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2012 Mobile Outlook

2011 was an active year for mobile platforms - new versions of the major smartphone operating systems were released, Android tablet manufacturers responded en masse to the iPad, and partnerships, acquisitions, and new players that will shape the space in the coming year all came about. What does that mean for 2012?
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EXIF Quick Reference

Over the past few years, I've used the EXIF data stored by modern digital cameras in a couple of programs I've worked on. Having access to the date the photo was taken - or which way the camera was rotated when it was - is useful information to have. Even though it's relatively easy to do, finding the right identifier for the information you want is much harder than it should be. This page fills that niche - the most useful/popular EXIF properties in an easy-to-find format.
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Better Printed Photos: Naming with Date Taken

Whenever I’ve needed to print digital photos, I’ve found that Photolab – the photo processing arm of the Canadian grocery chain Loblaws – has always done a great job.  Photos are typically printed in a day or less, are easy to pick up – just stop by your local supermarket! – and have always turned [...]
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Sending Email with PowerShell: Implicit and Explicit SSL

I never quite understood the attraction of scripting; sure, not having to set up the scaffolding code of a more formal language is nice, but the limitations of the environment just seemed too great.  The Unix community has it far better than the Windows community in this regard; shell scripting can accomplish amazing feats – [...]
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Technical Protectionism

There’s a well known concept in economics known as comparative advantage.  A formal definition has many nuances, but the basic principle can be summed up as each party undertaking the work that they are most productive at, such that the overall production of the system is higher than it would be if each party performed [...]
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