Following on from the first part in this write-up, here's what I did to get my images from Aperture into Lightroom. This is a fairly manual process, there's no magic involved that makes anything easy, you will have a fair...
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Our thinking
Migrating from Aperture to Lightroom
Aperture really isn't getting shown much love by Apple. It lags behind even iPhoto in some regards and with large image libraries, even on decent hardware, it seems quite slow. I really don't think it's going to be getting much...
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Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas to everyone. Thank you for your support this year. Here's looking forward to 2011.
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Remote root (?) exploit in Retrospect 8 for Mac OS X
So, you have to cut Retrospect a little slack, it's been passed around like a hot potato recently and has just found a home at Roxio now that EMC have washed their hands of it. The interface for the new...
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Crazy ridiculous safety saw can detect fingers and shut off @Makezine.com blog
This is some incredible engineering - stopping a circular saw blade spinning at 5k RPM quick enough that if you put your finger on the spinning blade, all you feel is something like an insect bite. Crazy ridiculous safety saw...
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Automatica v2
The redesign for this website is almost complete. The pages look similar to the old version however the entire site (rather than just the blog section) is now produced with Wordpress. The new site layout is based on the old...
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Ever seen a pwned home router?
I had to go and sort out a client the other day as their router (a Bigpond branded Netcomm unit for a home NextG connection) had, somehow, been compromised and dodgy DNS server addresses were being handed out via DHCP....
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Fix EFI Fiery E10 Driver on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
I've had all sorts of issues installing the Fiery E10 driver (installed in a KM Copier) to work under 10.6 - after installing it, the Printer preference pane would have a yellow warning triangle and when you opened the printer...
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Apple kills the Xserve?!?
Whisky Tango Foxtrot. Apple has announced that they are discontinuing the Xserve hardware platform. I know that they're selling a lot more Mac mini Servers, and that the Mac Pro is currently (in some aspects) a more powerful hardware platform,...
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Blinking Light on Brand-new Xserve
I've set up a few brand-new Xserves lately and two of them wouldn't stop blinking their System Identifier light. The System Identifier light would blink rapidly four times with a short pause and then repeat. Normally this happens if you...
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