So my brother Jerry dug up this photo of me circa age 1 give or take. Compare and contrast with the second photo below of Sam – there certainly seems to be more of a resemblance than I’d realized….
Photo of yours truly at about 1 year, circa summer 1967.
Sam’s photo below, at about ten months, December 2005.
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Just a quick note. In one of his cutest moments to-date, Sam waved goodbye to me as I was leaving for work this morning. For those readers without kids, I’m sure you’re like ‘so what’ – but let me tell you, it really tugs at the ol’ heartstrings. He’s such a cutie!
Forget about Aperture’s ‘beta release’ – it’s all about iLife ’06! I installed the yearly update late last week, and good lord does it rock. The improvements to iPhoto alone are worth the price of admission.
My iPhoto’05 library was over 28k images. So I was surprised to hear various reports that the ’06 installment increased capacity from 25k to 250k. Hmmm – perhaps that’s why my old install was so sluggish – but never any errors or warnings about the size of ye olde library. Anyway, the new version is blazingly fast – like WOW!
It also upgrades handling of RAW images. In iPhoto5, your edits to RAW images were to a JPEG version. You could also edit in an external editor, but you were still working with the JPEG version. 2006’s version enhances this by letting you open the actual RAW file in the external editor. It doesn’t automagically import the RAW edits back to iPhoto (though I wish it would), but you can fairly easily re-import the edited RAW version.
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In an interesting case of ‘who had the rights,’ it’s been widely reported on the web that Apple’s first video ad campaign promoting the new ‘Intel Inside’ Macs is a blatant rip off of one of my favorite bands music videos. Here is an excellent sie-by-side comparison created on the ‘Cult of Mac’ site. The Postal Service is one of many side projects of Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard, and their video for ‘Such Great Heights‘ is a frame-by-frame match to the Apple spot, showing bunny-suited lab techs in a clean room, carefully lifting out some precious silicon, etc. It turns out that the same director created both the Apple Intel ad and the Postal Service video. Unclear if he had rights to essentially duplicate a product for a commercial service without the band or label’s blessing, though. Ben chimes in on the controversy with a note on the band’s website saying that “We did not approve this commercialization and are extremely disappointed with both parties.” The band’s label could, conceivably, have approved reuse of the video which one would think they might own.
Long story short – I love the Postal Service, and can’t wait to get my hands on a MacBook Pro (at least when the 12″ is available). But like the controversy over the recent ‘orange’ Eminem iPod ads which bore their own uncanny resemblance to a Lugz campaign, this is fishy. I hope Apple comes out and clears this up soon.
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