2008

Aug

IMAP, Mail and the iPhone

I finally switched to IMAP for my main Gmail account on the occasion of getting an iPhone. I was...
Aug 21st

Capture NX - Why bother?

This quote from the Aperture User’s Network very much sums it up: Personally I don’t...
Aug 17th

Jun

Why Spaces will never work

In priniciple, Spaces is already superfluous. The real problem with Spaces is that hiding...
Jun 1st

Apr

Projects and albums in Aperture

The primary organisation of images in Aperture is via projects (and blue folders containing...
Apr 19th

Mar

Spaces - I don't get it

In Leopard, Apple introduced Spaces, a multiple desktop tool. So far, I have not been able to figure...
Mar 20th

After the dust has settled

After a week with Leopard surprisingly the machine seems to settle down (and I as well, I presume)....
Mar 9th

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...
Mar 4th

Not realizing your strong points

Macs had a really great Finder. Or at least they had one feature which made working in the Finder...
Mar 4th
What I am missing with Spotlight in Leopard: Quickly seeing...
Mar 3rd
How to make the Leopard Dock look more acceptable. Here is...
Mar 2nd

2007

Dec

svnX and file conflicts

svnX is an open source subversion client (svn) for Mac OS X. It requires the installation of the svn...
Dec 11th

Nov

'Replace all' droplet using Platypus

Using Platypus (http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus), a development tool for Mac OS X, all sorts of shell...
Nov 17th

Batch 'Replace all' Perl script

Copy the text below into a text file and save with the extension .pl. It expects the replacement...
Nov 5th

Aug

A Disappearing Desktop

Today, I was suddenly faced with a Desktop that had disappeared. Instead of being a representation...
Aug 13th

Jul

Rendering intents, soft proofing and...

Choosing different rendering intents allows to influence how images (and other elements) will be...
Jul 22nd
Rendering intent and soft proofing.
Jul 22nd

Jun

Latex & Elsevier - a few pitfalls

Submitting latex code to Elsevier online? Here are two issues I ran into: The pdf the website...
Jun 28th

Subversion and Samba

In short, never ever add an empty file to a subversion repository if you have working copies on a...
Jun 8th

May

What they forgot to tell you about CM

Every advice about color management starts with the declaration that without a calibrated screen...
May 25th

Things to find out about CM

About Aperture: - What is the internal color space of Aperture? Presumably something big (ie, maybe...
May 12th
Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog » Digital-Image Color...
May 12th

Apr

Official FAQ about the Huey
Apr 24th

Monitor brightness and the Huey

The way I understand things are that more expensive calibration software [than the Huey] allows one...
Apr 15th

Aperture - Levels, Exposure and Curves

The exposure slider in Aperture does pretty much the same as moving the right bottom sliders in...
Apr 14th