Year: 2006

Peachpit Releases “Real World Aperture”

Introducing Aperture, Apple’s all-in-one postproduction tool for
professional digital photographers. Aperture is designed around a
camera raw-based workflow, so users can import, edit, catalog,
organize, retouch, publish, and archive images more effectively and
efficiently than ever before. In Real World Aperture, best-selling
author Ben Long takes Aperture users inside the application to
provide an in-depth understanding of its tools. He also offers a slew
of tips and workarounds for creating a custom Aperture workflow.

The Iconfactory Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Launch of New Web Sites

August 2nd, 2006 – The Iconfactory, icon design leader in the
software and user interface design industries, celebrates its 10th
anniversary with the launch of all-new versions of Iconfactory.com
and Stockicons.com. Over two years in design and development, the new
sites have been rebuilt from the ground up using Ruby on Rails and
are now hosted on Apple’s xServe platform. These sites boast many new
features and a wealth of new or revised content.

Paradigma Software Releases Valentina 2.4

NEW COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL, UNIVERAL BINARY SERVER

August 2, 2006. Beaverton, Oregon-based Paradigma Software, Inc
announces the immediate availability of Valentina 2.4, including
Valentina Office Server for Mac OS X Universal Binary edition and all
developer tools for Mac OS X and Windows.

Valentina 2’s next generation, object-relational database model
builds on the traditional relational database model much like C++
builds on top of the C language.