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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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    smugmug at COBA

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    March 31, 2005

    smugmug will be presenting at the April 13, 2005, meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area. The company has been around for 30 months now and has over 60,000 customers totalling 18,000,000 images! The company is supremely dedicated to its customers and has features not seen in many…

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    iPod Photo Connector Reviewed

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    March 31, 2005

    There’s a review on the iPod Photo Connector out on Playlist. The skinny? While it downloads RAW images from digital cameras, it can’t (yet) display them. Plus, the transfer rates seem to be pretty slow (12 minutes for 250MB) and battery drain is significant. Looks like I’ll be holding onto…

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    NetNewsWire

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    March 31, 2005

    Here’s to second chances! Alex has been using NetNewsWire for a couple of years now and is a big fan of the Mac OS X newsreader. Though I used it for a little bit, I found myself going back to the browser and my list of bookmarks to read news.…

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    Canon Firmware Updates

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    March 29, 2005

    Canon has posted firmware updates for the EOS-1D Mark II and the EOS-1Ds Mark II. Three new languages (Russian, Traditional Chinese, and Korean) added to the camera menus Improvement in communication reliability when using some CF cards The issue of communication failure between the camera and some personal computers has…

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    Eric's Loft

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    March 28, 2005

    Last weekend, I went over to Eric’s loft in Oakland to test his Dell 3000cn color laser printer. I’m still thinking of purchasing a 3100cn, which just happens to be on sale again. 40% off via a techbargains.com coupon! It’s very tempting, at least until you think about the high…

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    Cindy's Something-Something Party

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    March 24, 2005

    Last Saturday, Rae and I attended Cindy’s something-something birthday party at her place in Santa Clara. We had come from San Jose, where we saw film Year of the Yao, a documentary covering the first year of Yao Ming’s career in the NBA. It’s hitting theaters nationwide at the end…

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  • Technology

    LaserJet 6MP Resucitated

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    March 21, 2005

    My trusty LaserJet 6MP, which had stopped working over three weeks ago, has finally been resucitated. Who knows how much longer it will work, but I’m happy that I can now print again from my Macs. I originally thought that the source of the problem was the Farallon iPrint Ethernet…

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    Image Annotation

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    March 17, 2005

    Longtime readers will know that I’ve undertaken a huge task of annotating all of my images. At last count, I have taken over 70,000 images since October, 1998. I started this project at the end of 2003, and it’s taken me over a year to get to this point. Five…

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    Screen Capture Tip

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    March 16, 2005

    I’ve known about the Command-Shift-3 (and Command-Shift-4 in OS X) shortcut to take screenshots of a Mac for years. That said, I always wanted a way to save the screenshot to the clipboard. The answer was right there in front of my face the whole time! Command-Shift-Control-3 and Command-Shift-Control-4! Knowing…

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  • Technology

    Dell 3100cn Opinions

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    March 15, 2005

    Dell’s got another 30% off deal for the 3100cn color laser printer. I missed a 40% off deal by a week, so the price will be $384 (instead of $330) after discount. I’ve read a few reviews, and the consensus is that it’s a very good print. Cons include it…

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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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