Best Book/Class for Aperture

Can you direct me to what you consider the best book or online class that will review basics and get more advanced with brushes, plug ins, printing etc.?
I do mostly travel photography (books/slideshows) and fine art printing. I have been using Aperture since 1.0, and realize that I don't understand it or utilize it to it's potential. I still do some external editing in PS 4, but have started using Aperture more since 3.0.
Thanks as always for the help.

I have a lot of Aperture stuff here as well as some eBooks - I would recommend that you start with the org features of Aperture first and then move on to the finer points of adjustments. Adjustments are easy and intuitive very much driven by your eye. The org stuff in Aperture is it's real unique-ness it's where speeding up your process of getting work done will really shine if you get a good foundation.
[http://photo.rwboyer.com>
RB

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Can u help me in answering this questions:
Indicate the most efficient / appropriate standard Java (JDK 1.4 or lower) collections class for each requirement. Do not use any classes that are not in the standard JDK (e.g. Apache commons-collections classes).
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HashSet thereadOkay, why?
2.2. An insertion-ordered, non-unique collection
LinkedList thereadOkay, why?
2.3. A sorted, unique collection
TreeSet theread
TreeMap kv pair thereadOkay, but is collection with a small "c" or Collection with a captial "C"? Maps don't implement the Collection interface. In a general sense, you could consider them collections, but in Java land, usually that implies single-valued groupings--i.e., those that implement Collection.
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2.4. An insertion-ordered, unique collection
LinkedHashSet theread
LinkedHashMap thereadSame comments as above.
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LinkedList (In fact any class that implements List
Interface)No. Hint: Do you know what "random access" means, and why LinkedList is not a good choice?
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LinkedHashSet
LinkedHashMapNo. It doesn't say anything about uniqueness or k/v pairs.
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StackOkay.
2.8. List any of these classes which are not
thread-safe, if any. How
would you make these Collections thread-safe?
HashSet, LinkedList, TreeSet, TreeMap, LinkedHashSet,
LinkedHashMapI'm not going to match 'em all up one by one, but it seems about right.
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class. If no such object exists, the map should be
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The 8800GT 512 is great one?
I think I'll use in future with an Apple cinema display 23".
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http://www.barefeats.com/harper16.html
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Could you share your experience with us?
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Here's my prelim findings (as posted in another thread). Will come back with more detailed comments after I have a chance to test some more:
Re: nvidia 8800GT in 1st generation MacPro
Posted: 25-Apr-2008 13:08 in response to: Dale Strumpell
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I've just put one in my first gen mac pro, too. I can confirm a great deal of improvement over the stock 7300 gt. My prob was when an image had been straightened, cropped etc if I then attempted edge sharpening it was just awful - beachballs in abundance, crappy panning, slower than Capture NX. Now, though, it is fast and pleasant to use. That's the good news. The bad news is either:
1. Apple put such a puny graphics card in a Mac Pro (sic) in the first place (although it copes with everything except its own Pro photo software)
2. Apple wrote such idiosyncratic software (leaning on the on-graphics card memory so much) that meant Mac Pro (sic) machines hardly more than a year old couldn't cope without a new graphics card when running Apple's own pro photo software. That and the 7300 is still on the "recommended" list of cards for running Aperture 2.
Ho and, indeed, hum.
Cheers
D

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