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The Adobe Blog writes: Apple's Aperture News. In it, Jeffrey Tranberry says "We're looking into a way for Aperture customers to more easily migrate to Lightroom." The current solution, frankly, sucks:

We’re working on a way for iPhoto and Aperture customers to more easily migrate to Lightroom. As of right now, your best bet is to save any metadata to your files, then import the files directly from disk. (Note: Aperture develop settings aren’t compatible. If you want to preserve the look of your image edits, export rendered versions of your files from Aperture to import to Lightroom).

This article was also linked at John Beardsworth's "Lightroom Solutions."

I'm going to hold off for a bit, but it is still very sad to me that Aperture is done, dead, deceased. 🙁

P.S. Apple Stops Development of Aperture - Good stuff there too about relying on Apple with our data. 🙁 Other good pieces: Aperture is Dead. Long Live Photos! and Comment Follow-up on the Demise of Aperture.

The Gunfighter from Eric Kissack on Vimeo.

Avoiding “Sagan Syndrome.” Why Astronomers and Journalists should pay heed to Biologists about ET.

But perhaps some perspective shifts will allow us to restore the Copernican Principle to its rightful place. Recall from my previous post how we have three wildly disparate time scales in play: millions, billions and trillions. Rounding to the nearest 20, we have:

1. Time for intelligent life to fill a galaxy: super short 20 million years
2. Time for intelligent life to evolve in a galaxy: moderate 20 billion years
3. Time of universe to keep having stars: super long 20 trillion years

The first perspective shift is to step back in time, and realize the universe is very young. With 20 trillion years of star generation ahead, the universe has only covered 13.7 billion years or roughly .07% of its life span. Compare this to a person who expects to live 70 years, and you’d get .07% * 70 years = roughly 18 days. So in human terms the universe is a three week old baby. No wonder there’s not too much life out there yet.

I used to make fun of those huge phones I'd see people carrying from Samsung or whomever.

I sincerely hope that Apple doesn't make the mistake of putting "The Good Stuff™" in just the largest phone ((Better camera, faster processors, upgraded fingerprint stuff, whatever….)), because I don't know that I'll want a huge freakin' iPhone. 4.7" seems plenty large enough, and I don't particularly mind 4".

A hue angle of 270 degrees, a saturation of 50% and a lightness of 40%

Eric Meyer is an expert on the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) system used to control the appearance of web documents. He's the author of multiple books on CSS, and the "chaperone" of the css-discuss mailing list. His daughter, Rebecca, passed away, and her family asked that those attending memorial services wear purple, her favorite color. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux requested that a purple be added to the CSS color list be named "Becca Purple" in her memory. Eric suggested that it be named rebeccapurple because his daughter wanted everyone to call her Rebecca after she turned six, and she was six for almost twelve hours. Today, a co-chair of the CSS Working Group announced approval of the change. From now on, rebeccapurple means #663399.

From Mike Ash, Interesting Swift Features.

Holy crap.

To be clear, iOS 8 will expose just about every manual camera control possible. This means that ISO, shutter speed, focus, white balance, and exposure bias can be manually set within a custom camera application. Outside of these manual controls, Apple has also added gray card functionality to bypass the auto white balance mechanism and both EV bracketing and shutter speed/ISO bracketing.

Hilarious.

frozenfan56. Heh.

Pencil / Surface Pressure from FiftyThree on Vimeo.

Michael Tsai - Blog - The SSD Endurance Experiment

The takeaway: they all lasted longer than stated.

I still have no idea what BitCoin is or how it works, but this doesn't sound good either: It's Time For a Hard Bitcoin Fork.

Uh, okay.

Daring Fireball: Only Apple

The takeaway, IMO:

Tim Cook is improving Apple’s internal operational efficiency.

The Power of iOS 8 – Ole Begemann

1. Go back to the home screen and launch 1Password.
2. Enter your 1Password master password.
3. Locate the web siteʼs credentials in the 1Password database. I have several hundred logins stored in 1Password, so this can require quite a bit of manual browsing or using the built-in search, which is tedious on a mobile device.
4. Copy your password to the pasteboard. And while youʼre at it, if the web site requires you to enter a user name (as opposed to your email address), make sure to remember it now or you will have to switch back and forth twice between Safari and 1Password. The pasteboard only accepts one item at a time.
5. Go back to Safari.
6. Manually enter your user name/email address and paste your password.

This sucks.

I agree.

Michael Tsai - Blog - iOS 8 MAC Address Randomization

I'm pretty sure my friend Aaron Linville had a bit to do with that in an earlier version of Mac OS X…

Also, "While Using" is quite cool. I'll be enabling that for almost everything except perhaps To Dos (the geofenced variety will need to know when I've arrived home, at work, etc.).

Suck it, England.

(Filler post, heh heh heh.)