http://www.phrixus.co.uk Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:18:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the week-end, there were 2 announcements made that deserve a quick mention. Apple have upgraded Aperture to version 2.1 This is a quick update after the recent launch of version 2.0 and not only includes a number of bug fixes and performance updates but also adds a new plugin architecture. To ... http://www.phrixus.co.uk/posts/2008/04/software-updates-worth-noting I have seen a lot of information lately on various websites and in the photographic press about the Police and their ignorance when it comes to the rights of photographers and the law in general with regard to photography. I find it amazing that the officers of the law themselves have ... http://www.phrixus.co.uk/posts/2008/03/photographers-rights I was chatting with Damien a couple of days ago about Aperture and photography in general. One of his comments about Aperture referred to the loading notice you get whenever you switch view to a new image in the viewer. I have been playing with this and although it is ... http://www.phrixus.co.uk/posts/2008/03/apertures-quick-preview My copy of Aperture 2 arrived this week-end and it has been installed and the sample projects imported. I downloaded the demo about 2 minutes after it was released and not being one for impulse decisions, about 2 minutes later I decided that I will move my workflow from Lightroom to ... http://www.phrixus.co.uk/posts/2008/03/aperture-2-happy-at-home I just used Monolingual to recover nearly 4GB of space on my Macbook Pro's HDD. I am very tempted to try the option that removes the PPC elements as it seems to be quite safe. The application's FAQ says this; You can use Monolingual to remove non-Intel architectures for your installed ... http://www.phrixus.co.uk/posts/2008/02/macbook-pro-diet Phrixus.co.uk has just had quite a lot of updates over the last week. My theme has had a few adjustments to keep it up to date. There are more navigation options. The archives page has been rewritten. My very customised Gallery 1 installation is now gone and has been replaced by a more integrated ... http://www.phrixus.co.uk/posts/2008/02/new-updates I have now been able to ride a motorbike for a couple of months. In that time I have probably only covered about 100 miles due to the weather but I can feel my confidence and ability growing each time I go out. The Suzuki Bandit I am riding is ... http://www.phrixus.co.uk/posts/2008/01/2-wheel-update 2008 could be a very interesting year for me. It seems that everything that I am involved with is moving towards some kind of junction. If everything that I do has a big change applied, it is likely to shake up a few things here and there. I certainly feel ... http://www.phrixus.co.uk/posts/2008/01/2008-philosophical-outlook I am pleased to announce that my photography website, Encaptured Photography, has just been updated. Along with a minor update to the style, a lot of the code behind has been made more standards compliant. Along with this have come a few areas that need to be tweaked for various ... http://www.phrixus.co.uk/posts/2007/11/photography-update Just a few days after installing Leopard I have been going through my system and updating various bits of software. One of the apps I updated was MAMP, the excellent server I use for local testing. My document root is outside the main directory so I didn't think about the ... http://www.phrixus.co.uk/posts/2007/11/time-machine-saves-the-day