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PHPture: Aperture on the web

PHPture is very cool, and almost makes me wish I used Aperture to organize my photos. PHPture leverages the web technologies that are baked into every Mac running OS X to enable sharing of your Aperture library over the web. PHPture is limited to serving up webpages from the Mac that has Aperture installed on it by default, but I don't see why you can't serve up PHPture from a remote server that has access to your Aperture library.
PHPture is open source, requires PHP 5 (which isn't included with OS X) and has been tested on OS X 10.4.9.
Thanks, Nik.

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alex said 9:15PM on 5-22-2007
because aperture isn't already slow enough...lets limit the library to 1mb/s
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Tony said 11:11PM on 5-22-2007
"because aperture isn't already slow enough...lets limit the library to 1mb/s"
Aperture slow? I hadn't noticed. I just finished processing 200 RAW files and it all went fine...
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Peter said 11:27PM on 5-22-2007
Uhh Aperture is quite fast even on my old, obsolete MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.16 with 2 gigs of ram.
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Ahmad said 12:32AM on 5-23-2007
why would you consider your MBP obsolete?
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Peter said 12:05PM on 5-23-2007
kinda just stressing the fact that its not the latest and greatest... I still love it.
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hangon said 12:17PM on 5-23-2007
aperture vs lightroom speed: Aperture is SLOOOOOOOOW while lightroom is FAAAAAAAST
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ACR said 1:08PM on 5-23-2007
PHPture is GREAT: and fast (does not uses Aperture, but access to the database...)
Missing a slideshow...
Hint: on OS X, use MAMP to install PHP5: free and easy install (and uninstall).
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Tony said 1:53PM on 5-23-2007
"aperture vs lightroom speed: Aperture is SLOOOOOOOOW while lightroom is FAAAAAAAST"
I used the Lightroom beta for a couple weeks...To me it was no faster (or slower) than Aperture. They're both equally fast and responsive to everything I'm doing. What, specifically, is slow about Aperture for you? Also, what system are you running it on?
I ultimately went with Aperture because I like the library management features MUCH better than Lightroom...but that's just me. To each his own...
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sam said 10:54AM on 5-24-2007
what is the browser in the pic? it looks sweet.
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