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FlickrExport for Aperture 1.0
Fraser Speirs was happy to announce this morning the official 1.0 release of his FlickrExport for Aperture plugin, which provides a direct conduit for your works of art to the heavenly nirvana of Flickr. I don't own Aperture, but the plugin seems to have the same UI and functionality as his #1 smash hit: FlickrExport for iPhoto (though it should be noted that on his product page, Frasier makes it clear that the existence of a feature in one of the plugins does not necessitate its existence in the other). Pricing for the Aperture plugin is $26.25 USD (or £14), and a cross-grades from the iPhoto plugin can be had for 50% off by using your FlickrExport for iPhoto serial number as a coupon code. Clever, Mr. Speirs.
Demos of both plugins are of course offered, and Apple (finally!) released a 30-day test drive of Aperture last month, so you really have no excuse for not checking these bad boys out. I was a user of the iPhoto plugin since the early days, and I gladly dropped the cash for a license.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
HS said 1:21PM on 12-09-2006
Thanks David, that's the kind of articles we like. :) Information without the agenda! ;)
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David Chartier said 1:42PM on 12-09-2006
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!
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HS said 1:52PM on 12-09-2006
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. :)
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David Chartier said 4:06PM on 12-09-2006
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.
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HS said 5:36PM on 12-09-2006
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
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Todd said 9:31PM on 12-09-2006
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?
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okto said 3:38AM on 12-11-2006
"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.
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Matthew said 2:37AM on 12-10-2006
Flickrture!!
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