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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 Party

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    January 3, 2007

    We hosted a low-key New Year’s Party at our house on Monday night. We ushered in 2007 with lots of food, some spirits, and good conversation. It was good just to relax with friends after our long 9-hour drive back up from San Diego, where Rae and I spent the…

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  • Aperture, Development, Journal, Photography, Software

    Annoture 1.0.2 Released

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    January 1, 2007

    Happy New Year everyone! Annoture 1.0.2 has been released. This is a recommended update for all Annoture users. It has numerous bug fixes in the file comparison routines over the previous version of Annoture. In addition, the application will now notify users when a newer update is available. Users also…

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    In San Diego

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    December 26, 2006

    Happy Holidays! Rae and I drove down to San Diego yesterday. The traffic down the I-5 was pretty light all the way. We’ll be relaxing here for a few days before heading back up to the Bay Area for New Year’s.

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    Beating "The Man" by Being the Man

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    December 21, 2006

    Rae and I are listening right now to Pacific Time on KQED (88.5 FM). I was excited to hear my voice used in the intro as the hook (in bold below)! They have posted a RealMedia stream and an MP3 of the show. Here’s the text of my commentary tonight’s…

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    Pacific Time

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    December 20, 2006

    I drove up to San Francisco this morning to record a short segment for KQED’s Pacific Time (88.5 FM). Part of Thursday’s show at 6:30 pm will talk about Yul Kwon’s victory on Survivor. I was contacted by the producers on Monday after they had read my post on Yul.…

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  • COBA, Journal, Photography

    Refocusing After the Fact

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    December 18, 2006

    Dr. Ren Ng of Refocus Imaging gave a tremendous talk at last week’s COBA meeting, the final one for 2006. I’ve been following his research for quite some time, but until last night, I hadn’t seen a first-hand demonstration of his technology. Suffice it to say, I left extremely impressed.…

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  • Journal

    Yul Wins Survivor!

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    December 18, 2006

    Congratulations go out to the three finalists, Yul Kwon, Becky Lee, and Ozzy Lusth, for surviving thirty-nine days on Cook Islands in the thirteenth installment of Survivor! Prior to this season, I had only watched one episode of Survivor. This year was different, since I knew Yul from Stanford. He…

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  • Development, Journal, Photography

    WP-SmugMug

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    December 17, 2006

    I’m putting the finishing touches on WP-SmugMug, a plugin for WordPress that integrates — you guessed it — SmugMug RSS feeds into your WordPress Posts and Pages. Activate the plugin, specify the RSS feed url for your SmugMug album, and your images appear as thumbnails at the bottom of your…

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  • Journal

    Eric's Birthday Party

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    December 14, 2006

    Hours before Eric got on a plane heading for Japan, his friends took him out to dinner at the Gordon Biersch in Palo Alto. Present along with the birthday boy were Mandy, Elliot, Bill, Warren, Elaine, Vienna, Geoff, Livia, Rae and me. For most of my friends, 2007 will be…

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  • Journal, Performance, Photography

    Trolley Dances

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    December 13, 2006

    Several months ago, I shot Facing East Dance & Music during the Third Annual Trolley Dances, a “freewheeling San Francisco festival of modern dance!” Four dance companies, Kunst-Stoff, Facing East Dance and Music, Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton, and Epiphany Productions performed at four different locations along the Embarcadero on…

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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 MixEffect, MsgFiler, AlbumFiler, 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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