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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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    Aperture 2.0 Released

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    February 12, 2008

    Speak of the devil! Just days after I write Aperture Caption to help users of Aperture 1.5.2 to quickly caption images, Apple announces Aperture 2.0. One of the 100 new features is Metadata entry shortcut, described below: Metadata entry shortcut When adding or modifying metadata entries, press Command-Right Arrow (or…

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  • Aperture, Photography

    Aperture Caption AppleScript for Effortless Captioning

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    February 9, 2008

    Update 2008-03-28: In conjunction with Aperture 2.1, Apple has released a free AppleScript-based app for captioning called Aperture Caption Palette. Check it out. I’ve been using Aperture as my primary RAW processor for quite some time now. One thing that has been bothering me and others is the lack of…

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  • COBA, Journal, Photography

    PMA Roundup, Phoxle Photo Accessories, and Gadgets

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    February 7, 2008

    COBA is back for 2008! The February meeting for the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held on Wednesday, February 13, 2007, in Cordura Hall 100 at Stanford University from 7:30-10:00 pm. Switching to Google Groups I’m moving away from the Mailman mailing list to…

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    Sony V1U and Canon HV20 Tape Duping

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    February 6, 2008

    Anyone out there have any experience using a Canon HV20 HDV camcorder to record footage taken on a Sony V1U? I know that it will work if the V1U is set to shoot at 1080/60i, but I’m not so sure what would happen if the Sony were set to shoot…

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  • Cycling

    RIP, Sheldon Brown

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    February 5, 2008

    Cycling aficionados mourn the passing of Sheldon Brown. I never met the man, but I am very familiar with his website and his cycling tips and techniques. His online gear calculator helped me understand the mystery of my road bikes gears as I went from an 11-21 to a 12-25…

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  • Sports

    Karmic Retribution, 19-uh-oh

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    February 4, 2008

    Ah, the football gods have smiled, and the world is happy once again. 19-0? Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. All season long, Rae has been railing against the Patriots, telling me that karma will come back and bite them. In the game that they absolutely could not lose,…

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  • Journal

    Jawbone and Sharks

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    January 30, 2008

    For Eric, owner of a Jawbone and Shark lover, this video is perfect for you.

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  • Photography

    $1 Image Stabilizer

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    January 30, 2008

    Found a link to this video on how to create an image stabilizer for your camera with $1. Pretty good technique that I just might try during our upcoming trip to China in February.

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  • Apple

    iPhone Replacement

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    January 24, 2008

    My iPhone’s touchscreen has been acting up for the past month and a half. Intermittently throughout the day, the touchscreen would be unresponsive whenever I turned on the device. If this happened when a phone call came in, I would not be able to swipe the screen to answer. Finally…

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  • Apple, Journal

    24th Anniversary Mac

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    January 19, 2008

    David Clausen has upgraded an old Macintosh 512K with a Mac mini, grayscale screen, and an LS-120 floppy disk, to create the 24th Anniversary Mac! Check out the video of the Mac booting into OS X below!

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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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