Aperture birthday, I was off by a week!

Inside Aperture recounts the first year of Aperture's life on it's first birthday. They recount all the negativity surrounding the program I alluded to in my presentation.

Initial reactions were mixed, but mostly negative. Ars Technica came out with a scathing review, blasting the program on almost every count. Other Mac rumor sites predicted the demise of Aperture, claiming the entire Aperture team had been fired by Steve Jobs. Adobe rushed out a competing product called Lightroom in an attempt to steal Aperture’s thunder. It became very popular to bash Aperture.

If this were a movie plot, you’d assume Aperture was the black-hatted bad guy and that the Adobe Photoshop fanboys were wearing the white hats, riding in to save the day.

I hate being wrong

Ok ok don't be mad,... but it turns out you can play music with your slide shows in Aperture. I know I said different in my presentation.Hey sorry, but they hide the options in the prest menu. Not exactly handy! I don't when they added it, could have been in the last couple updates, maybe that's why it's hidden in the preset menu. They can't cram it into anywhere else, yet.

Not only can you play slide shows with music in Apeture, but the link is to an article about exporting simple flash based slide shows with a 3rd party plugin. More plug-ins for Aperture, the better!