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Check out this amazing commercial for pedigree, shot at 1000 frames per second on the Phantom.

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

Many people seem to be having some serious stability issues with Aperture 3, and while I did initially, it seems to be fine now. I’ve been running it for the last few days and it hasn’t crashed on me once. I’m not sure what, if anything I did – but in the interests of those with issues here are a few things I did that you might want to try.

Well, this is quite a surprise for a monday morning. It seems I’ve been nominated for an Irish Blog Award. I wasn’t expecting that at all! A big thanks to whoever nominated me, and thanks to all my readers for your continued viewership. Wow, I’m chuffed !