Apple releases Aperture 3

Apple released Aperture 3 on Tuesday. The program is now 64-bit capable and offers "200 new features."

Apple and the importance of Macworld ExpoThis week, Macworld Expo opens in San Francisco. And, as everyone likely knows, it’s a particularly significant episode of Expo because Apple will not be counted among the participants. No Apple announcements or booth and no Steve-led keynote.
Apple offers 'find out how' tutorials as podcastsApple has re-released the "find out how" tutorial videos from its site as podcasts. Presumably, more videos are on their way to keep aspiring i-everything users occupied.

Product	Score	Price
13-inch MacBook Pro/2.26GHz	104	$1,169.00
13-inch MacBook Pro/2.53GHz	239	$1,474.00
13-inch MacBook/2.26GHz	111	$899.00
17-inch MacBook Pro/2.8GHz	256	$2,398.99
15-inch MacBook Pro/2.53GHz	118	$1,678.99
15-inch MacBook Pro/2.8GHz	139	$2,238.99
15-inch MacBook Pro/2.66GHz	127	$1,948.99
MacBook Air/2.13GHz	72	$1,728.99
MacBook Air/1.86GHz	156	$1,438.99

Product	Score	Price
Mac Pro/Quad-Core Xeon 2.66GHz	203	$2,388.00
27-inch iMac Core 2 Duo/3.06GHz	162	$1,694.99
21.5-inch iMac Core 2 Duo/3.06GHz (ATI graphics)	164	$1,489.00
21.5-inch iMac Core 2 Duo/3.06GHz (Nvidia graphics)	148	$1,193.99
Mac Mini Core 2 Duo/2.26 GHz (Late 2009)	104	$579.98
Mac Mini Core 2 Duo/2.53 GHz (Late 2009)	118	$769.98
Mac Pro/8-Core Xeon 2.26GHz	206
27-inch quad-core iMac/2.66GHz		$1,999.00

Contextual consolidation in iTunes 9 Learn how to consolidate only selected music and media in iTunes 9.
Rotate user images in many OS X apps Learn how to rotate the "avatar" images used to represent a user in programs such as iChat and Address Book.
InDesign tip: tinting grayscale photos Sure, you can tint photos in Photoshop. But with InDesign you have the freedom to tint, adjust, and retint as often as you like, with only one linked image file to manage.
Bugs & Fixes: iTunes 9.0.3. and the 'remember password' bug This week's iTunes 9.0.3 update means that the application no longer ignores the "Remember password for purchases" setting. That's great, but Ted Landau wishes Apple would have come clean about the bug more quickly.
Possibly reduce iPhoto launch times Learn one way to possibly improve iPhoto's launch time if you find that yours is taking forever to launch.

Looking Back: Photoshop turns 20 In the 20 years since its introduction, Photoshop has changed the way we see the world, altered our sense of reality, and transformed the way we express ourselves.
Apple and the importance of Macworld Expo This week, Macworld Expo opens in San Francisco. And, as everyone likely knows, it’s a particularly significant episode of Expo because Apple will not be counted among the participants. No Apple announcements or booth and no Steve-led keynote.
'Lost' is found early on France's iTunes Store Episodes of the final season of Lost have started to appear in some European iTunes Stores just days after airing in the U.S.--could this be a change in the way shows make their way oversees?
Virtualization: Behind the scenes Rob Griffiths provides a peek behind the curtain at the virtualization roundup, explaining what goes into such a project, and why it can take so long to come together.
Opinion: Pondering a tablet's home screen Rob Griffiths ponders what the home screen of a still-mythical Apple tablet device might look like.

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