Apple have just released Mac OS X 10.4.7 Update
Amongst other things the following benefits are listed…

Improves compatibility for Adobe Photoshop CS2 by preventing menu items being highlighted if the cursor was in an image’s zoom field.
Prevents certain Adobe and Quark applications from unexpectedly quitting when saving a file to a non-Apple AFP server.

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Microsoft has aquired iView Multimedia whose Media Pro asset management tool is used by many professional photographers. The precise reason for this aquisition is not clear, although it has only been a matter of time and the right price before before someone snapped them up. So far iView has been sold as single licenses [...]

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 26, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced it has acquired the technology assets of Pixmantec ApS, makers of digital imaging software that provides advanced workflow management and processing capabilities for digital camera raw files. The acquisition strengthens Adobe’s leadership position in raw processing.

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Apple has published an extensive Aperture online tutorial, aimed at letting Aperture users learn how to use the application better in just ten steps.
Written by former MD of the Association of Photographers, Jonathan Briggs, the tutorial offers a selection of keyboard short-cuts and ten easy-to-comprehend notes covering a variety of the application’s functions.
Hints [...]

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Press Release: iView Multimedia has released a free update to its flagship digital asset management program iView MediaPro.
Version 3.1.1 provides the following improvements and enhancements:
• Improved support for IPTC metadata during file synchronization, including the reinstatement of support for IPTC legacy metadata. The IPTC block is now UTF-8 encoded and fully inclusive (i.e it contains [...]

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Up late working?… need to count some sheep?
Well here’s 10,000 of them…
…courtesy of the staff at Amazon who hand drew all of them.
http://www.thesheepmarket.com/
(oh by the way, this is sheep number 3161… nice eh!)

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Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 13, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced an update to the public beta of Adobe Lightroom, an all-new digital imaging workflow solution for professional photographers that allows them to import, select, develop and showcase large volumes of images. The latest version adds features suggested by beta [...]

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Own It offers free intellectual property advice and is operated by the University of the Arts London.
They are currently offering two Podcasts for free download, which could be essential reading for any UK photographer and are of likely interest to many others.
They are…
“Photographing other people’s property – architecture, trademarks, logos”
and…
“Your Work On The Web And [...]

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