Checking out the wiki I see the following folks are on the docket to present:

Why DemoCampVictoria was created (Mark Lise)

Fortuno (Jesse and Jason)

Genetify (Andrew)

BountyUp – Social Commerce (Joshua McKenty and Todd Khozein)

DailySplice (Rian)

Flock – the social web browser (Clayton Stark and other flockers)

Songbird (Steven Bengtson and Peter Van Hardenberg) Source: BarCamp wiki / DemoCampVictoria01

I hadn’t checked out Songbird in a long time, but maybe it’s time to finally give it a look.  Flock?  Well, maybe.  Gotta see if I can get a couple extensions to work with it, but if I can–I might.

I my post on March 17 about DemoCampVictoria01, I mentioned that I might have some schwag to bring and, yes there will be schwag.  I have some b5media stickers (a few not a ton), some aideRSS t-shirts and honestly I don’t know what goodies are coming from Toronto from the b5media nerve centre–but I know I’m getting a swanky new b5 t-shirt.

DemoCampVictoria01 is at 5:30 PM, 834 Johnson St. (Juliet Living Demo Space, a.k.a. the OLD peacock billiards place).

Also coming up is the Victoria stop of the VC Roundtable led by Rick Segal.  We’re hosting Rick in the Garden City on April 21st.  It is from 8-10 AM at the Waddling Dog Pub on the Pat Bay Highway (if you’re from here, you know where I’m talking about).

Space is limited to 25 people so sign up now through Eventbrite for the Victoria session.  And thanks to Mark Lise for finding the Waddling Dog as the spot!

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Who will be presenting at DemoCampVictoria01 and update on Victoria VC Roundtable

Welp, count me in! The event is free to attend, and it sounds like the round up so far is interesting (demo’s from the Flock guys in Vic, and an interesting new social commerce app called BountyUp). There’s one idea that’s missing that I personally think is really cool, called TeamPages; a social app that facilitates athletes, their coaches, and parents in organizing and scheduling teams (designed by MetaLab). But, that’s already been developed and DemoCamp seems more of a brainstorm-esque event. Source: DemoCampVictoria at Better Web Posse

DemoCampVictoria01 is April 3rd, 5:30 PM at the Juliet Showroom, 834 Johnson St (map).  Sign up on the wiki page to attend or present.  Myself I will be there camera and laptop in hands (it’s about 40 lbs of gear all together folks) to cover the event.  Now, to my beloved peeps over in Vangroovy, come on over!  I have a fold out futon couch, bunk beds (yes they are the kids’), and even a fold out fish bed (don’t ask).

As Gels pointed out, and Aidan posted about recently, the Victoria tech scene is nothing to sneeze at (or even cough at for that matter).  I can’t wait to see what is going to be demo-ed.  Hmm, maybe I should see if I can get some b5media schwag to give out.

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DemoCampVictoria01 April 3rd–let’s show off the rocking stuff Victoria has to offer

Since Web Community Forum in December I’ve been using, and loving, ACDSee Pro2 to import, manage, and edit my images.  Connie Bensen, ACDSee’ uber community manager got a bunch of us hooked on it in December and she got Lee Hopkins hooked on it as well it appears.

So, why.  Why is this app so good when everyone raves about Adobe Lightroom?  It isn’t the just the price (ACDSee Pro2 is much more affordable, though I did get an NFR license), it’s because this app gives me just the basics when I need it and the details when I need them.

Most of the time I don’t do too much editing with my pictures, but recently I’ve been playing with cropping and other retouching (fixing colour in RAW images.  I love how I can just crop to common print sizes and the auto colour fixing tools are, well, just astounding.

For some examples of my recent cropping and colour work, you can see my recent post on my personal blog now for the fun stuff I have a few pictures I’ve tweaked:

It was really easy to achieve these effects.  You have probably noticed that all these images are hosted on Flickr.  One of the royal pains in the, well you know, is getting pictures up to Flickr.  Flickr’s own download tool has some great features, but is completely unreliable. ACDSee has a really good uploader.  It’s not perfect, but I can rely on it to get the pictures up there.  I would like it if I could set the privacy on the pictures, but I can set tags, pick and create sets, and edit titles and tags on individual pictures.

I’m surprised how often people don’t use decent photo software.  If you’re using Windows, give it a try.  There is a 21-day trial on the software so there isn’t anything to lose.

For more info you can check out the main ACDSee Photo Software site, the ACDSee blog and the very active ACDSee user forums.

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ACDSee Pro2 powerful and easy photo editing and management software