Apple Releases Aperture 2.0 Upgrade

Apple has just released a major upgrade to its pro­fes­sional photo soft­ware, Aper­ture. The new ver­sion comes with more than 100 improve­ments cov­er­ing user inter­face, RAW image qual­ity, com­pare and select tools, image pro­cess­ing tools, photo man­age­ment, print and web pub­lish­ing, work­flow, and Apple­Script. [Read more]

Apple Releases an Update for its Pro Applications

Apple has just released the ProKit 4.5 update to its line of pro­fes­sional appli­ca­tions. The update is avail­able through the Mac OS Soft­ware Update util­ity, or it can be down­loaded directly from Apple at: [Read more]

Zenfolio Online Photo Sharing Review

Zen­fo­lio is an online photo shar­ing ser­vice sim­i­lar to Flickr, Smug­mug, Fotki, Expo­sure Man­ager, and many others. What dis­tin­guishes it is the ele­gance of its inter­face, easy of use, and superb cus­tomer ser­vice. I’ve been using it for almost a year and thought it would be useful to share my expe­ri­ence with others. This is not intended to be an exhaus­tive review, nor a com­par­i­son with other ser­vices. It’s rather a col­lec­tion of obser­va­tions from one user point of view.

Photo hosts pro­vide a ser­vice that falls in the gen­eral cat­e­gory of “photo shar­ing,” the pub­lish­ing or trans­fer of dig­i­tal photos (and/or videos) online for dis­play, down­load­ing, print­ing, etc. [Read more]

Asteroid 2007 TU24 Visible on January 29, 2008

In what will be the clos­est approach by an object of com­pa­ra­ble size or larger until 2027, the aster­oid 2007 TU24 is an oppor­tu­nity for ama­teurs equipped with modest tele­scopes to observe a unique celes­tial event. A tele­scope of 3 inches or larger aper­ture is rec­om­mended (the Hubble, depicted, is optional).
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