Photo edits made on iOS appear as reversible, non-destructive adjustments in Aperture -
iOS 5 brought some basic editing features to the Photos app. Select any photo, tap Edit, and you have options to rotate, enhance, remove red eyes, and crop. These changes are also reversible, as you can tap back into that photo at a later time and choose “revert to original.” Fortunately, Aperture, Apple’s pro-sumer photo editor and manager for the Mac, also recognizes these adjustments and even lets you roll them back.
More and more readers are asking for ways to follow just the topics they want on Finer Things sites, and I’m happy to oblige!
One thing you can do is bookmark specific tags, because I try to stay pretty organized and thorough when tagging all posts and reader submissions. If you’re a nut for OS X icons, you can visit Finer Things in Mac, click any post tagged icons, and read about all the slick little stuff Apple and third-party developers pack into those tiny buggers.
Same goes for iPhone and iPad apps at Finer Things in iOS. A lot of people have asked for a way to follow just the iPhone since they don’t own an iPad, or vice versa since they don’t have an iPhone. That’s why I’m using the iPhone apps and iPad apps tags and added them to the main site navigation.
If you have ideas for more tags you’d like to see, let us know or submit a post.
Every Tumblr site offers an RSS feed you can toss into Google Reader, Fever, and any other RSS/feed/newsreader. But a little-known trick of Tumblr is that it also does feeds for tags. Simply add /rss to the end of any tag URL to turn it into a feed you can follow. For example:
Naturally, the Finer Things sites are on Twitter and Facebook as well, so you can follow there too (find ‘Follow Us’ links in the sidebar)! Let us know if you have any more ideas for these sites, and thanks for reading!
Apple made some subtle changes to iconography in its OS X 10.7.3 update. Nice catch from Marc Edwards of Bjango.
OS X also presents a new icon when you take a window screenshot with ⌘-⇧-4.
OS X’s Finder makes it easy to collect your favorite stuff for easy access. Give these shortcuts a try:
Note: if you don’t see a sidebar or a toolbar at the top of your Finder window, hit ⌘-⌥-T (View > Hide Toolbar) to show them.
You can also drag just about anything to the toolbar at the top of your Finder window, though I haven’t been able to find a keyboard shortcut for that.
Have you recently found yourself asking “boy, won’t someone make a Twitterrific-inspired theme for Alfred?”
Don Southard has granted your wish with two Twitterrific-inspired Alfred Themes—one dark, one light, at his site, Dirt.
Mobelux: Carousel Extension For Safari and Chrome -
Mobelux has a new browser extension that lets you open Instagram photo links directly in Carousel, its slick Instagram client for Mac. Clever.
While playing a Genius Mix, you can’t see or do much with the song currently playing. You can’t even rate it; File > Rating is grayed out.
But if you hit Command-L (Controls > Go to Current Song), iTunes will show you the song in your library where you can add a rating and edit metadata. Hit Command-L again and you’ll be taken back to Genius Mixes.
For App Store apps, Quick Look shows the purchase date instead of Last Modified.
If playlists, artists, albums, and genres just don’t work for your music management and sync style, iTunes lets you manually add individual songs to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. As long as your device is plugged into your computer or you’ve enabled the new WiFi sync feature, you can drag songs from your music library onto your device in the iTunes sidebar.
iTunes will keep track of all manually added songs at the very bottom of your device’s Music info tab, pictured here. This is also where you can remove those songs.
Note that iTunes has long allowed manually adding other media like movies, TV shows, and podcasts from their respective device info tabs.
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