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Celtx, why have ye abandoned us?

December 3, 2013 By Dan Finnen

After several decades of increasingly high-powered computational devices, it seems like word processing software is something we should be able to take for granted by now. Writing on a computer has been a thing since the days of hybrid computer/typewriters. You’d think we have this stuff down by now. And for the most part we […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: celtx, computers, final draft, screenwriting, software, text

New review: Fuji Instax Mini Instant Film

November 27, 2013 By Dan Finnen

To follow up my review of the Fuji Instax Mini 8 camera this week, I’ve added a detailed discussion of the Fuji Instax Mini format itself. The film seems to be enjoying the robust support of Fujifilm, with new cameras coming out at a surprisingly regular clip. The film itself is great, but its size […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: alerts, fuji instax mini, Instant film, new review

New camera review: Fuji Instax Mini 8

November 25, 2013 By Dan Finnen

Last week I discussed the best kind of camera to use in events like weddings and parties, and I recommended using the Fuji Instax Mini 8. I realized that it might not be the best idea to tell people to use a camera that I haven’t exhaustively vetted previously, so I got a hold of […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: camera, fuji instax, Instant film, mini 8, new review alert, parties, weddings

New Short Play: Santa Shock

November 25, 2013 By Dan Finnen

For those of you unfamiliar with these here parts, I regularly put up short plays and scripts on my other site Dungheap.net for people to use for free. The Dungheap is a rather eclectic collection of the floatsam that occurs when I’m just writing for the sake of writing or to recharge my batteries between […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Christmas, dungheap, dungheap.net, play, Santa Shock, script

Photo Galleries are back up!

November 20, 2013 By Dan Finnen

The last big missing piece of the site after the update is back online! You can now find all my old photo collections on the photo gallery page. I’ll be posting some new gallery stuff soon, but feel free to take a look around. I suggest starting out with my Portfolio, Heaven, and the Disposables.

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: danfinnen.com 3.0, site news

I’m in love with a mechanical keyboard

November 18, 2013 By Dan Finnen

Maximum PC magazine is dangerous. To paraphrase Calvin and Hobbes, I saw a bunch of products in a magazine that I didn’t know existed, but now desperately need. That need for me was mechanical computer keyboards. A luxury product if there ever was one, mechanical keyboards use switches rather than the smooshy membrane things that […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: computer gear, cooler master, impulse buy, mechanical keyboard, nerd stuff, pc building

New Article Alert: The Early Films, Failures and Triumphs of the Impossible Project

November 15, 2013 By Dan Finnen

When I was revamping this site, I had to pretty much re-create ever single article and review I had written before. Staring at a whole mess of film reviews for Impossible Project generations that had long ceased to be sold, I felt like it was insane to recreate them all on the new site. However, […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: articles, danfinnen.com 3.0, history, Instant film, new article alert, the impossible project

New Article: Dan’s Top Ten Tips for Growing Up Hard of Hearing

November 6, 2013 By Dan Finnen

Dan’s Top Ten Tips for Growing Up Hard of Hearing is an article that I wrote nearly a year ago, but until now, really didn’t have anywhere to put online. I passed it around to a few audiologists and hard of hearing people, but now it has a home on my site. Enjoy! Speaking of […]

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Filed Under: Hard of Hearing Tagged With: danfinnen.com 3.0, hard of hearing, new article

Welcome to the new DanFinnen.com

October 26, 2013 By Dan Finnen

Welcome to DanFinnen.com 3.0! This site started many years ago as a flat personal webpage that looked like garbage (too much red!) When I graduated from college in 2011, I tentatively started adding articles and reviews about photography, which quickly expanded in popularity and became the reason 99% of people came to the site. The […]

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Filed Under: Misc Tagged With: danfinnen.com 3.0, new site, welcome

Last night I saw ‘Trevor’ and remembered that I actually like theater

October 25, 2013 By Dan Finnen

With any form of art, it’s easy to get burned out by a stream of mediocrity. My former roommate and I had been on a mission to watch theater every week, and we went on a solid five week streak of shows that we could barely sit though. It was enough to make us question […]

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Filed Under: Theater, Writing Tagged With: a red orchid theatre, monkeys, trevor

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