The Pho­tok­ina will start at Tues­day 26 sep­tem­ber 2006. A dig­i­tal imag­ing show with the latest inno­va­tions, prod­uct announce­ments and expert’s view from top key play­ers from the dig­i­tal imag­ing indus­try. Insid­ers say Apple will prob­a­bly announce Aper­ture 1.5 on Monday 25 sep­tem­ber (Start Pho­tok­ina a little early this year).

Apple sent out invi­ta­tions to select media mem­bers. The invite says “It’s Showtime”. The event will be held at 10:00am Pacific time at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in down­town San Fran­cisco, California.

Ahu­u­u­uha, Red Alert!!! A virus wasn’t detected!!! Some­one posted a file on MacRu​mors.com and said it were screen­shots of Mac OS 10.5 (code­name Leop­ard). The file is a com­pressed pro­gram with an icon to make it look like a JPEG file. Safari actu­ally warns you that “Name of the file” may con­tain an appli­ca­tion. The safety of this file cannot be deter­mined. Are you sure you want to down­load “Name of the file”? After you agree, Safari will down­load the file and if in Safari’s Gen­eral Pref­er­ence Pane the option “Open “safe” files after downloading” is turned on, it will expand the file auto­mat­i­cally to your chosen loca­tion. So if you want to be “super” secure, turn this option off.
Most users are admin­is­tra­tor on their machines, so if you double click the exe­cutable it will auto­mat­i­cally install itself in ~/Library/InputManagers and deletes all files from this folder. So if you want to be more secure create a stan­dard user and use this one as your default account. More details on OSX.Leap.A at Syman­tec.
The anti-​virus com­pa­nies are call­ing it some­thing worse than it actu­ally is. The “Trojan Horse” isn’t as dan­ger­ous as virus com­pa­nies claim, but hey they do got to sell soft­ware, don’t they?Update: There is some con­fu­sion if the new Oompa-​Loompa Trojan really a Trojan is, if you lookup the def­i­n­i­tion at Wikipedia: “a stand­alone pro­gram that mas­quer­ades as some­thing else, like a game or image file”.

Aper­ture, a rel­a­tive new appli­ca­tion was added recently to the pro line-​up. I have already devel­oped a love-​hate rela­tion­ship with this new Apple pro appli­ca­tion! I should con­cider it just a 1.0 release and hope that this poten­tially great appli­ca­tion will evolve grad­u­ally in time. Hope­fully Apple will sup­port my Canon EOS 350D soon! In the mean time I’ll have to do with the Raw.plist hack or just shoot in JPEG.