For me, one of the most exciting new features that was added in Aperture was the Preview Fingerprinting, giving the potential for some really sophisticated integration between Aperture and other applications.

Aperture 1.0 had some pretty good web tools with nice templates, the automatic addition of metadata, Smart Web pages etc. However, that was a bit under three years ago - a long time in Web years...

Yeah, sounds promising as a blog post for mere mortals, doesn't it? ;-) However, it's been interesting observing how Aperture's database structure has evolved from version 1.5 to 2. Oh, and I've been playing with the new Preview fingerprinting stuff...

This was going to be a report on the Apple Pro Series seminar in London last Wednesday and the epic journey involved in getting there (let’s just say the rail network and the Tube weren’t playing nicely), but then Aperture 2.1 came out... I’m going to talk about a couple of items of interest to me - the new AppleScript functions in 2.1 (and their connotations) and the speed of Aperture updates since February.

Just in case you haven't seen this yet, Sal Sogholan's Aperture-InDesign Integration Demo is a thing of beauty. I'm in the process of tracking Sal down now so we can sit down and discuss the Aperture/AppleScript story these days. From what I can tell, it has a happy ending