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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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    NTK on Mac OS X

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    January 16, 2006

    One of the next steps in bringing Newton back from the dead is to move the development environment away from Classic and onto Mac OS X. Thanks to the efforts of Paul Guyot and Makoto Nukui, we have the beginnings of a native Mac OS X NTK. In my (limited)…

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  • Journal, Technology

    WWNC 2006

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    January 14, 2006

    The big news coming out of the 2006 Worldwide Newton Conference is that the NewtonOS runs on Linux PDA’s! You read that right, we’re one step closer to having a Newton running on non-Apple hardware. At the 2004 WWNC, Paul demoed Einstein, an emulator running on Mac OS X. He’s…

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  • Digital Vision, Journal

    Robert Maranga in Red Herring

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    January 12, 2006

    Digital Vision Fellow Robert Maranga is featured in Red Herring this month!

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  • Journal, Technology

    Networking Troubleshooting

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    January 12, 2006

    I’ve got a networking troubleshooting problem for readers to help me solve. Network transfer performance when copying from my Quicksilver PowerMac G4 to my Quad is really slow, 1MB/second. Both machines have Gigabit Ethernet, so transfer rates should be at least 10MB/second. What’s strange is that network performance from the…

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  • Journal

    Ed "Hercules" Hochuli

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    January 11, 2006

    You’ve seen him officiating NFL games for the past 12 years. Now learn how he stays fit!

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  • COBA, Photography

    No January 2006 COBA Meeting

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    January 10, 2006

    This is a reminder that there will be no January 2006 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group. The next meeting will be held on February 8, 2006. We will be discussing new RAW processing applications such as Adobe Lightroom and Apple’s Aperture. Other topics…

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  • Aperture, Journal, Photography

    Adobe Lightroom

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    January 8, 2006

    Adobe fired back at Apple with a public beta release of Lightroom. The beta is fully functional until June, 2006! There’s quite a bit missing from this iteration, especially in the realm of metadata handling, but Adobe plans to release several more versions before the final release. After downloading, do…

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  • Digital Vision, Journal

    Digital Vision Program 2006-2007 Applications

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    January 6, 2006

    The Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for the 2006-2007 school year. If you know someone who has a great idea on how to use information communication technologies (ICT) in developing nations, let them know about this program!

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  • Technology

    Behind the Magic Curtain

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    January 6, 2006

    Nice article from a former Apple employee about what goes into organizing and running a successful Apple keynote address.

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  • Journal

    Beijing Wushu Team Portraits

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    December 31, 2005

    In between the Cupertino shows, the Beijing Wushu Team gathered at San Francisco’s Baker Beach to have group and individual portraits. With the Golden Gate Bridge in the background, the photos turned out great! What wasn’t so great were all the people in the background! Thanks to Photoshop, you’ll never…

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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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