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The new Aperture web site from O’Reily is definitely worth your time. It now includes the great websiteAperture tricks. Technorati Tags: Aperture, Apple, Blogs, iPhoto, Mac, Photography, Tip

Now that I am all about digital photography (at least this week) I've noticed some limitation of having only 2GB of RAM. If anything will tax your system, be it PC or Mac, it is digital media. Aperture really puts some serious load on my Mac Pro. I wanted to see exactly how much. Introducing iStat. It's a great little application (donation ware) that comes in either Widget or application flavors.

It's no secret that OS X is way ahead of Microsoft Vista. One example is the Core image built into OS X. One of the advantages of having image support built into the OS is that you can handle large image files with less strain on the cpu and memory. It also ensures that the user experience is consistent across multiple applications. I'm no expert, but there is a reason many graphics professionals choose the Apple platform.