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Family up for a visit
2007-11-21 14:59:00
My Dad, Sister and Family came up to Atlanta for the Thanksgiving Holidays, and of course no trip to Atlanta can be complete without seeing the World of Coca-Cola. We loaded all the family up and made the trek downtown. All the kids got their full of the "carbonated drugs" at the end. Lincoln was the cutest when he tells me his stomach is bubbling and about to explode, he is five. I have a couple of pictures after the jump. [More]
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Using cfimage to create thumbnails
2007-11-18 23:08:00
I have been playing around with the new cfimage tag in coldfusion 8. I am very impressed with the resize capability. Coldfusion 8 seemed to do a great job resizing my images into thumbnails. I created a tutorial here. Here is a little bit of code to create thumbnails. Update: My Using CFIMAGE to Generate Thumbnails tutorial was published at learncf.com
More About: Tutorial , Adobe , Create

Life update
2007-11-18 22:02:00
Steven and I went down to the Acura dealership about a week ago. I traded in my TSX for a RDX and I am really enjoying it. Took me a little time to get the pictures up as I have been doing some site backend programming since I moved off of blogcfm, where my photo albums were hosted. The backend is not done yet but I can at least upload photos without opening SQL enterprise manager.
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Blog stats after 4 weeks on BlogCFC
2007-11-17 22:10:00
Well I have been running blogcfc for four weeks now, and I am still very pleased. I think I got everything configured how I like it now; but a website is always a work in progress in my opinion you are never really done. Now that I have been running it a month I am amazed at how many visits my individual post get. I run google analytics on my site but I never drilled down to the number of visitors per post. I would never have guessed that a post I wrote in February of 2006 would still get over 400 views in 4 weeks. Check out the blog stats page, one of my favorite features of blogcfc.
More About: Blog , Coldfusion , Stats , Weeks

Week of updates
2007-11-16 13:11:00
Wow this has been a week of updates! Apple released updates for iPhoto, 10.4.11, FCS2, 10.5.1 and of course the graphics firmware for the ATI 2600 iMacs. This morning I get to work and Adobe released a 170 meg update for Photoshop cs3.
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Export Categories in Blogcfc Google Sitemap
2007-11-16 03:19:00
Not anything really fancy but add this little bit of code to your blogcfc googlesitemap.cfm to have google also learn about your categories. The way I figure it you can never tell google too much about your site :) #application.blog.makeCategoryLink(catego ryid)# 0.3 weekly
More About: Google , Adobe , Coldfusion , Sitemap , Categories

Photoshop express will see daylight soon
2007-11-09 03:48:00
According to this article we may see Photoshop Express (the free online version of Photoshop) as early as this year. I have been a Flickr fan for some time now, and I am somewhat disappointed that they did not choose to use it.
More About: Technology , Adobe , Daylight

Captivate for Macintosh
2007-11-07 18:33:00
Hey please sign this petition to bring Captiva te to the Macintosh Platform http://www.petitiononline.com/capt4mac/pe tition.html
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Surprise from Apple
2007-11-05 17:19:00
I have been unpacking Macs for the last few days here at work. We now have a new traveling Mac laptop classroom capable of running Final Cut Studio 2. We also purchased new iMacs for Chicago. I was cloning the iMacs, when I found a nice little surprise from apple, a test disc. I am not really sure what it is used for it just contains a bunch of audio files, pictures after the jump. [More]
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Leopard (10.5)
2007-11-02 02:21:00
Well I did it I upgraded to Leopard this evening. Seems pretty stable, though it has only been running a few hours. I really like spaces; I know Linux has been having something similar for a while. I also like the new Finder with cover flow, but I do not know if I will get much use out of it. I will set time machine up before work tomorrow, so I will see how that goes. Bottom line opinion, nothing that will really set your world on fire here, but OS X continues to evolve in the right direction.
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Great info on Coldfusion 8
2007-10-31 03:15:00
I found a great article on why you should check out Coldfusion 8. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/program ming-and-development/?p=536
More About: Technology , Adobe , Great , Info

Second Blogcfc Survey
2007-10-28 23:47:00
The second Blogcfc Survey is up.
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NTSC Action on Adobe Studio Exchange
2007-10-28 19:24:00
My Photoshop NTSC action is now on Adobe Exchange . If you have not check out the Adobe Exchange it is a great place to download tons of mostly free stuff for all of the Adobe products. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/ind ex.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=13 04020
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Blackjack II
2007-10-24 11:11:00
With at&t announcing the Blackjack II (press release) yesterday. I am starting to wonder if we will every see Windows mobile 6 on the Blackjack. The message board thread is now 891 one post long. Will at&t every listen to there customers? I never thought I would say this but I am starting to feel I had better service when it was Cingular.
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Tivo HD Multi Room Viewing
2007-10-24 00:01:00
Tivo made it official yesterday Tivo HD/Tivo Series 3 now have Multi Room Viewing . Getting home tonight I set my Tivo HD to a force call home and sure enough, I had the wonderful pending restart. I restarted and all is well, Multi Room Viewing works great, a little slow on the browsing, but I noticed the speed change when my other two Tivos upgraded to 9.1. Press release after the jump. [More]
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Moved to BlogCFC
2007-10-19 21:02:00
I have been running BlogCFM for sometime now, and it has served me well. I was discouraged when I found out it was "abandonware". I was on a mission to find a new blog engine for blog.damonledet.com. I played with Mango Blog, Machblog, AVBlog, and BlogCFC. I decided on BlogCFC. It seems to be the most mature of the engines and has most of the features I was after. I ported all my data over from BlogCFM and setup a few 301 redirect (do not want to lose all that google love) and am now happily on BlogCFC. Thanks so much Ray for a wonderful Coldfusion blog engine. You Rock!
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Funny apple store easter egg
2007-10-19 00:00:00
Check out this funny store.apple.com easter egg. Goto the apple store website and search for "virus"
More About: Funny , Apple , Easter , Store , Apple Store

Premiere Pro 3.1 update
2007-10-18 22:27:00
Adobe has updated Premiere to 3.1 which includes P2/MXF support.
More About: Technology , Adobe , Update , Remi

Blog roll for BlogCFC
2007-10-18 22:20:00
I have been playing around with Ray Camden's Blog CFC for the past few weeks. I am planning on moving over from BlogCFM. One think that I really wanted with my new blog was the ability to easily update links in my blog roll. BlogCFC did not have this out the box, but I came up with a very easy whay of doing this. Using BlogCFC's Textblocks feature I created a textblok called "blog roll". Next I created a pod called blogroll.cfm and called my blog roll text block using SELECT BODY FROM dbo.tblblogtextblocks WHERE LABEL = 'Blog Roll ' #QBlogroll.body# Now all I have to do is update the links in my blog roll textblock, refresh blog cache and my blog roll is updated.
More About: Technology , Tutorial , Adobe

ledetfamily.com now on google apps
2007-10-18 03:07:00
I moved my play around domain (www.ledetfamily.com) onto google apps. I had setup and installed farcry on it some time back but never really used it. This post is mainly an update for the people still finding my farycry post from some time back.
More About: Google , Technology , Google Apps , Coldfusion

Remote into your Macintosh from Windows
2007-10-16 00:00:00
I discovered this great video how to on the net. It demonstrates how to setup remote desktop on the Macintosh for free, no need for apple remote desktop. It also allows you to control your Macintosh via a Windows machine. I have configured my Macintosh this way and it works great. I setup everything on a thumb drive so I can take it with me anywhere. On your windows, machine download puttygen.exe from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath am/putty/ Generate a private key file and save it on your thumb drive also save your public key file and copy it to the Macintosh you want to control. On your Macintosh, copy the “publickey.txt file you created in step 2 to your user directory. Make sure that port 22 is open to this Macintosh if you have any firewall in place Open terminal (applications/utilities) and type “mkdir .ssh” to create the .ssh folder Type “chmod 700 .ssh” Type “mv publickey.txt .ssh/authorized_keys...
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FCP 6 Instructor Certification
2007-10-16 00:00:00
I passed the Final Cut Pro 6 Instructor Cert ification today, and it was a tough one. Checkout the new features of FCP 6 including Apple’s very impressive format support.

Tivo Fall 2007 (9.1) update
2007-10-16 00:00:00
Turned the Tivo on this morning and I was greeted with a message that my Tivo received a service update. Hit now playing and my new Tivo HD showed up as a Tivo I could transfer from. Tried it no luck, it shows up but I cannot transfer from it yet. Logged onto my Tivo account and the little check box is still not available. It is so close now.As for the update the interface has been updated to the Tivo HD / Tivo series 3 interface. You also get the option to boolean search your wishlist. You can get on the priority request list if you cannot wait. It says you should have the update within three days once you put yourself on the list.
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Funny apple store easter egg
2007-10-16 00:00:00
Check out this funny store.apple.com easter egg. Goto the apple store website and search for "virus"
More About: Funny , Apple , Easter , Store , Apple Store

Ghost Tour - Lawrenceville, GA
2007-10-16 00:00:00
I did not realize that Lawrenceville, Georgia and Gwinnett County had so much history, from Larry Flint being shot right in downtown Lawrenceville to Barbara Mackle being buried alive for 81 hours in Gwinnett County. I learned these facts and well as many other, and of course a few hard to believe things on the Scary Stroll last night. It is a great little hour and a half walking ghost tour of historic Lawrenceville. Check out a couple of pictures of the old jail after the jump.
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Georgia Renaissance Festival
2007-10-16 00:00:00
Here are some pictures from the Georgia Renaissance Festival that I took Saturday June 2, 2007. We had a great time.

Photoshop Express on the horizon
2007-10-16 00:00:00
Photoshop Express , a free web based Photoshop application may soon see the light of day. http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/09/phot oshop_expre.html
More About: Photoshop , Izon , Horizon , Photosho

Tivo Fall 2007 (9.1) update
2007-10-15 11:10:00
Turned the Tivo on this morning and I was greeted with a message that my Tivo received a service update. Hit now playing and my new Tivo HD showed up as a Tivo I could transfer from. Tried it no luck, it shows up but I cannot transfer from it yet. Logged onto my Tivo account and the little check box is still not available. It is so close now.As for the update the interface has been updated to the Tivo HD / Tivo series 3 interface. You also get the option to boolean search your wishlist. You can get on the priority request list if you cannot wait. It says you should have the update within three days once you put yourself on the list.
More About: Technology , Update , Fall

Funny apple store easter egg
2007-10-14 22:07:00
Check out this funny store.apple.com easter egg. Goto the apple store website and search for "virus"
More About: Funny , Apple , Easter , Store , Apple Store

New Photo Albums
2007-10-14 00:00:00
Still a work in progress but I am working on getting my photos out of blog cfm and in there own area of my site at http://www.damonledet.com/photos. Check out the photo pages I implemented lightbox.
More About: Photo , Albums