aperture

What is geotagging?

Geotagging is simply inserting geographic location data in a media file so that it can be placed on a map or otherwise related geographically with other images, services etc. It is the technology used by flickr maps, the Places categorization in iPhoto and many other services.

Aperture

Aperture is Apples professional photo management tool

Listening to the digital story this morning prompted me to think about my Aperture setup.

Aperture has its "vault" functionality - but this only works to the local hard drive or to USB/firewire drives directly attached to the box.

I have a RAID5 based NAS (network attached storage) device which I would  far prefer to have my backups on - since I've had USB disks die on me before.

How to get the vault onto the network device?

I use a plugin to Aperture to send mail to gmail. It was failing due to a

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path
building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find
valid certification path to requested target

The plugin author (plugin home page) found the following utility:

http://blogs.sun.com/andreas/entry/no_more_unable_to_find

I finally managed to get consistent colour right from the screen through to the printer. Here's what I needed to do.

First step was to calibrate the screen (Macbook Pro in this case). To do this I used the Spyder2 calibration device from ColorVision.

Second step was to get the Epson papers onto the Macbook Pro (they were not originally present - since the printer is connected to a Mac Mini and used over the network - but I grabbed them from the mini and stuck them in the same location.