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| 09-29-05 / 01:40 PM : Short break : Eze (cjed) |
| We are making a short break (4 days) at Nice, Villefranche-sur-mer, Beaulieu-sur-mer and the fabulous Eze village and its three cornices : Eze exotic garden Le Detailed map of Eze Site officiel d'Eze All about Eze La Greek Villa Kerylos (Beaulieu sur mer) Nice observatory |
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| 09-27-05 / 11:18 PM : Ipod nano screen failure : false rumors (cjed) |
| Lionel from macbidouille rejects rumors of ipod nano screen failures, arguing this sounds like an organised strike back from other vendors. Sales of the nano are stronger than expected. |
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| 09-26-05 / 10:34 PM : Reason 3 : presentation (french) (cjed) |
| This cool site provides a detailed review (in french, lot of screenshots) of last version of Reason. |
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| 09-24-05 / 01:55 AM : A real m... fucker (cjed) |
| Mr. T, a member from Macmusic forums, posted an hilarous video clip (and also a short making of). |
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| 09-24-05 / 01:19 AM : The History of Roland (cjed) |
| To follow up, here is a series of articles from Soundonsound (multiple parts, denses, with numerous pictures) about manufacturer Roland... from 1930 to nowdays ! |
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| 09-23-05 / 11:28 PM : Apple story (cjed) |
| In these Apple Expo days, it can be useful to refresh our memories, by going to the well known french site : L'aventure Apple. |
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| 09-23-05 / 11:13 PM : Opera browser now free (cjed) |
| Opera is now free. After a try to make it a paying download, they give up with this idea, in order close the gap with Firefox. |
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| 09-23-05 / 11:04 PM : Quake 4 preview (cjed) |
| A first review of Quake 4 is available here. It sounds promising. Meanwhile there is now a downloadable demo of Doom III on Macgamefiles, as for X2 : The Threat. |
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| 09-22-05 / 10:56 PM : Audiofanzine new appearence (cjed) |
| Audiofanzine adopts a new look, sweeter. Digging into the forums, we find an intersting thread about the Roland V-Synth and the VC1 card (D50 emulation). |
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| 09-22-05 / 10:38 PM : Cubase SE3 (cjed) |
| Steinberg announced the availibility of Cubase SE3 fot october (159 euros).s |
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| 09-22-05 / 10:35 PM : NI Akoustik Piano demos (cjed) |
| Native instruments now provides Akoustik Piano demos. Samples release is well done but attacks sound harsh, with less lifeness than Roland SRX Complete Piano. |
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| 09-20-05 / 12:49 AM : Myst V End of the Ages : J-2 (cjed) |
| The last Myst chapter, created by Cyan studios (are closing...) will ship this week (thursday, the 22). The collector version (59 euros, 49 euros for the single game) includes : - A Making-of (25 minutes) - The game OST - The game trailer - A 152 pages collector booklet including : a foreword from Rand Miller, the first sample from the new Myst novel (“The book of Marrim”, written by Rand Miller), a dictionnary and an explanation of the D'ni language, an overview of previous Myst games, and some pictures. This collector edition ships as a leather covered book. However, despite small price increase, the collector doesn't seem a bargain, as videos of the making of are already available online. |
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| 09-17-05 / 12:36 AM : Let's call her : special event (cjed) |
 Apple released the mpeg 4 HD video of the "special event" where the ipod nano was unveiled (as for the iphone, the Motorola ROKR, that comes with an integrated itunes player). As nothing happens without any reason, we discover that Steve Jobs counts within its friends, the famous Yo-yo Ma asian cello player (15 Grammy awards) and the singer Madonna, who he is chating with (ichat AV) during the show (release of her last album, and complete discography now available on ITMS).Then, this was 45 minutes of pleasure with our "spiritual leader" :) In fact he is much more fun than a guy like Bill Gates (despite a difficult life - oprhelan, and recent rescue from a rare cancer). At this occasion i noticed that QT Player now hiddes in the "Properties" panel a tab named "Statistics", that displays graphics of the video rate (highs of 1000 kbits, and 500 kbits average, for a resolution of 640*360). |
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| 09-14-05 / 09:23 PM : Alternative uses for the Nano (cjed) |
| The ipod Nano hiddes alternative uses... Be careful, its cover is very sensitive to stripes from early reports. |
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| 09-14-05 / 08:59 PM : Bill Gates last crazy affirmation (cjed) |
| The virgin like guy from the Silicon Valley made another crazy affirmation during the presentation of the interface from the upcoming Office 12 (that is trying copying Aqua) : "At any point in our history, we've had competitors who were better at doing something". And he continues : "we'll bring new things to it, do it better and integrate it in with other things...[]...in search, in music". What things is he speaking about, is this so hard to mention a sole one ? |
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| 09-13-05 / 12:21 AM : HBB FlashMic (cjed) |
 Here is an original microphone, powered by two batteries. It hides a 1 Go flash memory that allows direct 16 bits / 48khz recording, with no additional hardware. The batteries life is confortable, approximately 6h. |
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| 09-12-05 / 10:49 PM : The Nano Story (cjed) |
 Time Magazine publishes an article upon the birth of the ipod Nano. As always, Johnatan Ive did a meticulous job, that took him great efforts and time. |
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| 09-11-05 / 08:41 PM : Broken Flowers (cjed) |
| This last movie featuring Bill Murray is a pain, there simply isn't any event in the story (the sole interest is that we can speak without disturbing...) In particular the music is close to non existent (boring, and only two songs), so no OST available. Here is a variation i made from the "best" one, from what i remember ! Broken Flowers (variation)s |
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| 09-10-05 / 03:18 AM : Legacy Collection - Digital Edition (cjed) |
 Korg will ship late october an update to Korg Legacy Collection, the Korg Legacy Collection - Digital Edition. It brings full emulation of the legendary M1 (all PCM and presets, plus all those from 19 optional cards, and new drum sounds). As for the Wavestation, it also offers full emulation and PCM and presets from 6 optional cards. The software (199$) will require an USB dongle.s |
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| 09-08-05 / 09:04 PM : To get rid of brushed metal (cjed) |
| Here is another mean to replace the "brushed metal" texture from Finder (and applications) windows by an intermediate between the later and the older from Jaguar. There is also other themes that bring the new elegant texture from Tiger (used in System Preferences for example), that gets rid from stripes and adopts a curved shape. Whiteout There is also a new version of Iridium theme. |
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| 09-07-05 / 11:46 PM : I may get 2 nano... (cjed) |
 ... the white and the black ones : Apple just announced during a "special event" the successor of the ipod mini. The new iPod nano is, like rumors supposed, based on flash memory (2 and 4 Go models), that allows a thinner (pencil like) enclosure. Like the traditionnal iPod it brings a color display (photos compatible). Good luck to big fingers owners for mastering the click wheel !The clip |
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| 09-06-05 / 12:07 AM : Kawai ES4 and MP8 (cjed) |
 Kawai, well known digital pianos maker (like Gem Promega), presents the ES4, a "portable" digital piano (20 kg, reduced size), that fits well in the previous ES3 and ES5 family. It offers 96 notes polyphony and its piano sound is warm and strong. The provided demos demonstrate great secondary sounds (electric piano, realistic rhythms with great drum sounds). More expensive MP8 offers 192 notes polyphony, a brighter acoustic piano sound, fantastic brass sounds, a lovely acoustic guitar, a fine and expressive solo violin, deep strings, and also wonderful rhythms. |
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| 09-05-05 / 11:25 PM : We Interrupt These Messages... (cjed) |
| Osx86project, authors of the hack for running OSX Intel on every PC (including those with AMD processors) does a break. They express their solidarity for the worse natural disaster in their nation history, and invite to make donations. |
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| 09-05-05 / 01:04 AM : Yamaha P-140/140S (cjed) |
 Yamaha introduced new flagship digital pianos, the P-140 and P-140S. They benefit from the awarded P250 "Dynamic stereo" technology, for a smaller size and a lower price (1499$). The demos show a soft piano sound, but static in some ways when switching velocity layers (3 samples per note). The included electric piano, harpsichord, vibes and bass sound great.s |
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| 09-04-05 / 08:37 PM : Unity : game creation tool (cjed) |
 OverTheEdge is the editor of a new game creation tool named Unity. This one is so nice (great UI) and powerful (particles, physics engine, character skin animation, scripting, workflow) that Apple wrote an article about it. Unity allows Windows and OSX deployment. A time limited demo is available.We can even vote for a contest involving game oriented Dashboard Widgets made with this tool. |
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| 09-04-05 / 08:21 PM : x86 VS PPC / Linux VS OSX (cjed) |
| AnandTech publishes a very detailed and objective article that manage to explain differences between x86 and PPC platforms (in terms of performance, notably in the Intel transition perspective), and to provide some early explanations to performance gap between Linux and OSX on the same hardware, for specific tasks. Then we learn that Apple fixed a problem in the OSX networking code, where FreeBSD user threads where used in place of faster kernel threads (now used in Tiger). So Apple is aware of backwards inherited from the OSX multiple system layer architecture - however necessarily for compatibility purposes with Carbon, Cocoa and BSD (Mach task --> BSD task --> Carbon task). |
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