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I’m getting closer to putting my two cents in on Aperture 3 and Apple clearly sensed this since it released an update to the software which resolves the following:

This update improves overall stability and addresses a number of issues in Aperture 3, including:

• Upgrading libraries from earlier versions of Aperture
• Importing libraries from iPhoto
• Importing photos directly from a camera
• Memory usage when processing heavily-retouched photos
• Face recognition processing
• Adding undetected faces using the Add Missing Face button
• Printing pages containing multiple images
• Printing photos and contact sheets with borders and metadata
• Editing photos using an external editor
• Display of images with Definition and Straighten adjustments applied
• Zooming photos in the Viewer and in the Loupe using keyboard shortcuts
• Accessing Aperture libraries on a network volume
• Selecting and moving pins on the Places map
• Adding and editing custom locations using the Manage My Places window
• Switching between masters when working with RAW+JPEG pairs.
  For detailed information on this update, please visit this website:http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2518

This appears to resolve most of the issues I’ve had with the software so far, but that’s just from reading this. I’m just getting ready to start using it.

Kudos to Apple though for only making this update a 32MB download. Some of us are still stuck on 1.5 Mbps DSL.

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Before I get started, I wish to make it clear that I’m not an official sponsor of the Olympics in any way, shape or form. I do not represent any athletes in any capacity.

With that said, the Olympic games are a joke and a massive pile of failure. And for once it has nothing to do with skating judges.

Let’s start with NBC’s coverage of the games. With events spread across its plethora of networks, it seemed like NBC had the resources and experience to bring an amazing show to the people on air and online.

And then NBC decided to treat it like an awards show and air some events live on the east coast in prime time while tape delaying them for the west coast. Never mind that Vancouver is in the Pacific time zone or anything.

But maybe, just maybe you want to watch them online. Well at 3:15 p.m. all I can find at the moment is curling. I enjoy watching curling but with a whole slew of sports going on or just possible places to stick a live Web cam, NBC went for the easiest sport to rack up hours of coverage for its bragging total.

Enough about NBC though, the International Olympics Committee has done a pretty good job themselves of screwing up how to use the Internet. Like the IOC saying it owns the rights to any video you shoot with your own camera. Or that companies can’t post tweets congratulating athletes or mentioning a medal count if they haven’t paid the piper.

Well it turns out those rings at the top of this post should probably get me hit with a massive lawsuit, which would be terrible. Of course the copyright on them expired in 2007, or 70 years past the death of the creator. I don’t see me hearing from the IOC any time soon.

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I could go on for hours about how ridiculous the Australian Attorney General’s claims are that gamers are more dangerous than bikers, or I could present you with the following:

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I’m not sure I’ll be taking the kids to the Olympics this year, especially if the mascot is that good ol’ Internet favorite, Pedobear. Maybe this perverted creature just photobombed the design of a Polish newspaper. Or perhaps the designer was trying to leave a subtle hint for the writer or editor of the piece. Whatever the circumstance, check twice before you raid Google Image Search for an idea.

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As is the case with any trade show, there were a plethora of cases and skins for the iPhone available. Personally the case I have from Casecrown works great for me and I’ve never felt the need to put a skin on anything, but some of the offerings this year from Uncommon caught my eye (above).

One company snagged my attention with the sheer unique nature and amazing creativity in its designs: GelaSkins. If I didn’t already have a case on my MacBook Pro, I would consider one of these awesome designs for my own machine.