Aperture 3 – The Late Review

Aperture 3 was released just about 3 months ago. I picked up my copy on the first day (paying for a digital copy via an electronic purchase). And immediately, I started working on a review.

Why am I about 2 months and 3 weeks late in posting this? Well, I could blame the amount of time taken to upgrade my library but the truth is, I had extremely mixed feelings about Aperture 3. My review was written, deleted, rewritten and now rewritten again. I think I’m finally onto something here.

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Software Updates … plenty to go

Together with the updates to the Mac hardwares, there was a bunch of software updates for both your Mac hardwares and softwares. Here are the whole lot:

As usual, you can check for Software Updates via the Apple menu on the top left of your screen or grab the downloads from Apple Support page.

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NewsBits – iTunes Plus, Maps and Faces in iPhoto and HD video Web service

Did you know Faces can identify your pets? Which HD video Web service is the best? Trying to zoom in Maps in iPhoto and Upgrading your tunes to DRM-FREE? Now you have the choice.

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Macworld 2009 – Looking at iLife’09

Apple updated their iLife and iWork application suits to give affordable but robust tools for consumers to use. Are they worth the money? Here’s a quick look at the new features of iLife’09.

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Disk space hoarder – iPhoto

If you are a heavy iPhoto user and suddenly find that your once huge hard disk is straining for space for no apparent reason, do check the Trash within iPhoto. As posted in this Mac User article by Scott McNulty, iPhoto has a knack for keeping your photos safely stored on your hard disk, even if you had trash them away.

Image from Mac User siteDeleted pictures are…well…deleted, aren’t they? Aha! Not in iPhoto: You see, iPhoto is a paranoid application. It knows (or at least the programming team behind iPhoto knows) that digital pictures are very important pieces of data. Mistakenly deleting that once-in-a-lifetime shot isn’t something iPhoto wants to take the blame for. That’s why when you hit delete in iPhoto the offending picture isn’t actually deleted. Instead, it is whisked away to the iPhoto Trash (pictured to the right). This digital waste bin will hold your cast-off pictures until you go to the effort of emptying iPhoto’s Trash.

The good thing about this is that you can always look through your Trash one more time before you finally delete those photos for good. Personally, I will keep all photos taken, unless they are really bad – no focus, no subject, totally over or under exposed. But that’s just me.

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