Monthly Archives: December 2005

Post Annoture Burrito

Posted on December 11, 2005 by Adam Tow

Celebrating the release of Annoture 0.9, Rae and I met up with Dardy at Los Charros Taqueria in Mountain View. Once again, I ordered my favorite dish there, a Super Wet Burrito with Carnitas and no cilantro! The carnitas was … Continue reading →

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Annoture Release

Posted on December 9, 2005 by Adam Tow

Introducing Annoture, a metadata bridging solution for Aperture and iView MediaPro! With Annoture, you’re just a click away from sharing metadata between these two popular image management and cataloguing applications. Spend more time working with your decisive moments than worrying … Continue reading →

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Annoture Feature Complete!

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Adam Tow

I love it when a plan comes together! Annoture is now successfully transferring annotations from iView to Aperture and back. I completed the last piece, Aperture to iView, just a few minutes ago, and it’s great to see things running … Continue reading →

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Annoture Progress

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Adam Tow

In honor of Paperture, I’ve changed the name of the program to Annoture. Earlier, I discovered Apple was handling exporting IPTC information in an old manner. This unfortunately took out a couple of hours to figure out, time which I … Continue reading →

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Flattened ITPC Fields by Aperture

Posted on December 7, 2005 by Adam Tow

Aperture’s metadata exporting routines need a little more work. Aperture seems to flatten into a single string IPTC fields that can hold multiple values such as Keywords, Supplemental Categories, and Contacts — Keywords, Categories and People in iView terms — … Continue reading →

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Aperture and SQLite

Posted on December 6, 2005 by Adam Tow

In my previous post, I wrote that there was no way in AppleScript to get the original filename of a version. Because Aperture uses SQLite to store information about the Library, however, there is a way to access this information! … Continue reading →

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Annotation Copier Beta Testers

Posted on December 6, 2005 by Adam Tow

Annotation Copier is the tentative name for this application that I’m now ready to seed to a select group of beta testers. Currently, the app transfers annotations from iView to Aperture. A future version of the program will allow you … Continue reading →

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Scripting iView Media Pro and Aperture

Posted on December 4, 2005 by Adam Tow

Still slaving away on this application to transfer annotations between iView MediaPro and Aperture. I am still running version 2.6.4 of iView, having decided to hold off on the upgrade to iView 3.0 for the moment. I discovered today that … Continue reading →

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Aperture Tidbits

Posted on December 2, 2005 by Adam Tow

Some assorted Aperture tidbits: The Library entry in the Projects Pane is really a folder called ” Built-in Smart Albums”. Adding a new folder with a name ahead of this entry, such as ” An Album Ahead” does not place … Continue reading →

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Aperture and Noise Ninja

Posted on December 1, 2005 by Adam Tow

At first glance, I think NoiseNinja will remain in my toolbox. The results from Aperture’s noise reduction tools are like butter knives compared to the razor-sharp blades that PictureCode’s software uses to carve up noise. Photoshop CS and CaptureOne all … Continue reading →

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