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  • 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…
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    New Year's Lunch

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    January 5, 2010

    A few days late in getting these photos up. I hope 2010 will bring a few more entries to this blog than 2009! On New Year’s Day, Susan, Bryan, Kai, Petrice, Eric, Flora and their two kids met up in Milpitas for lunch. We originally wanted to go to Maru-Ichi…

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    Vienna Teng at The Independent

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    December 22, 2009

    Last night, Rae and I went to Vienna Teng and Alex Wong’s performance at The Independent in San Francisco. It’s been quite some time since we last saw Vienna perform; once again, she did not disappoint. I especially enjoyed the additional musical layers in her live song renditions; she’s certainly…

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    Star Trek: The Exhibition at the San Jose Tech Museum

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    November 12, 2009

    Yesterday evening, Felix, Rae and I went to the San Jose Tech Museum to see the Star Trek: The Exhibition exhibit. We went as part of a private event, which meant the usual prohibition against photography and videography was lifted. I hope that also means that I can post these…

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    Autumn Gem Tour Packing Recap

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    November 3, 2009

    Over on our Autumn Gem blog, I posted a recap and analysis of our packing strategy for our 25-day, 17-stop tour of the documentary. We’ve gotten packing light down to a near science, but there’s always room for improvement. Ideally, we’d like to go from three pieces of luggage to…

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    MsgFiler 2.0.6

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    October 24, 2009

    MsgFiler has been updated to version 2.0.6. The only change is to add support for Apple Mail in Mac OS X 10.6.2.

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    WP-SmugMug 2.0.6

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    October 23, 2009

    I noticed today that all of my posts integrated with my SmugMug galleries using WP-SmugMug were broken. SmugMug has been changing the permalink structure for albums and images lately. A few weeks ago, albums gained the ability to have pretty permalinks. Now, it looks like those changes have made it…

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    Autumn Gem at Santa Clara University

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    September 30, 2009

    The crowd keeps getting bigger. We had nearly 120 people fill up Room 206 in the Daly Science Center at Santa Clara University for our screening of Autumn Gem. I’ve posted a recap with photos on the official Autumn Gem web site here. Now, we pack for the next few…

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    Autumn Gem at UCSF

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    September 25, 2009

    Great screening this evening at UCSF. We had over 80 people show up to watch Autumn Gem. I’ve posted photos up on SmugMug and have an extended recap on the Autumn Gem web site. Between updating SmugMug, autumn-gem.com, Twitter, and Facebook, I don’t have much time to update this site!

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  • Autumn Gem

    Autumn Gem Free Screening at UCSF this Friday!

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    September 20, 2009

    Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival with our appropriately titled film! BioBridge at UCSF will be hosting a free screening and reception with delicious snacks. Supported by the UCSF Cultural Enrichment Fund. Friday, September 25 at 6:00pm Cole Hall Auditorium UCSF Medical Sciences Building 513 Parnassus Avenue San Francisco, CA If…

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  • Journal, Software

    MsgFiler Update to Restore Compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6.1

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    September 10, 2009

    The latest Mac OS X 10.6.1 update broke compatibility with MsgFiler. I’ve release 2.0.5 of MsgFiler to address this issue. Download it from the MsgFiler web page.

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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!

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  • 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…
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