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 […]
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.
John Koontz has an interesting short commentary asking what convinced you to go digital? This did:
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 […]
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 […]
The 17″ MacBook Pro was announced today at NAB for $2800. It has the following differences from the high-end 15.4″ MacBook Pro ($2500 retail): 17″ 1680×1050 display vs. 15.4″ 1440×900 display (my current 1.5Ghz Powerbook G4 is a 17″ 1440×900 display). Firewire 800 an extra USB port 8x dual layer SuperDrive instead of a 4x […]
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 […]
Mark posts an whine about Mac Book Pro annoyances. Now it is my time to harsh.
I noticed on Gizmodo that the 30″ Dell LCD is out.
Until today, I had no idea who Natalee Holloway is. According to an old Kuro5hin article, this means I live in a cave.