Skip to content

tow.com

  • Home
  • Aboutu0026gt; bio I grew up in San Diego, and I lived there from the day I was born to the day I moved up to the Bay Area for college. SD’s a wonderful place to visit and live, with great beaches, beautiful weather, and a relaxing laid-back style to it. If your only impression of Southern California is Los Angeles, you owe it to yourself to visit San Diego! I graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems. My focus was in human-computer interaction. Name: Adam Tow Year of Birth: 1975 Hometown: San Diego, CA Current Residence: SF Bay Area Education: See Curriculum Vitae Myers-Briggs Type: INFP Riso-Hudson Type: 7 – Enthusiast I was most recently a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, where I am creating technology that enables the developing world to access Internet information and applications. Currently, I’m working on numerous projects in digital media, photography, videography, and online journaling. Previously, I led the MyPalm client team for the i705 handheld at Palm, Inc.. Prior to Palm, I founded and ran Foundation Systems, a software development and consulting firm specializing in mobile computing. I wrote and sold a number of acclaimed software packages for…
  • SwitchEffect
  • C1B
  • MixEffect
  • Action Phrase
  • MsgFiler
  • Product Updates
  • Autumn Gem
  • Journal

    Greek Play in Berkeley

    Published by

    Adam Tow

    on

    July 28, 2001

    Rae invited me to this free Greek play happening in Berkeley last week. Since my Saturday schedule was open, I decided to go. I haven’t been to a play like this in a long time, if ever. The only memories I have of watching anything remotely similar were when I…

    Continue reading →: Greek Play in Berkeley
  • Journal

    Running Errands

    Published by

    Adam Tow

    on

    July 28, 2001

    I woke up early as is customary on the weekends even though I hadn’t slept that much over the past few days. On Thursday, I was in hung hanging out with a friend. We saw Startup.com, the real-life documentary of govWorks.com. Overall, I thought that the film was pretty good,…

    Continue reading →: Running Errands
  • Journal, Technology

    Palo Alto Evening at SNUG

    Published by

    Adam Tow

    on

    July 24, 2001

    On the fourth Tuesday of every month, there is a small contigent of Newton users that convenes at the Printer’s Inc. Cafe in Palo Alto. We’ve been doing this thing since the Newton came out, the first meeting being in January, 1994. I remember the first time I went to…

    Continue reading →: Palo Alto Evening at SNUG
  • Journal

    Hanging with Rae

    Published by

    Adam Tow

    on

    July 22, 2001

    I was IM’ing with Amabelle this morning as I was working on my Vienna Teng recap from Saturday night. She asked me what I was planning on doing today other than the web site. I replied, “To be honest, nothing. I have been on a whirlwind of activities for the…

    Continue reading →: Hanging with Rae
  • Journal, Vienna Teng

    Vienna Teng at Eric's

    Published by

    Adam Tow

    on

    July 22, 2001

    I spent Saturday morning with Eric, Rita, Amabelle, Dardy, and Bill over at Koi Palace, where we gorged on dim sum and took pictures like a pack of tourists. Afterwards, I went to fix my glasses and check out DV equipment in Palo Alto before returning home. I left my…

    Continue reading →: Vienna Teng at Eric's
  • Journal

    Saturday Morning Dim Sum

    Published by

    Adam Tow

    on

    July 21, 2001

    I went to sleep around 2:00 am on Saturday morning, after getting back late from Dardy’s housewarming party in Palo Alto. We arranged to call each other at 9:00 am to see if we’d all like to go have dim sum at Koi Palace in Daly City. As usual, I…

    Continue reading →: Saturday Morning Dim Sum
  • Journal

    Friday Events and Dardy and Jay's Housewarming

    Published by

    Adam Tow

    on

    July 20, 2001

    Thursday night started an eventful set of get togethers and parties that’ll end with Saturday’s Vienna Teng concert at Eric’s place in San Francisco. On Friday night, Dardy Chang held a housewarming party at Leghorn, his new residence in Palo Alto. Dardy, for those readers who don’t know, assigns a…

    Continue reading →: Friday Events and Dardy and Jay's Housewarming
  • High School, Journal

    Jared in San Francisco

    Published by

    Adam Tow

    on

    July 19, 2001

    On Thursday, July 19, 2001, I drove up to the City of San Francisco to meet up with one of my best friends from high school, the exalted Jared and his loyal subjects, David Simon and Howard Ouyang. We convened at Jared’s hotel, the San Francisco Hyatt Regency, located at…

    Continue reading →: Jared in San Francisco
  • Journal

    Late Nite Talks

    Published by

    Adam Tow

    on

    July 11, 2001

    When I was a freshman at Stanford, I lived in Donner, an all-frosh dorm in Stern Hall. Donner hadn’t been renovated as part of the Stanford’s Capital Improvement Plan (CIP), so it was dark and a little long in the tooth when compared to other dorms on campus like Kimball…

    Continue reading →: Late Nite Talks
  • Journal, tow.com

    Musings on tow.com

    Published by

    Adam Tow

    on

    July 9, 2001

    July 9, 2001 marks the one-year anniversary of relaunching of tow.com as a personal web site. This musing reflects on the days before tow.com, its five year history as my company’s web site, my decision to transform it into my personal site, and its future. I remember first seeing the…

    Continue reading →: Musings on tow.com
Previous Page Next Page

Adam, here

Welcome to tow.com, my home on the internet since 1995. I’m an indie software artist and creator of apps such as Action Phrase, MixEffect, MsgFiler, RouteEffect, Wipe My Screen, and more. I’m also the producer and co-director of Autumn Gem. Enjoy your visit here!

Let’s connect

  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • Mastodon
  • Facebook

Recent posts

  • Introducing SwitchEffect: A Video Production Studio for iPhone and iPad

    Introducing SwitchEffect: A Video Production Studio for iPhone and iPad

  • Searching for the Best Electric Travel Toothbrush

    Searching for the Best Electric Travel Toothbrush

  • SwitchEffect Livestream with Aaron Parecki and App Store Submission

    SwitchEffect Livestream with Aaron Parecki and App Store Submission

  • Who Am I in Chain Reaction, the Next Jack Reacher Novel? Will I Survive?

    Who Am I in Chain Reaction, the Next Jack Reacher Novel? Will I Survive?

  • SwitchEffect First Look with Keith Bennett

    SwitchEffect First Look with Keith Bennett

  • Gaussian Splats and the Great Santa Clara Donut War

    Gaussian Splats and the Great Santa Clara Donut War

tow.com

  • Home
  • Aboutu0026gt; bio I grew up in San Diego, and I lived there from the day I was born to the day I moved up to the Bay Area for college. SD’s a wonderful place to visit and live, with great beaches, beautiful weather, and a relaxing laid-back style to it. If your only impression of Southern California is Los Angeles, you owe it to yourself to visit San Diego! I graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems. My focus was in human-computer interaction. Name: Adam Tow Year of Birth: 1975 Hometown: San Diego, CA Current Residence: SF Bay Area Education: See Curriculum Vitae Myers-Briggs Type: INFP Riso-Hudson Type: 7 – Enthusiast I was most recently a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, where I am creating technology that enables the developing world to access Internet information and applications. Currently, I’m working on numerous projects in digital media, photography, videography, and online journaling. Previously, I led the MyPalm client team for the i705 handheld at Palm, Inc.. Prior to Palm, I founded and ran Foundation Systems, a software development and consulting firm specializing in mobile computing. I wrote and sold a number of acclaimed software packages for…
  • SwitchEffect
  • C1B
  • MixEffect
  • Action Phrase
  • MsgFiler
  • Product Updates
  • Autumn Gem

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    tow.com
    Join 234 other subscribers

    Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

  • tow.com
    View site in Reader
    Manage subscriptionsSign upLog in
    Report this content
    Collapse this bar

Notifications