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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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  • Cycling, Journal

    Low-Key Hillclimbs #2: Old La Honda

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    October 26, 2006

    With the slew of work this week, I haven’t had time to put down my thoughts on the second Low-Key Hillclimb ride up Old La Honda until now. I’ve been riding up this benchmark climb to Skyline Road off and on ever since I got my road bike in 1997.…

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  • Development, Journal

    Localization Help Needed

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    October 25, 2006

    In the course of the next week, I expect to have three software applications for Mac OS X available: Annoture, Timeature, and a yet-to-be released enhancement for Apple Mail. I’ve gotten help localizing my apps into French and German. What other languages are in typical OS X apps? Japanese is…

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  • Aperture, Development, Journal, Photography

    Annoture 1.0.1 and Timeature 1.0.2

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    October 25, 2006

    I need to fire myself and hire a real QA team. A couple of international users discovered a problem related to number formats and localization in Timeature and Annoture. Since both apps share some of the same codebase, I had to release a point update — 1.0.2 and 1.0.1 respectively…

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  • Aperture, Development, Journal, Photography

    Annoture 1.0 Released!

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    October 24, 2006

    I’m happy to announce that Annoture 1.0 has been released! It’s taken me a little longer than I expected to get it out, but I think it will be worth the wait. Users of iView MediaPro and Aperture who need a metadata bridging solution can look no longer. Annoture makes…

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  • Aperture, Development, Journal, Photography

    Timeature 1.0.1 Updated

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    October 24, 2006

    I updated Release Candidate 1 of Timeature to full release status. One change was made in the application to overcome a bug discovered in a SQL statement call by Timeature.

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  • Digital Vision, Journal

    DVF Kickoff Photos

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    October 23, 2006

    A little late in coming. Here are photos from the Digital Vision Program’s Kickoff event earlier this month. From Karen’s description of the night: The DV Open House was a hit – more than 80 members of our Silicon Valley network came out to formally welcome the 20 new DV…

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  • Journal

    Server Down

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    October 22, 2006

    Had a router blow a fan at the CoLo last night. Sorry for the interruption in service. Things should be back up and running now.

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  • Aperture, Development, Journal, Photography

    Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!

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    October 18, 2006

    Bugs are the bane of any software developer’s life. Many of us would much rather focus on adding new functionality than fixing things that are broken. It’s sad truth in engineering that a vast majority of time is often spent isolating and squashing bugs. I’ve come across two bugs which…

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  • Aperture, Development, Journal, Photography

    Timeature 1.0.1 RC 1 Released!

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    October 18, 2006

    Hot on the heels of the Timeature 1.0 release comes 1.0.1 Release Candidate 1. This version adds the following improvements to the application: Image Dates persist after Aperture Library Rebuild Added EXIF date adjustment Date Picker valid range is now beween 1902 and 2037 Timeature switches to the Library during…

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  • Aperture, Development, Journal, Photography

    Timeature 1.0 Released!

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    October 16, 2006

    I’m pleased to announce the availability of Timeature 1.0! With Timeature, you can easily adjust the Image Date field of images imported in Aperture! The correct Image Date ensures that your photos are sorted properly within Aperture. This field is sadly not currently user-editable in Aperture 1.5, hence the need…

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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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