Category Archives: Aperture

All thoughts related to Apple’s new pro digital photography tool.

Annoture 1.0.3

Posted on January 4, 2007 by Adam Tow

A bug was discovered in Annoture’s Aperture to iView annotation process yesterday. I’ve released a quick update to Annoture which resolves this issue. All users of 1.0.2 will be notified of the update the next time they launch the application.

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Annoture 1.0.2 Released

Posted on January 1, 2007 by Adam Tow

Happy New Year everyone! Annoture 1.0.2 has been released. This is a recommended update for all Annoture users. It has numerous bug fixes in the file comparison routines over the previous version of Annoture. In addition, the application will now … Continue reading →

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Theory on Aperture Slowdown

Posted on November 8, 2006 by Adam Tow

Under the hood, Aperture stores information on an image in two places. The first is in a SQLite3 database, and the second is in an assortment of plist files. One would venture that this approach is used for data redundancy … Continue reading →

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Unable to open database error?

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Adam Tow

An Annoture user can’t run the application because the Aperture SQLite3 database can not be opened. He’s getting the error from the program and from the command line when manually trying to access the database. Unable to open database file … Continue reading →

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AppleScript System Events Slowness

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Adam Tow

In Timeature, I have the app tell Aperture to switch to the Library via AppleScript. What should be a very fast operation turns out to be glacially slow. Any AppleScript wizards care to explain why this is the case? Here’s … Continue reading →

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Annoture 1.0.1 and Timeature 1.0.2

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Adam Tow

I need to fire myself and hire a real QA team. A couple of international users discovered a problem related to number formats and localization in Timeature and Annoture. Since both apps share some of the same codebase, I had … Continue reading →

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Annoture 1.0 Released!

Posted on October 24, 2006 by Adam Tow

I’m happy to announce that Annoture 1.0 has been released! It’s taken me a little longer than I expected to get it out, but I think it will be worth the wait. Users of iView MediaPro and Aperture who need … Continue reading →

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Timeature 1.0.1 Updated

Posted on October 24, 2006 by Adam Tow

I updated Release Candidate 1 of Timeature to full release status. One change was made in the application to overcome a bug discovered in a SQL statement call by Timeature.

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Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!

Posted on October 18, 2006 by Adam Tow

Bugs are the bane of any software developer’s life. Many of us would much rather focus on adding new functionality than fixing things that are broken. It’s sad truth in engineering that a vast majority of time is often spent … Continue reading →

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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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