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| 01-31-06 / 10:58 PM : Steve Jobs on the dark side : the video (cjed) |
| And to follow on SW, here is another fan video cut (i'm not alone !) that shows Steve Jobs joining the dark side... In this one a short sequence from the last film is also used. |
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| 01-31-06 / 01:47 AM : Another 30mn made song (cjed) |
 Here is anther song (piano based) made "live" in few minutes :PianNoQT.mp3 |
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| 01-27-06 / 11:19 PM : Soundsonline : End credits / Jazz Impro (cjed) |
| Returning to soundsonline, i discovered again new wonderful compositions. Among these, a song composed by the yet well known Roberto Ferrari, that he dedicated to Neil (akka Lionel Bansept, an also talented composer) : End credits. We also found this Jazz impro, no less impressive ! |
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| 01-27-06 / 09:47 PM : Macspeedzone : iMac Intel / G5 test (cjed) |
| Next to the Macworld test, Macspeedzone provides an article comparing performances of an Intel iMac versus an old G5. It is more realistic as the CPU usage is considered. Moreover Intel hardware controllers seem more powerful (5 times less CPU hungry while copying a large file). It is there. |
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| 01-25-06 / 12:09 AM : IBM Power6 (cjed) |
| Here is an interesting un article from ArsTechnica about the IBM Power6, that we would pleased to see in next XServe. It should have been planned (before the Intel switch ?) because this processor includes an Altivec unit, not found on previous Power4 and 5. |
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| 01-23-06 / 09:08 PM : Macintel : WinXP/OSX dual boot contest (cjed) |
| We can discover an intriguing contest on this site, aimed at rewarding the person who will be able to make dual boot (Windows XP / MacOSX) on the new Macintel. The gain comes from various contributors (readers), and is more that 800$ at this time (100$ from the author of the contest). We can however doubt money is what motivates hackers. |
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| 01-21-06 / 02:37 AM : New short SO example (cjed) |
| Here is a new short song made with SO, that shifts in all ways ! AllWays.mp3 |
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| 01-20-06 / 09:15 PM : Apple / Intel ad : did Apple copy ? (cjed) |
| Apple could have copied an ad from The Postal Service to make its Intel Mac new ad. Some elements of comparison are provided here. Indeed it is as if, on one hand, all companies are copying themselves and make some financial arrangements to stop pursuies, and on other hand software patents stops innovation by making illegal similarities resulting from different search paths. |
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| 01-20-06 / 08:58 PM : Apple : 4th in US, 4% of market share (cjed) |
| Apple gains on place for the year 2005, and was the fourth computers maker with 4% of market shares. It does not take account iPod sales. In Europe results shouldn't be as good due to conservatism and lobying. |
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| 01-12-06 / 08:26 PM : No Windows XP under Mac Intel (cjed) |
| New Mac Intel use EFI, successor to BIOS, a more advanced open firmware developped by Intel (allows to access a shell, launch diagnostics from it, and access components - even surf on the internet to grab last updates - before booting into an OS). However only 64 bits Intel processors (use EFI) are supported by XP. So we will have to wait Windows Vista to start Windows on the 32 bits Mac Intel. Meanwhile we could boot on Linux IA32 bits (supports EFI) and use WINE to emulate Windows APIs. |
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| 01-10-06 / 11:13 PM : Apple / Microsoft : second agreement (cjed) |
| We remember when S. Jobs came back to Apple in 1996, he then conclued a famous agreement with Microsoft stating that : Microsoft would continue porting Office suite to macintosh for at least 8 years (and would do a better job than the pathetic Word 6 for Mac...) and would bring some funds (the amount of the transaction wasn't made public). Apple in return would stop pursues and concede substantial shares (in fact 5% of the capital only, so Microsoft not only wasn't part of the administration board, nor they had buyed Apple. They sold these shares some years later). Today S. Jobs seemly reconducted the agreement for 5 years more. While Microsoft will continue developing Office for MacOSX, Apple will feed them with informations upon new Apple technologies (to be included in Microsoft mac applications... and probably in Windows Vista to try to catch up with MacOSX). Meanwhile, Office mac sells very well ; its user interface is far more better than Windows one. However performances are a concern, as even through VirtualPC emulation, some Office applications do better than native ones. We can only hope it will change with the next Office update for the new Mac Intel. |
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| 01-10-06 / 11:05 PM : Intel Ad (cjed) |
| Apple made available a new Intel Ad. Well, we remember Apple's anti Intel ads where these people were being "toasted"... |
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| 01-10-06 / 10:52 PM : iWeb : AJAX / keynote's video (cjed) |
 Among announces, we noticed iWeb, a web sites and blogs generator that brings a fabulous user interface, and that provides various templates and quick navigation in published images through AJAX technology.More informations by watching the keynote directly. |
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| 01-10-06 / 09:23 PM : Apple : Transition 3 completed (cjed) |
 Today Apple just completed its third transition, the switch to Intel processors (dual core chips). First transition consisted in switching over PowerPC (from Motorola 68k) in 1995, and second in switching to a modern OS (MacOSX, build upon OpenStep and FreeBSD) in 2000. This time ever, they achieved the goal without any difficulty. Now it will be easier to compare new macs (MacBook - up to 4 times faster than the old G4 PowerBook, iMac intel - more than two times faster than the old iMac G5) with common PCs, and mainly system performance, through applications and games benchmarks (for the later, it depends not only from Apple's OpenGL implementation in OSX, but also in graphic cards drivers quality, made with ATI and NVIDIA). |
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| 01-09-06 / 01:56 AM : Photos : Petit Palais (cjed) |
 To continue the serie, here are new photos added to Projets-->Images-->Photos :Petit Palais (taken from the K750i) |
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| 01-06-06 / 08:13 PM : Site access stats (cjed) |
 In less than a year (the site opened march 2005), here are some elements demonstrating the relevant grow of the site popularity (very good frequentation despite few efforts to promote it. The site was referenced by Google in a few weeks, while in a few months by Yahoo) : stats from Free say 3800 visits (112 000 hits) since creation, a top 30 visits a day (5 a day initially), 10 visits a day average (Google Analytics stats). Access from France represent 60% (95% before), while access from US now reaches 30% ! (other access are from various countries). The returning visitors rate is very high (43%) and access is mainly from Google (42%, versus 42% direct access, other are from an average number of 5 refering sites). Thank you ! |
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| 01-05-06 / 10:41 PM : MP3 Surround / MP3 Stereo eXtended (cjed) |
 The Fraunhofer institut provides at download a player and encoder for the new multichannels MP3 Surround and MP3 Stereo eXtended formats (as well as some samples examples). MP3 Surround encoder creates mutlichannels mp3 files from .wav files (6 .wav source files for example for a 5.1 playback), while MP3 SX encoder (Windows only for now) generates MP3 multichannels file from a regular mp3 stereo file, by adding computed surround (filtering). |
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| 01-02-06 / 02:41 AM : Photos: Grand Palais / Hôtel Concorde new year (cjed) |
 Here are new photos, added to the Projects-->Images-->Photos area :Grand Palais Hôtel Concorde-Lafayette (new year 2006) (news from 2005 are still available through the link [2005] at the top of the page) |
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