Monthly Archives: January 2006

COBA February Meeting: Raw Processing Software

Posted on January 31, 2006 by Adam Tow

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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WWNC 2006 Day #2

Posted on January 21, 2006 by Adam Tow

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 … Continue reading →

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Einstein on Nokia 770

Posted on January 18, 2006 by Adam Tow

Einstein is now running on a Nokia 770 phone!

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NTK on Mac OS X

Posted on January 16, 2006 by Adam Tow

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 … Continue reading →

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WWNC 2006

Posted on January 14, 2006 by Adam Tow

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 … Continue reading →

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Robert Maranga in Red Herring

Posted on January 12, 2006 by Adam Tow

Digital Vision Fellow Robert Maranga is featured in Red Herring this month!

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Networking Troubleshooting

Posted on January 12, 2006 by Adam Tow

I’ve got a networking troubleshooting problem for readers to help me solve. Network transfer performance when copying from my Quicksilver PowerMac G4 to my Quad is really slow, 1MB/second. Both machines have Gigabit Ethernet, so transfer rates should be at … Continue reading →

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Ed “Hercules” Hochuli

Posted on January 11, 2006 by Adam Tow

You’ve seen him officiating NFL games for the past 12 years. Now learn how he stays fit!

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No January 2006 COBA Meeting

Posted on January 10, 2006 by Adam Tow

This is a reminder that there will be no January 2006 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group. The next meeting will be held on February 8, 2006. We will be discussing new RAW processing … Continue reading →

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Adobe Lightroom

Posted on January 8, 2006 by Adam Tow

Adobe fired back at Apple with a public beta release of Lightroom. The beta is fully functional until June, 2006! There’s quite a bit missing from this iteration, especially in the realm of metadata handling, but Adobe plans to release … Continue reading →

Posted in Aperture, Journal, Photography | 3 Comments