It seems as though the minimum system requirements are still in force in Aperture 1.5, which means that although 1.25GHz PowerBooks are supported, my dual 867GHz MDD isn’t, which is rather odd. Still, the hack for Aperture 1.1 still works on 1.5, but the offsets have (unsurprisingly) moved a little. Using a hex editor (I [...]
Tech Zendo » Blog Archive » OS X: How To Perform an Action During Fast User Switch: http://www.radiotope.com/writing/?p=71 How to write a configd kicker script to enable event driven actions on OS X [via AFP548.com]
I’ve not done much flash work as I never really liked the look it gave the subject when I first tried it, but that was on film (20+ years ago) and I simply couldn’t afford the trial and error learning process. Digital is far better for this sort of experimentation and there’s a couple of [...]
Being a total Aperture convert, I’ve been amusing (?) myself over the summer trying to get 18,000 or so photos into something like a useable state, but being scattered over 4 hard drives and two computers (with no one drive having enough space for them all, of course) has been an exercise in watching progress [...]
The Observer | Food monthly | If MSG is so bad for you, why doesn’t everyone in Asia have a headache?: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/story/0,,1522368,00.html Going by my previous metric of ‘If I’ve emailed a link to two people, I should have blogged it’, here’s a fascinating mini-history of MSG and umami together with a Top 19 of [...]
Suffolk Restaurants – The Round House Restaurant: http://www.allenby.co.uk/index.html Found at the side of the A12 on Saturday quite by accident whilst camping near the Suffolk coast with friends, where I had an excellent lunch, was impressed with the tone of the menu and the attitude of the staff and the only possible point to note [...]