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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 Home!

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    March 5, 2006

    Rae and I are about to become homeowners! I’ve been meaning to write this post for over a month now, but I wanted to wait until everything was signed, sealed, delivered, and closed. We began our house hunting search in earnest at the end of December. Throughout January, Rae and…

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    Spore

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    March 4, 2006

    Games have certainly come a long way since Adventure on the Atari 2600! Saw this video via Eric. Like he mentioned, I said “Wow” several times while watching it. I liked the mix of game themes and melodies throughout the demo. The battle music early on harkened back to TOS!

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    March 2006 COBA Meeting

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    February 28, 2006

    The March 2006 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held on Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from 7:30-10:30 pm. PMA Roundup Uwe Steinmueller will give us a quick update on everything that was announced and displayed…

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    Microsoft Origami

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    February 27, 2006

    Lots of buzz in the press about the products that Microsoft and Apple are going to release tomorrow, February 28th. People suspect Origami is a new device that’s bigger than a handheld computer yet smaller than a laptop. Leaked video of the device suggests that it can play movies, show…

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    Aperture 1.1 Details

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    February 26, 2006

    Apple is showing off Aperture 1.1 at PMA this week. MacWorld has a good article detailing some of the new features. Better RAW decoding, sharpening, and noise reduction algorithms are the ones that I’m most interested in. I’ve been using Aperture for several projects the past couple of months. In…

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    Sierra Road

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    February 24, 2006

    Felix has a great story about Sierra Road, the 3.8 mile, 1800 feet climb that pro cyclists raced up earlier this week during Stage 2 of the Tour of California. Having discovered the painful pleasures that is Redwood Gulch Road, I shudder at the thought of a climb twice and…

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    Canon Announcements

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    February 21, 2006

    Canon announced some new products today in advance of the PMA conference. The 30D, not to be confused with their original consumer digital SLR, the D30, is a refinement of the EOS 20D. The 85mm f/1.2L Mark II lens updates the original 85mm f/1.2 lens with faster AF. Finally for…

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    Mashup Camp Day 2

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    February 21, 2006

    Day two of Mashup Camp is underway. I have brought the Sharpcast Photos demo in case anyone wants to see it in action. At one point in the morning, there were three Adams and one Alex in the entire auditorium. Adam Suh, Adam Green, and Adam Tow joined together to…

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    Mashup Camp

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    February 20, 2006

    I’m blogging from Mashup Camp at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I’ve created a Flickr stream of photos that I’m taking at the event. You can see other photos from the event here on Flickr. There are so many good sessions, but they all happening at the same…

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    Showing the teaser in WordPress sub-pages

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    February 15, 2006

    Been working on a WordPress problem that’s been vexing me for the past few weeks. Since I use WP to run the entire websites, I typically place the blog section as a separate sub-page under the website root. My site structure might look like this: http://www.example.com = the website’s home…

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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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