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Aperture 3 migration tips

Being quite geek I'm one of those early adopter guys. So wonder what? I've migrated my Aperture 2 library to just released Aperture 3. You may wonder why wouldn't I use Lightroom, but well, I just like Apreture's workflow + look and feel a bit more. That's it. Also faces and locations in Aperture 3 (apparently migrated from iPhoto) are just killer features comparing to Lightroom.

Migration was quite easy but it took quite a time to rebuild the Aperture's database to a new version. You can migrate from previous library, old vault or my way was to save (export) projects from v.2 to external drive and import them in v.3 one by one afterwards. This also helped me to clean up some older projects which were on standby for quite a long time.

Submitted by Andrey on Fri, 2010-02-12 00:27
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7 tips to power up MAMP on OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

First off I don't really like to go with extra apps on my Mac. So with Leopard I'd use (mark's) PHP (as 10.5.x didn't have GD support at least) and official MySQL distribution. With Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) Apple did a great job rolling out quite a nice http server but to the date it's way too advanced for my normal dev life. None of the web apps I do develop with (Druapl, ExpressionEngine, Joomla, WP ... ) are ready for PHP 5.3 yet. So the only choice was downgrade.

I've tried a few ways as MacProts, compiling my own PHP (and libs) but that was not even 90% successful or buggy. So I looked to MAMP again. Here are a few tips to get MAMP running nicely at OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard):

Submitted by Andrey on Wed, 2009-09-16 17:21
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Installing minimal #!CrunchBang linux on old Sony laptop

The 8 years old notebook (Vaio R505TLK) desperately needed some system refresh. The original Windows 2000 was more or less fine but up to date it become cluttered and quite unstable. I do have some sentimental feelings for the thing as it was working for me for quite a long time and helped to learn and achieve a lot. Now it is mostly a backup notebook for sudden guests without computers on them.

After a bit of research and pre/re/over/install parties with some other Linux distributions I stopped with #!CrunchBang Linux. A nicely put together slimmed down xubuntu version with OpenBox as window manager. It's quite a minimalist eye-candy for me as a designer, and most importantly it has great, very active community. And well... it works quite fast on Celeron 650 with 192RAM.

Submitted by Andrey on Thu, 2009-06-18 23:06
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