http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/25/update.runs.batches.preserves.color.profiles/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/jade2.0-story-25.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />DataMind Srl has launched Jade Plugin 2.0 for Apple's Aperture software. The plug-in automates color, contrast and dynamic range adjustments, while helping to detect and correct red eye in photographs. Jade is now a one-button operation -- the user loads photos in and then clicks a button to start. Version 2.0 offers manual control for those who wish to make fine adjustments.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/25/update.runs.batches.preserves.color.profiles/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/09/also.corrects.litany.of.lesser.known.bugs/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/snow.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has at last released Mac OS X 10.6.2, a key update to Snow Leopard. The patch addresses a variety of technical problems, most notably one which would permanently delete data when logging into a main account after having just used a guest one. The bug has been known since at least early October. Other resolved account problems include unexpected logouts, and difficulty authenticating as an... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/09/also.corrects.litany.of.lesser.known.bugs/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/06/new.version.has.51.different.designs/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/aperturethemes2.0-story-06.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Jumsoft has released Aperture Themes 2.0, a package of ten new themes for Apple's photography software. The new content adds to the six themes available in the previous v1.0 bundle. The styles are geared toward creating web galleries with photos via Aperture. Each of the 16 themes has up to ten different layouts for a total of 51 designs.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/06/new.version.has.51.different.designs/ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/23/leak.hints.at.product.name.change/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/aperture.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The next version of Aperture may be named Aperture X, an Amazon leak suggests. A book called Aperture X: A Workflow Guide for Digital Photographers has appeared at the Amazon website, credited to Ken McMahon and Nik Rawlinson, who previously wrote a guide for Aperture 2. The book's listing includes the warning "UNDER NDA," suggesting that it was meant to be kept hidden in a database.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/23/leak.hints.at.product.name.change/ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/25/hasselblad.h4d.50.and.h4d.60/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/hasselbladh4d.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Hasselblad chose Friday to unveil a long-in-progress upgrade to its H System medium format cameras. The H4D is billed as one of the first cameras to have a true off-center autofocus system, known as True Focus. Where even DSLRs often have to first focus and then reposition the camera to get focus significantly away from the center, the H4D has a yaw rate sensor that can detect the horizontal and... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/25/hasselblad.h4d.50.and.h4d.60/ Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/22/fraction.of.lightrooms.audience.says.adobe/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/aperture.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple's Aperture workflow software is losing significant traction with professional photographers, claims Adobe. Citing data gathered by the research firm InfoTrends, Adobe notes that in a 2009 survey, only 12.5 percent of photographers with Macs reported using Aperture for RAW files; by contrast, Adobe's Lightroom software was nearly four times as popular, at 44.4 percent. The figures represent... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/22/fraction.of.lightrooms.audience.says.adobe/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/10/aperture.gets.watermarking.plug.in.impression.10/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/impression1.0-story-10.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Blue Crowbar has launched a watermarking plug-in, Impression 1.0, for Aperture. Impression automates adding a visual watermark to photos, like a company logo, a signature or a copyright statement. The software provides a preview of what the watermark will look like on a given photo before exporting the final result. Impression supports vertical and horizontal watermarks and can adjust transparency... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/10/aperture.gets.watermarking.plug.in.impression.10/ Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/27/aperture.214.released/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0908/aperture.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has released v2.1.4 of its post-production photo utility, Aperture. The application is used to import, edit catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive images. The latest version fixes various issues involving import, web publishing, and the creation and ordering of books. The update addresses problems from the previous version that prevented the app from properly detecting and filterin... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/27/aperture.214.released/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/27/flickery.15.update.ships/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0908/flickery-ver1.5-27.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Eternal Storms has released flickery 1.5, its desktop flickr client for Mac OS X, featuring new video upload, download and playback. The software allows users to upload photos, and now video, to flickr from iPhoto or Aperture and organize the pictures into photosets or groups. flickery can also resize, crop, rotate and filter photos and it can view and search photos and videos from the flickr data... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/27/flickery.15.update.ships/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/27/v15.blue.crowbar.apps/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0907/BlueCrowbar.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Blue Crowbar has released v1.5 of its Twitter plug-ins, Aperture2Twitter and iPhoto2Twitter. The plug-ins are used to send tweets and photographs directly from Aperture or iPhoto. The new versions add support for posting videos and pictures to Mobypicture, which integrates with other websites including Flickr, Facebook, Tumblr, Blogger, WordPress, YouTube, and Vimeo.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/27/v15.blue.crowbar.apps/ Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:20:00 GMT