By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: February 12, 2008
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
- Aperture 2 Introduces Plugin API for Image Editing ★
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Way at the bottom of his Aperture 2 overview, David Schloss writes:
Apple has added the ability to create editing plug-ins for Aperture, which will, over time, revolutionize the program. Having an edit plug-in interface means that Aperture users will be able to do just about anything to their images. It’ll be possible to create plug-ins that replicate film effects, add borders, allow for selective edits like dodging and burning—the possibilities are pretty endless.
This is huge, but I can’t find any mention of it from Apple itself. Perhaps they’re waiting until they have plugin developers on board to promote it. It’s a big deal because if it takes off, it will obviate the need to use Photoshop for many purposes — and that’s something Adobe may not be willing to do, feature-politics-wise, with Lightroom.
- Macworld: Hands on With Apple TV, Take Two ★
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Christopher Breen on the new Apple TV.
- Fraser Speirs: Aperture 2 First Impressions ★
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Fraser Speirs:
The speed argument is over. Perhaps, though, I should say that it has just begun. Nobody argued that Aperture 1.5 struggled for performance whilst Lightroom does not. Aperture 2 certainly now appears to bear serious comparison with Lightroom 1.3 on performance.
- Apple TV 2.0 Guided Tour ★
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Apple TV 2.0 update ships.
- Inside the iPhone Gray Market ★
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Peter Burrows, reporting for BusinessWeek on the iPhone gray market:
The boom is being fueled not just by short supply of a hot product, but also by scant evidence of interference from Apple or its partners. Apple-authorized partners — AT&T, O2, Orange, and Deutsche Telekom’s (DT) T-Mobile — lose hundreds of dollars in monthly fees when subscribers forgo a two-year contract in favor of unlocking. But the bulk of the unlocking seems to be occurring in places where customers have no authorized carrier to choose from.
- Pixish = Spec Work? ★
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Pixish is getting some pushback on the grounds that it amounts to a forum for spec work.
Update: Derek Powazek addresses the spec work issue.
- Macworld on Aperture 2 ★
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Peter Cohen, reporting for Macworld:
“The theme of this release is performance, simplicity and imaging,” said Kirk Paulsen, Apple’s senior director, application Product Marketing.
I’ll be interested to see how things stand in the Aperture-Lightroom rivalry now.
- Aperture 2.0 ★
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Streamlined (read: “better”) interface, significant performance improvements (read: “Aperture 1 was slow”), and much more. $199, upgrades $99.