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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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    Weekend Wedding Photo Notes

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    February 16, 2005

    Rae and I shot my cousin’s wedding this past weekend. We had a full schedule of shooting in multiple locations: Redwood Shores, Los Altos, and San Jose. On one hand, family weddings are good because you know pretty much everybody attending. On the other [photography] hand, they can be bad…

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    Server Down

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    February 16, 2005

    If anybody tried to visit this site in the past 2 hours, you no doubt noticed it’s been down. Apparently, one of the co-location routers bit the dust. What’s this I hear about 99.5% uptime?!? Thanks for your patience during this downtime.

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    Protected: Lisa and Chris

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    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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    Quicksilver meets the Mac mini

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    February 10, 2005

    At the COBA meeting last night, Harold brought his Mac mini to help with the monitor profiling presentation. Similarly, I transported my Quicksilver PowerMac and my 17″ Studio Display. A quick glance might lead one to think that the PowerMac is the more powerful of the two computers, but nothing…

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    Monitor and Printer Profiling

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    February 10, 2005

    Monitor and Printer Profiling — closing the color management loop — was the feature presentation during the February 9, 2005, COBA meeting. I’ve been wanting to get my 17″ Studio Display and my 12″ PowerBook monitors profiled correctly for quite some time. Though I have a ColorVision Optical Spyder (a…

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    Einstein

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    February 8, 2005

    It was said that it couldn’t be done. Well boys and girls, it’s here! Actually, Einstein has been around publicly for over a month, and I didn’t even realize it! The Einstein Emulator (DR2) emulates an Apple Newton MessagePad 2×00 or an eMate 300 on Mac OS X (with X11…

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    Gigapxl Article in Wired

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    February 7, 2005

    Wired News is running an article by Leander Kahney on the Gigapxl camera by Graham Flint and Catherine Aves. They spoke at COBA in July of last year, wowing the crowd with their higher-than-high resolution images. There’s even a quote from me in the article: “Graham’s unique background has made…

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    Super Bowl with No Cilantro

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    February 6, 2005

    Congrats to the Patriots for winning their third Super Bowl in four years. I hated Pats back when they beat the Rams in 2002, but I have grown to respect and admire the team. Next year, however, no more championships for the New England/Boston area! I’m rooting for my —…

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    Podwave Speakers

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    February 1, 2005

    For some time now, I’ve been looking for portable speakers to use with an iPod during exercise. I don’t like wearing headphones (one ear or two ears) because (1) it’s dangerous because it insulates you from your surroundings and (2) I believe it’s illegal in California to wear two headphones…

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    Transferring content to WordPress

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    February 1, 2005

    Kaplaaa! I’ve succeeded in transferring most of my old photojournal entries into WordPress! The process was greatly simplified after I wrote an AppleScript to handle each post. The script parsed two files used by my old entries: (1) an XML configuration file containing the post’s title, publish date, and header…

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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 MixEffect, MsgFiler, AlbumFiler, 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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