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After a successful beta test, Adobe has officially released Lightroom 2.0.
Lightroom 2.0 offers some minor bug fixes and improvements over the beta version, however most of the features should be familiar if you have been following along with the beta. I will not be drawn into debates of comparisons with Aperture 2, as I fully agree that competition is key to drive innovation. However, it seems that Adobe are copying Aperture’s version numbers !!!
Lightroom 2.0 costs US$299 outright or US$99 for an upgrade from Lightroom 1. A 30 day trial is also available.
A comprehensive comparison between Lightroom 1 and Lightroom 2.0 is available from Adobe.
Not a major feature release for Aperture, but version 2.1.1 resolves general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.
As with the previous updates to Apple iLife, support for the MobileMe service has been added.
The update is available here. The update is recommended to all users and is available as a 48MB download.
I received an email from a friend in New York that has just received their D700. The D700 is Nikon’s second full-frame DSLR, and is targeting the pro-sumer market or where people are looking at an upgrade to their D70/D80 models.
Our friends at Ritz Camera have announced a number of deals on the D700. To read more about the Nikon D700, I recommend the comprehensive hands-on preview by dpreview.com.
The following deals are currently in stock at Ritz Camera.
I have a short list of things I like about Vista and a growing list of frustrating things. I added another one of the frustrated list when I recently installed Gigabyte Easytune 6. Gigabyte Easytune is a way to make overclock adjustments to a Gigabyte motherboard. I was having no joy with NVIDIA nTune, and wanted to try something different.
I downloaded the latest version of Easytune 6 that included Vista 64-bit support (I am installing on an AMD FX). It installed fine and requested a re-boot. After the reboot Vista would blue-screen during the loading Vista screen. After trying a few times I decided it was time for Safe Mode. I rebooted into Safe Mode to uninstall Gigabyte Easytune. I tried to uninstall it through Control Panel -> Programs and Features, but it would complain about not being able to find the uninstaller file. Now what ? It looked like I will need to manually delete the installed files.
If it was blue-screening on bootup, then Easytune had introduced something into the bootup process. I first thought this was a new Windows service, but after looking through all of the services, there were no services for Easytune. This is where the msconfig tool comes in very handy. This is not available through the default Vista menus but it can be run from the command line or from the Start -> Search box. This tools allows finer-grained control of boot settings (effectively updating the boot.ini file), and also controlling UAC and Windows Services. This is where you can find the services that are not displayed through Control Panel -> Services. The Gigabyte Easytune service was set to start at bootup, so I disabled it and rebooted. Vista now booted smoothly, and I then had to manually removed all of the Easytune components, both from the file system and the registry. Note that searching the registry for related keys and deleting them can potentially break Vista, so please be very careful.
Now all seems fine, but I will definitely not be installing any Gigabyte tools in the future.
