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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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    Synergy

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    November 29, 2005

    Eric posted a link to Synergy: synergy: [noun] a mutually advantageous conjunction of distinct elements Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk…

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    PowerMac Quad G5

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    November 25, 2005

    My PowerMac Quad G5 arrived less than a week ago. This review covers my experiences the past week that I have had the Quad. My installation checklist went as follows. As you will soon learn, this was not the way it should have been done. Open Box Install RAM Migrate…

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    Worldwide Newton Conference 2006

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    November 24, 2005

    Here’s the PR for the upcoming Worldwide Newton Conference 2006. I spoke at the inaugural conference in Paris a year ago. —- Attention all GREENskeepers: The 2006 Worldwide Newton Conference is scheduled to take place immediately following MacWorld San Francisco, January 13-15, at the Warwick Regis Hotel in downtown San…

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    FireWire/USB PCI Card Sleep Issues

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    November 18, 2005

    For as long as I can remember, my PowerMac G4 has not been able to sleep nor restart properly. Whenever I put the computer to sleep, nothing I did could bring the computer back. When I restarted it, the fans come on, but the display either stayed black or remained…

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    Aperture Compatibility Checker

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    November 18, 2005

    Aperture Checker determines whether or not your computer has the necessary horsepower, RAM, and graphics ability to run Aperture. On my 867MHz Quicksilver, it said: Aperture cannot be installed on this computer. Aperture requires at least a 1.8 GHz Power Mac G5, a 1.8 GHz iMac G5, or a 1.25…

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    Shipped!

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    November 17, 2005

    Update: Looks like it just left Anaheim today, meaning it won’t come in until Monday, November 21. ==== Damn. It won’t be long now. Shipped on Nov 16, 2005 via FED EX GROUND PMG5 QUAD 2.5 CTO Estimated delivery: Nov 18, 2005

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    Beijing Wushu Team

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    November 17, 2005

    Did you know that the Beijing Wushu Team is in town and will be performing in Cupertino on Friday and Sunday evening! I last saw them in 1995 when my Stanford Tai-Chi class went into the heart of the lion’s den at Zellerbach Auditorium. Coincidentally, Rae was also in attendance,…

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    Portfolio Revised

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    November 15, 2005

    I just launched the revision to my online portfolio. The layout has been refreshed and I updated — thanks to Paperture — the wedding photos. I also added our custom designed wedding invitations and consolidated the People/Portrait, Music/Performance, and Nature/Places sections. Besides the wedding images, everything dates back to 2003,…

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    Paperture

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    November 14, 2005

    I’m currently revising my online wedding portfolio. Rae and I have been spending some time going through every wedding that we’ve shot. We ended up selecting 81 photographs, which will soon be highlighted in a nine-page spread. We needed a way to visually organize each page’s worth of images. Sadly,…

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  • COBA, Journal, Photography

    November 2006 COBA

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    November 10, 2005

    You know it has been a great COBA meeting when no one has left the meeting until the very end. Michael Soo and Eric Cheng gave terrific presentations on photo contests and underwater photography. Michael was recently awarded the Photographer of the Year award by Popular Photography magazine. He stressed…

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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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