet Explorer 6, 2. Get IE6 ported to more platforms, 3. Get the W3C standard changed to fit IE6. That’s hilarious. There’s even a petition [...]

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It’s a video! It’s a website?

July 13, 2009 – 9:37 am

It’s both! It’s a website in a video…..in a website. And it isn’t accomplished using frames.

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Web Design Comics? Geek humor at its best.

July 9, 2009 – 9:23 am

We always knew web design has its drama. The Brads web comic puts a good amount of humor into some of the things that we geeks have experienced, often without even realizing that it’s comic worthy. Well done. Also, Brad Colbow did a good job on making a clean, colorful, and easy to use website [...]

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Newest Version of Firefox Up and Running

July 1, 2009 – 1:39 pm

Mozilla has released a newer version of our favorite browser here at the U.P. Web Maestro. Firefox 3.5 boasts some new features as well as some trends that other browsers have already begun, such as private browsing when you’re using public computers. Other improvements include 200% faster JavaScript speed over Firefox 3, the ability to [...]

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