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NVidia drivers have a huge history of being unreliable under Vista (the cause of the majority of reported Vista crashes in 2007), so I was wary about getting a Mac with an NVidia card. With the exception of Aperture, I have not had any problem though.

Aperture crashes every 15 minutes on my “hackintosh” (standard intel laptop running MacOS X). I thought that was just because the machine is a non-Apple machine – but since I also have the problem on my iMac, I would guess it is something related to the coding of Aperture rather than a specific graphics card.

For the moment I have abandoned Aperture.

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Call me cheap – well, what do you expect from a Scot – but I really didn’t fancy paying 12 quid for the FlickrExport plugin.

Thankfully it seems I don’t need to – Dustin Li has written a free iPhoto to Flickr exporter/importer plugin. Splendid. I’ll be trying it out later.

How cheap am I? I even started looking at the Flickr API, thinking I’d write my own Perl script to keep flickr in sync with my iPhoto library. Rather than spend 12 quid, I’d have spent several hours of my free time writing code.

Typical tight Scot, eh?

Photos from the Kanamara Penis Festival a few weeks back, in Kanamara just outside Tokyo. More information about the festival is in this post.

I had thought that only the Japanese would be “open” enough to celebrate the penis. I was wrong. I’ve since found out the Korea has an entire Penis Park – a must visit the next time I’m in Korea.

I thought Aperture was the solution to managing my photos – but on the first day using it, this corruption happened. There’s no way I’m trusting my photos to an application that does this.

Part 2 of my quest to find a photo organiser that works for me on the Mac.

Or should that be “Photo Organization On Macs”? ;)

For years I’ve been organising my photos on Windows in a folder structure and archiving onto DVD, viewing the photos with a simple tool like ACDSee Classic (which allows lossless rotation). It works well for keeping photos safe, but not for browsing and searching. As I result, I tend to take a lot of photos, store them nicely away, but I don’t spend so much time viewing them – since it’s a pain to navigate between folders.

Now that I’m moving to Mac OS X, I want to try to find a way to make my photo viewing as pleasurable as my MP3 listening. iTunes changed the way I organise and browse my MP3s, making it easier to mark favourites, find the songs I’m looking for, etc – I’m looking for something that will give me the same “revolution” when it comes to organising my photos.

With 100GB of past photos only made sense of by the folders they are in, however, that’s not an easy task. It starts here: part 1 of my adventure trying photo organisation software on the Mac.