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**Aperture, Logic Pro Updated** -- Apple continued to tweak its
  high-end applications last week, releasing updates to the photo-
  management program Aperture and the audio production application
  Logic Pro (although Apple also has a page detailing an update
  to Logic Express, the file it points to is the Pro update).
  Aperture 1.1.1 (a 13.6 MB download) follows close on the heels
  of last month's update and "addresses several issues related
  to performance, stability, color correction, and display
  compatibility," according to Apple. The release also refutes
  rumors that the Aperture development team had been disbanded;
  Apple responded to Macworld directly to deny the rumors.

<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/aperture111update.html>
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/04/aperture/index.php>

  The update for Logic Pro 7.2.1 (a 30 MB download) fixes a few
  bugs, including problems with import/export and support for
  ReWire and ReCycle on Intel-based Macs. The update also adds
  compatibility with Logic 7.1 songs and EuCon support for the
  Euphonix MC and CM408T control surfaces. [JLC]

<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/logicproupdate721.html>


**FireWire 800 ExpressCard for MacBook Pro** -- One of the common
  complaints about the 15-inch MacBook Pro was its lack of a
  FireWire 800 port, which is present on both the PowerBook G4
  and the new 17-inch MacBook Pro. The saving grace was the MacBook
  Pro's ExpressCard slot, which, as Glenn Fleishman pointed out
  in the last issue of TidBITS (see "ExpressCard on the Horizon"),
  allows data transfer of 2 Gbps in each direction, making it
  possible to run FireWire 800 via an ExpressCard. Now, Akumen,
  Inc. has announced the first such adapter in its ExpressWay
  Series, the "2-Port NitroAV FireWire800/1394b Professional Express
  Card (34 mm) Interface Adapter (MacBook Pro)." (Yes, that appears
  to be the full name). The card sports two FireWire 800 slots with
  a maximum throughput of 800 Mbps and costs $90. [JLC]

<http://www.nitroav.com/product/444/>
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08511>


**Two Corrections in TidBITS 827** -- Alert readers pointed out
  two corrections in last week's issue. In Mark Anbinder's article
  "MacBook Pro Line Adds 17-inch Size," the specification for the
  new laptop's SuperDrive should be 8x speed, not 4x (which Mark
  correctly wrote in his ExtraBITS post on the day the computer
  was announced, but got mangled when editing the issue).

<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08507>

  And in "Tools We Use: Backdrop," I incorrectly wrote that
  one could take a screenshot in Mac OS X using the keyboard
  combinations Command-3 or Command-4. Since I (along with
  the rest of the staff) use Snapz Pro X to capture screenshots,
  I rarely use the Mac OS X shortcuts, which are Command-Shift-3
  and Command-Shift-4. Thanks for keeping us (me) on our (my) toes!
  [JLC]

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