I was just reading Scott Kelby’s blog and I learned that he is preparing a second volume of his great The Digital Photography Book. I like his writing style a lot and I would recommend his books to everyone who likes to take pictures. The best part is, that Amazon has the book at preorder here for less than $16 ( after 5% discount ). I look forward for our copy to arrive sometime in late December/early January.

The new cat in the block is Leopard. Here is my initial experience with it:
I did a clean install on a MacBook without problems, transferring all user info + applications from an old disk. I had to reinstall, however, because of Adobe. Leopard will let you install on a case-sensitive filesystem, so I decided to give it a try. However, Photoshop didn’t like that, so I had to do it again choosing the case-insensitive filesystem.
On a different MacBook, however, things didn’t go as smoothly. This time a simple automatic upgrade was performed. It turned out that if you have APE(Application Enhancer) installed, you will not have a problem free upgrade. I had to boot into single user mode, remove all APE frameworks and panels and reboot. That wasn’t the end though. Upon boot, the system couldn’t find any users! And it didn’t start the setup assistant, so I had to go to single user mode again, reset the root password, login as root via the GUI and add a regular user, than transfer the /Users/olduser to /Users/newuser. That fixed the problem, but it was not like “Start the upgrade process, go have a coffee and when you come back you will have a new Leopard running on you machine”. It was good for Angel that I have some knowledge on computers and I managed to do all the above, but I can imagine, that a lot of people will have to format their drives, erasing all their data forever(because they didn’t backup) and do a clean install of Leopard.

Today was a fine day. First, I went again to take the drivers test and, I guess, I managed to improve my skills to almost perfection ( I couldn’t park close enough to sidewalk on the parallel parking) and I passed. After that I learned from Yovko’s blog about what Apple did to Microsoft, which made me laugh . To top it all, today was released the first Video Skype for Linux!!! It’s a revolution!. Now, if they manage to implement video conference before the Windows one, they’ll be the best.

Only Adobe has to port Photoshop for Linux and I think windblows will go down