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Archive for September, 2006 - click any heading for the full Article

30 Sep 2006

Aperture 1.5 - Part III

First experience suggests a meaningful improvement, with some touches of genius.
Sure enough, Apple released an updated OS (10.4.8) to support Aperture 1.5 and both were made available yesterday. Knowing I had a good back-up of my library on a separate LaCie hard disk drive, I downloaded and installed the upgrade.

The next screen informs the […]

29 Sep 2006

Aperture 1.5 - Part II

Upgrade time.
The Aperture 1.5 upgrade is almost here.
Here’s the list of updates for related software that Apple made available today:

What this means is that each one of the applications shown above will integate with Aperture 1.5 allowing export of pictures from Aperture to, say, Pages or iPhoto. Anyone who has used Pages, a superb […]

28 Sep 2006

Cameras and boat anchors

Kodak managed both in one go.
No, this is not another Kodak-bashing piece.
Quite the opposite.
My dear (honest!) mother-in-law is cleaning house and came across several cameras from the dark ages. A couple which needed a mechanic’s attention went to my nephew, the one with the micro-tool kit. The other two came my way for […]

27 Sep 2006

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