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My team and I played a major part in making this new online service launch a reality. Go check it out at http://www.photoshop.com/express.

Recently I set up a new recurring backup scheme from my PC’s main data drive to a 1TB Buffalo TeraStation II Pro NAS device but ran into a strange problem. I was planning to use RoboCopy as an easy and cheap (read: free) solution to a recurring backup. However, I was baffled by RoboCopy’s insistence on copying some files despite options instructing it to only copy changed files. No matter what I did, RoboCopy would always re-copy some files.
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My team and I played a part in making this software release a reality. It’s great to see it hitting the stores and getting rave reviews.

A while back I posted a script that generates a histogram chart from a set of categories in my DAM software. I recently augmented that script to also show the total disk space occupied by the files tagged with those categories. (more…)

Long time ago I developed this tiny script for the IMatch DAM tool mostly as a proof-of-concept more than an tool for active use. Anyway, it occurred to me that it might useful or amusing for some people, or maybe a starting point for more elaborate scripts.

This script takes the name of the currently selected category in IMatch, and launches a web browser to show the Wikipedia search hits for that name. For example, if I select category Palo Alto in the IMatch category panel and run this script, it will launch the browser to show the Wikipedia topic for the city of Palo Alto. (more…)