Thanks to a very helpful Apple representative, we were able to determine that the problem for my situation was with an export plug-in.

This drove me nuts until I found this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1715124

User/Library/Application Support/Aperture/Plug-Ins/Export <- move contents of that to another location, and try creating a Vault. It worked for me. Now my Aperture library can be excluded from the dumber Time Machine backup, saving lots of time. Aperture Vault backups take only the new stuff, not my whole library.

[Apple] announced that it would no longer enforce its non-disclosure agreement for software it has released:

The NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success.

Software that hasn’t been released is still covered by the agreement.

That certainly sounds like a sensible distinction: Companies have a right to keep things that are secret a secret, but once the cat is out of the bag, it can’t be a secret any more.

There have been an increasing number developers complaining that Apple is making it too hard for developers, such as in this blog post on Ars Technica.

Despite its Soviet style of communication, Apple is certainly signaling that it understands that needs to keep its developers’some of its most fervent advocates’from becoming so angry they will switch their efforts to Google’s Android or other projects.

Earlier this week, Apple tweaked a few policies that had made some developers feel that the marketplace in the iTunes App store was unfair. Now you have to have bought the application to be able to review it. And a developer can’t simply make a minor modification in a program to jump to the top of the list of new applications.

See story.

It was, and I did. I had so many cookies the deletion took over 20 seconds on a 2.2GHz MacBook Pro.

I was spurred to action by Firefox taking 10+ icon dock “bounces” to launch.

I’m now using Firefox Add-On CookieSafe 3.03 to limit the cookie build-up.

Awaking from a deep public image slumber, Microsoft said it has canceled the disjointed $300M ad campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates, and now says it will level its ad guns at Apple’s “I’m a Mac” ads.

Microsoft decided not to focus on odd antics of Seinfeld and Gates this time around and instead will feature a company engineer who resembles the PC guy (aka John Hodgman) in Apple’s ads. According to those familiar with the new ad the “PC” guy says, “Hello, I’m a PC and I’ve been made into a stereotype.”

Heads across the Internet have found themselves being scratched 80% less since this story broke earlier today.

Anyone getting this? Today is the second day I’ve tried accepting iTunes 8’s Genius Terms and Conditions.