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aperture 1.5.1 hack

It’s update time, which means hacking the minimum requirements again. More details on how to actually change the numbers are in the Aperture 1.5 post and comments, but…

View Flickr Photos in Google Earth

View Flickr Photos in Google Earth: http://kmlphotos.metaltoad.com/ Now that is a great timewaster, although given my new-found amazement at just how close Cairo and Luxor city boundaries are…

aperture 1.5 chroma blur: pros and cons

Aperture seems to have a pretty good set of defaults in the main – it certainly doesn’t get in my way for simple things, but recently I’d been…

mac photoshop elements 3 crashes on startup: a possible fix

For about 3 months now I’ve not been able to use {Photoshop Elements} 3 for no reason that I could find. I tried erasing preference files, repairing permissions,…

ginger bread

This is a Ginger Bread, and not Gingerbread (not that I’d try to confuse anyone intentionally of course…) 1/2 tsp Yeast 200g Strong White flour 200g Strong Brown…

aperture 1.5 colour tool

I am completely obsessed with the colour tool in the latest point release of {Aperture}, but it’s got to the point where I’m not sure if I like…

orange and cranberry bread

I’ve got a new favourite – it’s s slightly modified version of the Orange loaf from page 25 and smells amazing once made. I’m not sure what I…

aperture 1.5 hack

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,…

Tech Zendo > Blog Archive > OS X: How To Perform an Action During Fast User Switch

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…

why not to delete blurred photos

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…

The Observer | Food monthly | If MSG is so bad for you, why doesn’t everyone in Asia have a headache?

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…

Suffolk Restaurants – The Round House Restaurant

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,…

four free aperture themes

Update 07nov06: Note that the download here is only for Aperture versions up to (and including) 1.1.2 The location of the themes is different for Aperture 1.5, so…

aperture iptc autocomplete

If you are using {Aperture} and are going through a large collection of older images it’s very nice being able to add IPTC Copyright entries during import. The…

minimalist gallery

After far too long leaving my gallery languishing, it’s now been reborn in a very bare fashion: using (at the moment) {Lightroom} to caption and edit, and the…