This article comes from Derrick Story on theDigitalStory.com, and talks about an interesting iOS app and accompanying Mac “server” app that lets you access our iPad library anywhere.

Pretty clever stuff… read all about here: Aperture on an iPad - Anywhere

This should help silence the naysayers…

Aperture’s SDK (Software Development Kit), which are the guidelines and tools that developers need to create plugins for Aperture, was recently updated (2013-06-05) to version 3.4. The update is very minor, but exceptionally signficant. Here’s what the developer page has to say about it.

The Aperture 3.4 SDK provides the same functionality as the Aperture 2.1 SDK, but in addition, provides templates and samples that build with Xcode 4.4 and later, and on either OS X 10.7.5 or 10.8.3 and later.

I just finished watching the WWDC 2013 keynote presentation, and I gotta say that iOS 7 looks pretty sweet. One of the big things that caught my eye of course was the new Photos app, and its showing of “Collections” and “Moments”. This is notably similar to the service Everpix.com, where your photos are automatically collected into, well, collections and moments, making it easy to find and a pleasure to browse your photos.

Run software update to see the latest from Apple

Aperture received a minor update to address a crashing bug, and last week a handful of new cameras gained supported by Aperture (and iPhoto, of course). Click through to read the details![more]

Things have been slow in Aperture-land, so here’s a little something to tide you over…

I’ve talked about backup a bunch in the past (just go to the Archives page and do a page text search for “backup”) which apparently got some attention; this infographic was sent along to me to consider sharing. It’s cute and relavent, so here you go. Enjoy!

This is a nice (and free!) addition to an already stellar service. If you’re a Backblaze user, you can now get a free iOS app to monitor your backups and even retrieve files on the go.

For those new to the site, I’ll say it again… unless you have three copies of a file, the file doesn’t exist.

Some of you may have seen the posts I’ve been placing on theBWphoto.com, in preparation for my current big gallery show, “The Sculpture Series”. Well, the show is now hanging, and the official opening is this Friday. So exciting!

Thanks @Gordito73 for catching this!

Hot on the tail of the Aperture 3.4.4 update is the Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 4.05, including… wait for it… Fujifilm cameras!

yaaaaaaayyyyy (I can hear it from here)

Here’s the list:

It’s no Lightroom 5 beta, but it’s an update…

I’ve received several messages asking about this in the last few weeks, so that means it’s time to write it up!

You may have at some point seen a notification badge show up on your Aperture icon, like you’d see on Mail or Messages, and wonder what it’s for. The simple answer is it’s from a Shared Photo Stream. Whenever someone “likes” or comments on a photo you’ve shared with them, you’ll get a notification anywhere you’ve enabled Photo Stream. That could be any iOS device on iOS 6, or it could also be in iPhoto or Aperture.

We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!

When you see the badge, if you open Photo Stream in Aperture you should see a blue dot on the Shared Photo Stream that has a notification, and if you open that, you’ll see blue dot(s) on the photos that have new likes or comments.[more]

I just installed the “full Nik Collection” (only $126 with the ApertureExpert discount!) and much to my chagrin noticed that a collection of recent Silver Efex Pro 2 presets I’d created were missing. This was kind of a Big Deal™ because I’m working on a gallery show, have been experimenting with settings, and really needed my history of saved attempts to go back on.

Posting this for my friend Matthew London, a photographer on Treasure Island looking for a photo editing assistant who’s proficient in Aperture.

Check his ad here… I know he’s gotten quite a bit of interest but is still looking for “the one”.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/med/3683097768.html

This is huge news for those who’ve been drooling over Nik Software plugins but hedging on the price…

The entire collection is now just $149!

Hi folks, this just landed in my inbox… onOne Software is having a 50% off sale. Click through below to get the discount!

From OnOne Software…