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Last month, I was forced* to upgrade my Adobe CS6 Production Premium to CC. I have been fighting with it ever since. If anyone asks me, it is a downgrade. The most debilitating problem with Premiere Pro CC is that the new playback engine under CC didn’t like my video card. Playback was extremely choppy, […]
It was circa 1999 when I bought a Palm V, my first PDA. I learned how to develop applications for Palm OS, which was done in C. I wrote a few useful little applications, and I was even paid by a client to develop a simple application. Later, I acquired a Treo 650, my first […]
At work, we use monitoring systems to alert us to problems with the system, so that we can react to them quickly. We take the monitoring systems quite seriously. Today, on one of my personal servers, I discovered that a service had crashed, and I hadn’t noticed for fifteen hours. It was quite a shock […]
I learned the Pascal programming language in high school, during the 80’s. I could have learned it on my own before that, but since my school was offering it, I figured I would learn it there. The class was thorough, I caught on quickly, and I still remember most of it. Later I bought a […]
Once upon a time, I bought Pro Tools, which is software for recording and making music electronically. I spent a lot of money on it, and when I got it home, I discovered that it won’t even work with a sound card. (It can, with a piece of software that emulates an ASIO driver, but […]
One of the problems with wearing t-shirts that have esoteric computer geek things on them is that periodically airhead girls will come up to you and tell you they like your shirt, and you’ll spend the next five minutes explaining that they have no idea what it means, and whatever they thought was funny about […]
For years, I did my photo editing with the GIMP and BreezeBrowser Pro. About a year ago, I finally made the jump to PhotoShop CS5 because I needed more control over RAW conversion, and I have been very happy with it. I have gradually been getting more serious about video. Up until recently, I had […]
As a direct result of Apple’s announcement, I went out and bought an Android phone. Almost three years ago, I bought an iPhone 3G. It was sort of an impulse buy, in the sense that once I understood its capabilities, I was sold, and I went out and bought one immediately. Of course, that was […]
