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Look here: New wide-angles from Nikon

Today nikon announced two new wide-angles one zoom and one prime let’s start with the prime:

Nikon AF-S 24mm f/1.4G ED
It has a maximum aperture of 1.4 which makes it ideal for low light work. Nikon incorperated nano crystal coating, 2 ED lens elements, 2 aspherical lens elements, a silent wave motor with rear focus and a rounded 9-blade aperture!

Nikon AF-S 16-35mm f/4G ED VR
Nikons first wide-angle with VR II. It also has 2 ED lens elements and 3 asperical lens elements. IF and a rounded 9-blade aperture is also build in.

Look here: Aperture 3 is out!

Apple just released apple aperture 3! It is packed wit more than 200 new features for photographers to take advantages. They’ve added functions from iPhoto ‘09 like Faces and Places but more exciting for me are all the new editing capabilities brought to this brand new version of aperture. Perhapes the most exciting part of Aperture 3 is the ability to selectivly edit a photo using a improved version of the brush. You can now soften skin with this tool amongst many other features. They’ve also added a new curves adjustment and better support for wacom tablet users like myself. To take advantage of the new bright amazing screens apple are bringing to their compuera they’ve included a fullscreen browser. And what can you find in the browser exept your photos? The HD video your salt might shoot! Aperture now supports HD video that you can send to final cut but keep organized in your aperture library! You can also use the HD videos in new slidshow themes. One thing I felt aperture lacked against lightroom was good printing support but apple fixed that and now I think it might be as good as lightroom in that area! One great technical achevement is now aperture is full 64-bit! I can’t wait to try this new version and if you want to learn more head over to apple to get your hands on the free trail of aperture 3! Aperture 3 website

Look Here!: Apple Store is down

Apples online store is now down, time to get the iPad into the store or is it time to give the MacBook pros i5 and i7 processors? I’ll be back with more info asap!

My macbook is broke

So I went to a apple certified service place to get my Macbooks fan fixed but somehow they broke a connection cable between the keyboard and logicboard while doing the repair so I won’t have my MacBook for a few days. If I don’t blog at regular time that’s is why hope you’ll stick around anyway these days and that this won’t cause you to much inconvinience!

Apple Quick Tip #16

Today I’ll go over the most basic shortcuts I use every day in Mac OS X.

cmd+w – Close Window
cmd+q – Close Application
cmd+n – Open new Finder window
cmd+alt+shift+q – Log out of OS X
cmd+alt+esc – Force quit menu opens
space – Use Quick-Look

Rumors: Next version of Aperture in beta testing

I just listened to te latest episode of Photofocus (episode 29) and around 7:07 the host Scott Bourn starts talking about a new version of Aperture being in Beta. This is really exciting for me as an Aperture user and I hope it has gotten so far that it’ll be released in late spring of 2010.

Here is what Scott said:

“..now we got Lightroom 3 coming out and maybe Aperture 3, I can tell you that in some point in time they’ve recently went into Beta testing on it. I decided to not being a part of the beta program so I have no idea when it is going to drop, I just know it is going on. Eventually Apple will talk about Aperture when they are ready.” – Scott Bourne host on Photofocus

Mac App Review: Voddler – Streamed Movies

Well to be fair Voddler isn’t really just a Mac app but you’ll get the idea! Voddler is a internet based service providing streamed video for free or for a rental fee. This is in a Beta stadium right now so you have to be invited and live in Sweden (or Norway, as they expand in a near future). Voddler delivers its content via desktop clients based on XBMC that works on Mac OS X (works on Snow Leopard) and Windows. They are also at work developing an Adobe Air version. They just released a new update to the client (February 4th, 2010) that feels a bit more stable and they’ve added sorting the movies by Free or Premium (rental) which is nice for me that ain’t gonna pay anything. Why? Because it is a beta and to charge more than most DVD rental places in my hometown charge is just not a good plan. To pay the licensing for the movies they have licensed they show some commercials in the begging of each move maybe 5-6 and then you are able to watch the movie uninterrupted which is really nice. It has a beautiful UI as you’ll see on my screenshot at the bottom of this post. But I have some issues that I can’t wrap my head around: Why does it say you need 13GB of free space, miss type? Why can’t I use my Apple remote with this? Still it is a nice service and I think it can grow into something great but please team Voddler think about charging so much for rentals it isn’t very smart.. October 29th 2009, Voddler had 500 movies in its database and I’m pretty sure that today they have a whole lot more than that! To learn more go to Voddler.com or @Voddler_movies on Twitter.

Screenshot of the user interface:

LOOK here: Book Book for MacBooks and MacBook Pros

This is so gorgeous! I would like to have one for my MacBook! The case is in 13″ and 15″ sizes. To find more info go to twelvesouth.com

iMac delivery – earlier than expected?

Just got a mail from Apple saying that they’ve sent my iMac from China today and that I can expect it to be delivered around February 18th.

First mail from Apple:
Ships: February 18th
Delivery: March 1st

Second mail from Apple:
Ships: February 6th
Delivery: February 18th

As long as it works than great! Can’t wait!