Neil Young has introduced his new album on his website for free. The interesting thing is it forces you to listen to it in its entirety—the actual website consists of two interacting swf file and a GIF used to track stats.
This way it won’t undercut sales of the CD or downloads when it is released [...]
I found this article about Aperture’s future in ThinkSecret.
Because of all the misconceptions in the MacRumors discussion of it, I decided to post the link without any commentary in order to encourage people to actually read the article.
In any case, the rumor and its assorted fallout has generated a lot of discussion in the photographic [...]
Up until this point, I read two articles concerning a 19 year old Harvard kid’s highly publicized first novel. I didn’t think much of it (on balance), until an article changed my mind.
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John Koontz has an interesting short commentary asking what convinced you to go digital?
This did:
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DxO Optics Pro has been upgraded to 3.55a as a free update.
Most of the new changes are cosmetic/UI changes:
New configurable “docked palette†mode for easy access to all adjustment tools;
Improved configuration wizard;
The “Automatic†mode of DxO Optics Pro is now easily and fully configurable thanks to a “Default preset”;
Option to save or not .dxo sidecar [...]
In order to get the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 (or Leica DIGILUX-2) to work in Aperture you first have to convert it to DNG using Adobe DNG Converter. Then you follow these directions which a commenter provides the trick.
Open “/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/\
Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/\
A/Resources/Raw.plist” as an administrator.
Search “DMC-LC1” and copy the chunk of XML in there
Replace the “DMC-LX1” with “DMC-LC1” [...]
The 17″ MacBook Pro was announced today at NAB for $2800.
Here is a small Aperture tip I forgot to mention.
I work on Aperture on two machines, my Powerbook G4 and my girlfriend’s PowerMac G5 when I can sneak in some time. One problem I ran into was finding that the keywords (and also various export settings) I have set up in Aperture are not carried [...]
Mark posts an whine about Mac Book Pro annoyances.
Now it is my time to harsh.
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I noticed on Gizmodo that the 30″ Dell LCD is out.
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