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Keywording in Aperture

So, finally, I’ve drawn together my thoughts about keywording in Aperture. My problem with keywording has always been more about “how can I make it easy enough that I will actually do it?”, rather than “what should the keywords be?”. I’ll explain my personal taste for both, though.
I was inspired to look again at […]


Posted
10 April 2008 @ 10pm

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MacBook Air, one month on

Someone emailed recently asking for an update on life with the MacBook Air. What can I say? It’s completely fantastic. Every time I pick it up, put it in my bag and walk to work, I know I made a good choice.
I used the MBA recently when I was shooting the second day […]


Posted
26 March 2008 @ 12pm

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McBarCamp, anyone?

So I had this crazy idea to host a BarCamp-style event in Scotland around Mac/iPhone development. A few bits and pieces clicked together, so I’ve put up a Google Docs survey to gather information about the level of interest in such an event.

Mac/iPhone Dev Scotland Event Survey

To expand a little on the content of […]


Posted
18 March 2008 @ 9pm

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MacBook Air Out of the Box

My wife told me that a “small package” was waiting for me at home. That could mean only one thing: the MacBook Air that I ordered on February 28th. I’ve purchased Revision-A Apple products before, but I’ve never, ever had to wait so long to receive one as I’ve waited for this machine.
I got […]


Aperture 2 In Use

Duncan Davidson posted his impressions of using Aperture 2 in serious production work. I also recently just completed my first shoot since Aperture 2 was released. I’ve been so crazy-busy on FlickrExport 3 and iPhone stuff that I’ve hardly picked up the camera since February.
I was doing some stage photography for our Passion […]


Posted
12 March 2008 @ 12pm

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Featured Comment: InfoWeek’s Response

I thought this one was too important to leave in the comments on my piece about Alexander Wolfe’s cynical and lazy blogging on the iPhone SDK.
David Dugan took the trouble to make a complaint to InfoWeek about the article. The full response is in his comment at the above link, but here’s a little dissection:
Alex […]


Late Night ImageKit

Bit late on this one, but an episode of Late Night Cocoa was recently published featuring me talking about Image Kit on Leopard.


Bampot of the Week: Alexander Wolfe

John Gruber has his occasional Jackass Of The Week award, for which Rob Enderle seems to be in line for a lifetime achievement award. I needed a more Scottish equivalent, so here is my Bampot1 of the week: Information Week’s Alexander Wolfe, for his overblown and incorrect piece about the iPhone SDK entitled “iPhone […]


Posted
6 March 2008 @ 4pm

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An analogy for RAM and HDD space

I doubt doubt many readers of this blog will struggle with confusing RAM capacity and Hard Disk capacity. Regardless, I offer this analogy that I use to explain the difference to my less-technical friends in the hope that it will help your less-technical friends understand it:

Think of RAM as your physical wooden-or-formica desktop. It has […]


Xcode: Unit Testing Built Products

Just wanted to share a little trick I recently developed for Xcode. I had a problem with FlickrExport 3: the Info.plist file was not being regenerated correctly when I built the target without cleaning it first. This problem only came to light when I started using preprocessing in the Info.plist to fill in the […]


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