FlickrExport for Aperture 1.0

Flickrture!!

"so you really have no excuse for not checking these bad boys out."

Unless you have a newer Pentax, which for whatever silly reason Apple has not yet chosen to support in CoreImage.

The plugin costs as much as a year of flickr??? Unreal - it has one interface, is built on the iPhoto and flickr APIs, and costs more than some ground-up applications and 25% of iLife itself? Greed much?

hehe Granted, my gripes go a bit back, so I could be guilty of selectively projecting your name to all the articles with a whiny attitude. ;)
Looking over recent stuff my criticism doesn't apply all that much. I think it was mainly the time that apple released the iPod hi-fi and some of you guys expected a bit too much and got all vocal about Apple being stupid for releasing a good, but not groundbrekaing product, that got me a bit hostile. Anyway, I'll shut it, and I obviously still check things out, so you must be doing something right. :p

HS, I wonder if you might have me confused with a couple other bloggers. I often post positively about .Mac; I've been a member 2/3 years running, and I just renewed about a month ago. Dave Caolo, who is sadly no longer blogging with us, was the one who had the series of 'what's wrong with .Mac/alternatives' posts, and Dan Lurie, another TUAW blogger, wrote the 'web 2.0 crisis' post.

I also was one of the first to review the impressive new .Mac webmail, and I gave it largely positive marks for some impressive leaps ahead of its more popular competition such as Yahoo!'s webmail beta and even Gmail.

hehe I know this, and I appreciate opinions as such, my only gripe is the disproportion in relation to positive/negative posts that you submit. Of course, I am the first to admit that it does not matter what I think, it's mainly a point of view to let you know that the Apple crisis 2.0 that you tried to start, and the crusade against .mac, is kinda "heavy" for a lot of us.
I appreciate the reasons for doing what you do, and I actually think the crusade against .mac CAN bring about change in the product, given that you post it here, relentlessly. So I'm split on this, I appreciate efforts to make things better, while I don't like a lot of what I percieve to be agressive exaggerations on how bad Apple/.mac etc is. I know that's probably not your intent either, and as I said, my opinion doesn't matter.
I guess we commentators get a bit opinionated too. :)

I'm always happy to post about something going on, but keep in mind: this is a blog, not CNN. If we like or don't like something, management (Weblogs, Inc. and our overlords: AOL) *encourage* us to be vocal about it.

Take a look at this post, in fact: I mention Fraser released a new plugin, and I actually *do* get across my agenda: I love the plugin, and I pimp it as such. There are a lot of people out there who were upset when Fraser started charging for it, but I completely disagreed with them, backing up Fraser's decision, and posted as such a while back.

Sites like MacNN and MacCentral, on the other hand, stay a bit more strict to the 'news and nothing but the news' stretch - and I'm not saying that's either a good or a bad thing. Just trying to make the comparison to help you decide whether we're up your alley or not: we're a blog, and bloggers get opinionated. That's part of the reason we love writing for TUAW as opposed to anywhere else.

Hope this helps!

Thanks David, that's the kind of articles we like. :) Information without the agenda! ;)