IMAP, Mail and the iPhone

I finally switched to IMAP for my main Gmail account on the occasion of getting an iPhone. I was...

Capture NX - Why bother?

This quote from the Aperture User’s Network very much sums it up: Personally I don’t...

Why Spaces will never work

In priniciple, Spaces is already superfluous. The real problem with Spaces is that hiding...

Projects and albums in Aperture

The primary organisation of images in Aperture is via projects (and blue folders containing...

Spaces - I don't get it

In Leopard, Apple introduced Spaces, a multiple desktop tool. So far, I have not been able to figure...

After the dust has settled

After a week with Leopard surprisingly the machine seems to settle down (and I as well, I presume)....

Don't, really don't

Do not upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5, at least not now, unless you have really nothing else to do. Wait...

Not realizing your strong points

Macs had a really great Finder. Or at least they had one feature which made working in the Finder...

What I am missing with Spotlight in Leopard: Quickly seeing...

How to make the Leopard Dock look more acceptable. Here is...

svnX and file conflicts

svnX is an open source subversion client (svn) for Mac OS X. It requires the installation of the svn...

'Replace all' droplet using Platypus

Using Platypus (http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus), a development tool for Mac OS X, all sorts of shell...

Batch 'Replace all' Perl script

Copy the text below into a text file and save with the extension .pl. It expects the replacement...

A Disappearing Desktop

Today, I was suddenly faced with a Desktop that had disappeared. Instead of being a representation...

Rendering intents, soft proofing and...

Choosing different rendering intents allows to influence how images (and other elements) will be...

Rendering intent and soft proofing.

Latex & Elsevier - a few pitfalls

Submitting latex code to Elsevier online? Here are two issues I ran into: The pdf the website...

Subversion and Samba

In short, never ever add an empty file to a subversion repository if you have working copies on a...

What they forgot to tell you about CM

Every advice about color management starts with the declaration that without a calibrated screen...

Things to find out about CM

About Aperture: - What is the internal color space of Aperture? Presumably something big (ie, maybe...

Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog » Digital-Image Color...

Official FAQ about the Huey

Monitor brightness and the Huey

The way I understand things are that more expensive calibration software [than the Huey] allows one...

Aperture - Levels, Exposure and Curves

The exposure slider in Aperture does pretty much the same as moving the right bottom sliders in...