Category: Thoughts

  • iPhoto 5.01 is out

    Apple has listened! They’re out with iPhoto 5.01. Fixes include: upgrading iPhoto 4 libraries, dragging albums into folder, importing MPEG 4 movies, and also includes a number of other minor fixes. So far it only seems to be available through “Software Update” but I’m sure it will be posted on the web soon. Original review

  • Past writings

    My past writings for various publishers and employers can be found at aaronpressman.com, but I’m still getting the hang of adding things to the side bar along the right side of this page.

  • Vanity search ratings

    My old boss, John Battelle, who among other projects writes SearchBlog, has a tongue-in-cheek method of evaluating new search engines. Discussing beta search site exalead, he checks how it performs on the vanity search, aka your name in quotes. I like this idea (although my wife says this post should be called “it’s all about…

  • Apple’s keynote provided server comparison to Microsoft

    Funny side note to yesterday’s Steve Jobs speech. The folks over at Netcraft monitored how various Web sites handled the overload of surfers as Apple unveiled new products. Apple’s own site and its online store, which both run obviously on Mac OS X, held up much better under far greater loads than did the site…