Even though I’m preferring Apple Aperture over iPhoto to post-process my RAW format photos, the new “Faces” feature in iPhoto ’09 (part of iLife ’09) sounded interesting enough to me to give iPhoto another try. To get some photos in iPhoto without having to duplicate them, I set it up to reference Aperture preview JPEGs in iPhoto’s preferences instead of copying them to the iPhoto library. The preset for Aperture preview JPEGs is 1/2 size of the original photo. Now I’m able to reference Aperture projects by dragging them to iPhoto using the Show Aperture Library menu in iPhoto’s File menu.  Read more »

My favorite GPS datalogger management application has received a major user interface overhaul. What a difference it makes!

Old BT747 user interface.

New BT7474 user interface.

The new user interface can be started using Java Web Start. Head over to BT747.free.fr and click on Install desktop version. Read more »