For pros who just want to get work done, Aperture 3’s improved interface, flawless curve adjustment, multiple maskable edits, and 64-bit update are more than enough reason to upgrade. Add the metadata improvements and the high-ISO RAW conversion, and you have an essential upgrade. If Apple can rein in the glitches, give pros a toggle for the gooey effects, and polish the masking tools, then the rest is just gravy.
Category: Apple
‘Pick From This List of Things To Do’
I spent the whole day playing with a stack of Apple ][+, //e, and Enhanced //e machines, testing a stack of 80-column cards and memory expansions and fifteen Disk ][ drives and an Applied Engineering Music Synthesizer card, and the whole time I was using and/or abusing that old Apple hardware (several times I had to pull out the old “Programmer’s Reference” and call stuff from the Monitor ROM because I wasn’t sure what I was doing) I had one thought: “Apple would never allow me to do any of this anymore, if they had their way.”
‘Curated Computing’
Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps:
The iPad creates a use case for a device that doesn’t do everything your laptop does, targeted at a consumer that uses devices more for consumption than production. The iPad ushers in a new era of personal computing that we call “Curated Computing”—a mode of computing where choice is constrained to deliver less complex, more relevant experiences. Let me repeat that, because it’s the essence of the Curated Computing experience: less choice; more relevance.
Finally, Gawker Publishes Something Worth Reading
Valleywag editor Ryan Tate, irked by an iPad ad, drunkmailed Apple CEO Steve Jobs just after 9:30 last night. To Tate’s shock and delight, Jobs argued back and forth with him until 2:20 AM in four rounds of messages, reproduced below.
Hit the link to read the emails. They’re pretty great. Once again, a Gawker employee looks like a total ass.
Next-gen iPhone Documents Unsealed
CNET:
Brian Hogan, a 21-year-old Redwood City, Calif., resident, found the phone in a bar. But the affidavit prepared by detective Matthew Broad in the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office reveals that an important tip came when Hogan’s roommate, Katherine Martinson, called Apple on April 21 to let them know that he had examined it and sent photographs to back up her claim.
Hogan told her that Gizmodo had offered him $10,000 for the phone, and showed her a camera box containing $5,000 in $100 bills, according to the affidavit. It says: “Martinson said Hogan also told her that he will receive a cash bonus from Gizmodo.com in July, if and when Apple makes an official product announcement regarding the new iPhone.”
Apple Pimps CS5
See, Apple loves Adobe, too. Right? Right…?
New iPad Ad Seems Familiar
Apple started airing a new iPad ad tonight called “What is iPad?”. The Ad seems to be a departure from their recent ads with a bit of a gruff narrator walking through what the iPad is. However, it struck me as strangely familiar and I realized that Apple had reincarnated one of the original Apple Newton ads called “What is Newton?” from almost 20 years ago.
It’s eerie.
MobileMe Webmail Beta Announced
Today we’re introducing the beta of an all new MobileMe Mail web application, and we’re asking you to try it and let us know what you think. You can sign up at me.com by just logging in to MobileMe Mail and clicking “Request an invitation.” You will receive an email notification when you have been added to the beta and can start using it.
Betas are an unusual thing for Apple. The changes outlined in that blog post look fantastic, though. MobileMe’s webapps are already pretty good, but lack some of the features of other services — mainly Gmail.
Adobe Loves Apple
These ads have popped up today all over the place, along with these letters from Adobe’s founders.
Obvisouly, this whole Adobe/Apple thing isn’t over yet.
Panic Runs Apple IIe Video from iPad
A stunning, yet surreal use of technology. I loved this video when it came out in 2005, and it was great to see it again.
C4 Conference Canceled
C4 was billed as a Mac indie conference, but at its core C4 was a computer science conference.
I believed the best way to move software forward was to inform Apple programmers about better ways to build software — to infect the best top-downer minds with fertile discontent.
My hope was that developers would care primarily about user experience yet also be passionate about utilizing lingual and tooling advances.
Another Next-Gen iPhone Ripped Apart
The kids at Taoviet have really outdone themselves. From the looks of these images, the Vietnamese site has nabbed an honest to goodness 4th generation iPhone – a 16GB model to be exact. It’s clearly pre-production judging by the XXX placeholders on the backside stamp and likely lacks any OS other than a “Bonfire” test routine. Nevertheless, it looks authentic enough that we expect Apple’s henchmen to be busting down the guy’s door before he pries it open to reveal Apple’s chipset of choice.