Schonhose

My feedreader informed me that Adobe has released an update for Adobe Lightroom. Based on the release notes this upgrade is not of any use for me since I don’t own a Mac or have any of those fancy new camera’s.

• Additional camera support for the Canon 1Ds Mark III, Nikon D3, Nikon D300, Olympus E-3, and more
• Updated Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard support

But looking a bit deeper I found the following (amongst others):

• Writing XMP metadata automatically has been corrected for performance issues

This is something I’m interested in, so I installed and updated. First impression is that it really works smoother and is more responsive (that is after I added it as a trusted application in Kaspersky Internet Security). So let’s see how this would work out.

On a high note: I found out why my Winamp was starting so slow. It had to do with a plugin part of the essentials package: gen_undo. It has something todo with the undo of a playlist but the behavior I observed was that it did do a lot of writing in winamp.ini, increasing the size up to more then 10 times the normal size. So it would build up in size and then take it down again to normal size. All this writing made Kaspersky a bit nervous, so a lot of scanning was done also. This slowed down the start-up process considerably.

I solved it by deleting the plugin. I didn’t use it anyway. At least Winamp starts up much (and I really mean much) faster now.