Monthly Archives: October 2006

Timeature 1.0.1 RC 1 Released!

Posted on October 18, 2006 by Adam Tow

Hot on the heels of the Timeature 1.0 release comes 1.0.1 Release Candidate 1. This version adds the following improvements to the application: Image Dates persist after Aperture Library Rebuild Added EXIF date adjustment Date Picker valid range is now … Continue reading →

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Timeature 1.0 Released!

Posted on October 16, 2006 by Adam Tow

I’m pleased to announce the availability of Timeature 1.0! With Timeature, you can easily adjust the Image Date field of images imported in Aperture! The correct Image Date ensures that your photos are sorted properly within Aperture. This field is … Continue reading →

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Low-Key Hillclimbs #1: Montebello Road

Posted on October 14, 2006 by Adam Tow

Today’s inaugural Low-Key Hillclimb ride took us up Montebello Road. I had ridden the climb three days prior with my former co-worker, Jorge. There were a little over 50 riders, and the vast majority of them looked really good. I … Continue reading →

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Timeature

Posted on October 13, 2006 by Adam Tow

I sense a pattern with these application names. Timeature is coming right up on the heels of the impending Annoture 1.0 release. In the Aperture discussion forums, I’ve been tracking a growing need for users to be able to edit … Continue reading →

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Yunus wins peace Nobel

Posted on October 13, 2006 by Adam Tow

Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize today. Yunus is the founder of Grameen Bank, the first lender of microcredits. Starting in Bangladesh in 1983, Grameen Bank “has lent $5.72 billion to more than 6 million Bangladeshis.” Khalid … Continue reading →

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Aperture ImageDate Format

Posted on October 13, 2006 by Adam Tow

My investigations of Aperture’s internals continue with a question from John: There’s no way in Aperture to change the image date value Aperture stores in its database. We know it doesn’t have to be the same as the embedded image … Continue reading →

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AppleScript stringWithFormat

Posted on October 12, 2006 by Adam Tow

The task today for Annoture is localization. I’ve been looking far and wide across the Internet for an AppleScript equivalent to Cocoa’s stringWithFormat method to no avail. The lack of such a native function makes localizing an AppleScript Studio application … Continue reading →

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Montebello Road

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Adam Tow

If you’re on the West Coast, by the time you’ve read this entry, Jorge and I will have climbed Montebello Road. I’m doing this to gauge my fitness level before Saturday’s possible ascent up the road for the inaugural Low-Key … Continue reading →

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Your Five Best Photos and Digital Rebel XTi

Posted on October 5, 2006 by Adam Tow

The October 2006 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held this Wednesday, October 11, 2006 in Cordura Hall 100 at Stanford University from 7:30-10:00 pm. Photokina Wrapup Photokina 2006 is in the … Continue reading →

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Low-Key Hillclimbs are back!

Posted on October 4, 2006 by Adam Tow

The Bay Area Low-Key Hillclimbs are back! The first ascent will be up Montebello road, a climb that I’m very familiar with. I’m somewhat apprehensive about all of this, mainly because I’m about 10 pounds over my normal climbing weight. … Continue reading →

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