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Interesting article from Glenn Fleishman on Flash and the iPhone. Of particular interest is his point that Flash is unavailable on many other smartphone platforms and yet Adobe only loudly complains about the iPhone. It’s a good read.

Slashdot links to an article by some android developer who claims that Android is actually a better development platform because it has Java. The idea of Java being a superior development environment than cocoa is bed enough, but the best bit comes from this statement:

While iPhone developers have found that one path to success is playing to our baser instincts (until Apple shuts them down), a number of Android applications are offering practical solutions that unlock the power of a phone that’s really a Unix machine you can slip into your pocket

I’ve discovered a possible cause and solution to some of the speed issues people are having with Aperture. You can read about it on this post over at my new Aperture blog, called, funnily enough, “The Aperture Blog”.

I just had a tense few minutes a short while ago when I thought I’d lost the firewire 800 port on my iMac. I had pulled the computer towards me to plug back in the second monitor. When I did so it pulled the Firewire 800 cable out. There was a brief moment of worry as I the three drives I have connected to it disappeared off my desktop. That worry turned to panic when I couldn’t get them to reappear. I tried rebooting. I tried changing cables. You name it I tried it. I was beginning to think I might have done damage to the drives, but then it occurred to me to try a 400 to 800 cable. That worked so at least I knew my drives were ok. The problem was though, nothing would work with my Firewire 800 port.

I’ve started a new blog dedicated to Apple’s Aperture. I’ve been posting a lot about Aperture lately, and rather than have this taken over by the subject, I’ve set up a separate blog for it. Please check it out and leave feedback. I’ve also set up a separate twitter account for it too, so please follow that as well if you want!

Macworld UK leads with the headline “Apple broke labour laws with underage workers report finds“. Of course anyone who has been following this story knows that this is completely bogus. The body of the article is a little more like the actual facts:

“Apple has revealed in a new report suppliers broke local laws, employing children at three different facilities…”

Hot on the heels of Aperture 3 and 3.0.1 comes another Photo related update from Apple adding support for another bunch of Cameras. Of particular note (due to it’s absence from Aperture 3) is the popular Panasonic GF1.

Fresh off the digital presses, Aperture 3.01 has been released which hopefully will address a lot of the issues people were having. From the accompanying support document, the problems addressed are:

1. Upgrading libraries from earlier versions of Aperture
2. Importing libraries from iPhoto
3. Importing photos directly from a camera
4. Memory usage when processing heavily-retouched photos
5. Face recognition processing
6. Adding undetected faces using the Add Missing Face button
7. Printing pages containing multiple images
8. Printing photos and contact sheets with borders and metadata
9. Editing photos using an external editor
10. Display of images with Definition and Straighten adjustments applied