Technology

  • Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire

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    I’ve been selling/donating books and throwing out old magazines. I’m saving space and money by going digital. The Evo has a huge screen but I still have eye strain when reading from it. My birthday is coming way too soon. I want/need the new Amazon Kindle…

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  • Tinker & Tweak

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    Little DVD had a piece of her toy snap off and asked me to repair it recently. Once the part was snapped back into place she exclaimed that I was “just like Tinkerbell!” I assume she meant that I could fix things as well as…

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  • Integration Testing

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    In another effort to de-complicate and simplify my digital world, I reworked my dual-boot Hybrid laptop. I deleted the Windows partition and added that hard disk space towards the Linux Ubuntu side. Hybrid PC no longer.  Ubuntu has won over Windows because of it’s simplicty…

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  • About Face

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    Following the recent changes and hype regarding Facebook, I’ve decided to delete my account.  I’ve focused a lot of my energy back into this website and Google Plus. 

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  • Clean Slate

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    Ever feel like taking the pages out of your notebook and ripping them out to start over? Yeah, me too. Since you are reading this you are involved in the process as well. The Facebook accounts are “scheduled” for deletion, the GReader inbox has been…

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  • Leaner, Faster

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    I took some time last night to make the website’s design more responsive and streamlined. There may be a few glitches and interface changes.

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  • Never Satisfied

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    I’m doing it again. As the website’s current byline claims: “Never satisfied”, I am reorganizing and streamlining. Project 1: Adding Daphne’s images to her web gallery which is tied into this website http://chrisdenbow.com/dvd Project 2: Migrating all of my images off of both Flickr accounts (6…

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  • This is My Space

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    This website was created about the same time MySpace was coming online back in 2000 and I’ve always said this is my main outlet. Sure, I’ve been lured by social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and now Google+, but always managed to find my…

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  • DarkTable

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    The new, open-source photo editing software, Darktable looks promising. It is an alternative to the $300 Adobe Lightroom software which I already own on the WIndows laptop. Darktable is currently running on the Ubuntu Linux laptop. So far so good!

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  • Version 11.2

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    Yes, the website is going under another massive redesign. Yes, I am never satisfied. No, I am not too concerned with you lagging behind. Do try to keep, won’t you? Oh, and thank you for your patience and continued reading! 

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  • Changes

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    Thanks to GoDaddy.com and its support of SOPA, I am in the process of transferring my domain name (chrisdenbow.com) to NameCheap. The website should NOT have any down time during the process but I’ll be monitoring it. If you need me, join me on Google…

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  • Top 13 Android Apps So Far

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    After almost a month with my new HTC Evo mobile device, I have had opportunities to discover useful applications that I wanted to share. A lot of these utilities are cross-platform (Android, iPhone, desktop) and the rest are Android specific. All of these apps are…

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