RE: Introducing Bert Latamore

Bert,

It will depend on how distinctive the head shot is.  I have icons of
Shakespeare, Ben Franklin, Martin Luther King, George Washington, Einstein,
etc. that are recognizable.

Leti

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> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bert Latamore
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 7:45 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [IconMgr] Introducing Bert Latamore
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> Leti,
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> I may try the experiment with some head shots of friends. but 
> 20X18 pixels doesn't sound like very much. 
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> So besides Shadow, Datebk6 and HandiShopper, what apps are 
> out there that use icons? I am always interested in adding 
> more icons-using apps to my PDA.
> 
> Bert
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: leti <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:02:31 PM
> Subject: RE: [IconMgr] Introducing Bert Latamore
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> I have turned many photographs into icons.  Sometimes it 
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> sometimes it's awful!  You need to find photos that are 
> fairly simple.  I
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> use Photoshop Elements to edit the file and shrink it down to 
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> number of pixels (20x18) and save it as .bmp.  I have 
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> actually) of icons I've created.  I don't actually USE this 
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> that use icons, but I get a lot of pleasure out of creating them.
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> Leti
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> > From: IconMgr@yahoogroups .com
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> > [mailto:IconMgr@yahoogroups .com] On Behalf Of Bert Latamore
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> > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:12 AM
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> > To: IconMgr@yahoogroups .com
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> > Subject: [IconMgr] Introducing Bert Latamore
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> > Hi, I am a new member here although I am certainly not new to
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> > IconMgr, Icons, or the Palm OS. I am an advanced user of my
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> > Palm Tungsten T3 both for personal and professional uses, and
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> > I use Icons at every opportunity. I learned about this group
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> > from a note posted by a member on the Datebk6 group, and I
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> > joined mainly because I am always looking for good sources of
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> > new icons. So I plan to raid your icon database and add the
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> > icons there to my collection, which includes several sets I
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> > bought on PalmGear.
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> > I am a professional freelance writer in the computer
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> > industry. Among other things I write a blog for ComputerWorld
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> > Online called "The PDA Guerilla" (link below) in which I
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> > write about advanced use of PDAs and the gadget lifestyle. I
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> > mention that because I hope some members here will find my
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> > blog interesting and because I may mention this group along
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> > with others in a blog some day. I also write a weekly column
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> > on network issues for ComputerWorld Online, I am US
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> > Correspondent for PharmaTechnology, a quarterly magazine
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> > published in the PRC, and I have three private clients. So I
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> > keep busy. My professional background includes five years as
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> > a writer at the late and lamented META Group, four at
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> > Gartner, and 35 years total of professional writing experience.
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> > Personally, I am 60 years old, I live with my wife, Moire,
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> > our dog, Belle, our cat, Marshmallow, and our two parrots,
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> > Zax (blue and gold macaw) and bogart (white eyed conure) in
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> > Linden, VA, in the Shanendoah Valley outside Washington, DC.
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> > And my question for the group is: Is there any way to turn
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> > Glad to be here,
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> > Bert Latamore
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> > Read my blog on PDA use at:
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> > http://www.computer world.com/ blogs/latamore
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