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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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    October 2005 COBA

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    October 13, 2005

    I’ve posted a quick recap from the COBA meeting last night. If you were unable to make it to the meeting, you can download Chris’ presentation. A number of people came to see the Canon EOS 5D first-hand. Mark and Steve were two members who have already received their 5D’s.…

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    Canon Firmware Updates

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    October 12, 2005

    Canon has released new firmware updates for the Canon 1Ds Mark II (v1.1.4) and the Canon 1D Mark II (v.1.2.4). Updates include: (1Ds Mark II only) Fixes the phenomenon of horizontal line noise appearing when P.Fn-21 is set to ON. Fixes the phenomenon of horizontal line noise appearing occasionally in…

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    New GigaPxl Images

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    October 10, 2005

    Check out the latest images from Catherine and Graham’s GigaPxl Project. They are truly breathtaking to look at. The shot of the Space Shuttle Discovery on its launching pad is out of this world! Graham and Catherine spoke at a COBA meeting last year, and it’s great to see them…

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    RDVP Welcome Reception

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    October 8, 2005

    The Reuters Digital Vision Program held their welcome reception at Cordura Hall last week. We started using posters to describe our projects at the end of the 2003-2004 school year. I had created some large posters detailing the work of Heather Ford’s Creative Commons and Raphael Marambii’s ZebuNet projects. Since…

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    October 2005 COBA Meeting Announcement

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    October 6, 2005

    The October 2005 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from 7:30-10:30 pm. Canon EOS 5D It’s hard to believe that 5 years ago, the state of the art was…

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    Large Format Printing

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    October 6, 2005

    A number of people have been asking me about our wedding invitations and the posters we made from them. ElcoColor handled all of our large printing needs. The company’s Internet Only Specials are very inexpensive for getting prints from 20×30 up to 30×60 inches in size. As of today, prices…

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    RDVP Portraits

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    September 25, 2005

    On Friday, Rae and I photographed the 2005-2006 group of Digital Vision Fellows at Stanford. There’s a few more fellows remaining to be photographed, and I will capture most of them at the October 4 welcoming reception. It’s always exciting to meet a new batch of fellows and hear about…

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    FeedLounge Meetup

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    September 22, 2005

    Alex and Scott of FeedLounge were in the Bay Area for meetings. They held a get together for current and prospective users of their excellent web-based newsreader at Borders in Palo Alto. It’s been quite some time since I last saw Alex, and it was good to reconnect with him!

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    Football Uniforms

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    September 19, 2005

    Found an interesting article on football uniforms on ESPN’s Page 2. Now that the season has started — though my Chargers are playing like it’s still the preseason — it’s time to admire or be shocked at some of the new uniforms in the league. I think the new, yet…

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    smugmug maps

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    September 12, 2005

    The wizards at smugmug have done it again with the release of smugmug maps. Annotating your images with location information will allow you to overlay your images onto Google Maps. I’ve had it on my to-do list to write an application like this for quite some time. Now I can…

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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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