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Touching on Touchscreen Support
Touchscreens are no longer just for tablets and phones. Touchscreen laptop computers and desktops are becoming the norm, if not more common, in the computer market. Much of this has been spurred-on by...
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Linux for Photography
Linux is a wonderful operating system, but one thing that gets overlooked a lot is how it can help a photographer’s workflow. In this article I discuss the software that’s available and my workflows,...
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Tree on a Farm
Originally posted on Mountainside Images: When you see an image, it’s really easy to take your camera, point, and click. For a landscape photographer, such as myself, it’s point, pray, and click if...
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Accidentally AWESOME!
Originally posted on Mountainside Images: Earlier today, I was looking outside at my parents’ cherry tree and noticed some pretty good lighting on its blossoms. I decided to grab my camera and take...
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Departing The Colony
I guess it was never made clear, but I wanted to mention that back in early March, I stepped-down from producing for Jupiter Broadcasting. I love the work they do, and the crew is top-notch. I met some...
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I’m done. (a rant)
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been doing some soul searching. If you’ve followed me for a long time, you know that I tend to err on the side of frugality. I choose photography equipment and...
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Seven Months Later
Wow. I can’t believe I haven’t posted in seven months. Way too long. Normally I’d delete the blog and start over, but… meh. Looking at my last blog post, I had just switched to Windows from Linux and...
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Linux for Photography
Linux is a wonderful operating system, but one thing that gets overlooked a lot is how it can help a photographer’s workflow. In this article I discuss the software that’s available and my workflows,...
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The Next Step in the Journey
The great recession hit our family hard, and so did some unfortunate timing. My wife and I got married in late December of 2006. We have been married for nearly 10 years. When we got married we lived...
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What am I Going to Do With This Thing?
Just like any family that is planning on doing the RV thing full time, we have to severely downsize. For the most part, that will be easy. Amy’s mom called dibs on the bedroom set, her sister called...
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Specs for Mac Pro
A good friend of mine brought up a good point. I need to post the specs for the Mac Pro that I need to trade for a MacBook Pro. So, here they are: Mac Pro (Early 2008) Processor: 2 x 3.2 GHz Quad-Core...
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We Found It!
Yesterday Amy and I went “Window Shopping” for an RV, and found exactly what we want/need. For our needs as a family, it would be perfect for us. Wanna see it? Here it is: a 2017 Keystone Cougar XLite...
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Consolidation, digitally speaking.
One of the biggest challenges to downsizing is consolidation. There are going to be items to store, and the accessibility of those items is going to be very limited. There are three things that I have...
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Our Progress
Since it’s been close to 7 months since my last post, so I figured I’m a bit overdue. In terms of consolidation, a few things happened: I sold the Mac Pro in exchange for a MacBook Pro. I bought an...
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Touchscreens are no longer just for tablets and phones. Touchscreen laptop computers and desktops are becoming the norm, if not more common, in the computer market. Much of this has been spurred-on by...
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Linux is a wonderful operating system, but one thing that gets overlooked a lot is how it can help a photographer’s workflow. In this article I discuss the software that’s available and my workflows,...
View ArticleOne Year Leading Ubuntu Studio
I hardly know how to describe this entire past year. If I had one word to describe it, that would be “surreal.” Just a little over a year ago, I answered a call to put together a council for Ubuntu...
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Gearing Up for Linux Fest Northwest 2019!
This next weekend (April 26-28th, 2019) I will be in Bellingham at Bellingham Technical College for Linux Fest Northwest to help at the Ubuntu table! I will be demonstrating Ubuntu Studio and my audio...
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My Linux Fest Northwest 2019 Story
I got back from Linux Fest Northwest 2019 on Sunday. Despite the horrible traffic to and from, it was a great time. Friday Night Dinner First thing I did was check-in to my hotel room, then I met up...
View ArticlePutting-On a New Hat
Before I began leading Ubuntu Studio, I was using a “spin” of Fedora called Fedora Jam. It was a musician/audio “lab” for Fedora which seemed to work well for me. Think of it as Ubuntu Studio minus...
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