Aperture 3.1 is here, and it has a few speed improvements. The thing which caught me by surprise is how it handles Flickr and FaceBook uploads. In previous incarnations of Aperture 3, you only got a list of sets/albums which you have created and uploaded from Aperture. That’s fine - I can handle that.

However, 3.1 grabs all your picture information from Flickr, and when you look at a set (I’ll use Flickr terminology from now on) it downloads them. Here’s the headache. I don’t really mind that that is what it does (though some warning would have been nice), but what I do mind is that the downloaded images are orphans within the Aperture library.