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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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    Adobe Lightroom Beta 2

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    February 14, 2006

    Adobe released Beta 2 of Lightroom today. Some of the new and improved features include: Now available as a Universal Binary for compatibility with Intel-based Apple hardware Crop and Straighten tools included in the Develop module Ability to add music to slideshows White balance support for the Nikon D2X, D2Hs…

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  • Journal, Technology

    Sharpcast

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    February 7, 2006

    The cat is out of the bag. I’ve been helping out the folks at Sharpcast for the past year, and at the beginning of this year, I made my relationship with them formal! My most recent project with them has been revising and launching the corporate website. Members of the…

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    MacGyver MasterCard Commercial

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    February 5, 2006

    The commercials during the SuperBowl were pretty bad this year, except for one. I loved the MacGyver MasterCard one! It’s a great time to be a MacGyver fan. You can purchase the first four seasons of the series, and the other ones are not far behind. Paramount should wake up…

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    Treo 700w battery life

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    February 5, 2006

    I recently switched to using a Palm Treo 700w phone after nearly three years with a Sony Ericsson t68i. I’ve found the battery life on the Treo to be horrible compared to the t68i. Anybody have good tips on extending the battery life on Treos? Turning off Bluetooth helped a…

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  • COBA, Photography

    COBA February Meeting: Raw Processing Software

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    January 31, 2006

    Details for the next COBA meeting have been posted. RAW Processing Software demoed, including: Apple Aperture Adobe Lightroom Light Crafts Lightzone Spread the word about the first meeting of 2006! See you at the SLAC Orange Room on February 8!

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  • Journal, Technology

    WWNC 2006 Day #2

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    January 21, 2006

    The highlight of Day 2 of the 2006 Worldwide Newton Conference was hearing the stories Walter Smith and James Joaquin. Walter was the father of NewtonScript, and James was one of the early product marketing managers for the Newton. If you’re a fan of the book Defying Gravity, you can…

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  • Journal, Technology

    Einstein on Nokia 770

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    January 18, 2006

    Einstein is now running on a Nokia 770 phone!

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  • Development

    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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    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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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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