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| 03-29-06 / 02:31 AM : Comments are now open to all (cjed) |
| You can now post comments without being logged (no account required anymore). You just have to report the generated image code (protection against bots/spam). |
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| 03-28-06 / 12:42 AM : Apple : number one (cjed) |
| Macgeneration.com reported that Apple ranks 1st place among year top performers, in an review made by Business Week. It is here. |
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| 03-27-06 / 11:52 PM : Microsoft : the crisis (cjed) |
| Macnn reported that Windows VISTA delay is only partially due to security problems (which alone is yet inadmissible), in fact there are numerous bugs plaging the whole system, notably in the media center features. Microsoft employees, upsets by efforts asked to them last months and by the recent delay in VISTA, asked the resignation of CEO Steve Balmer. Another proof billions do not make all, motivation an genius are random things. |
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| 03-27-06 / 11:18 PM : Golgoth 13 : retromusic (cjed) |
 Grospixels provides an article about Golgoth 13... a music band that uses old school style sounds (C64). We can listen to some of their songs there. |
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| 03-24-06 / 11:54 PM : Windows Vista delayed / OSX has 5 years ! (cjed) |
| While Microsoft annouces a delay in Windows Vista (despite their 4000 engineers... and cool ideas given by Apple), MacOSX reaches its 5 years ! We can look at the 5 majors evolutions of OSX on l'aventure Apple. Hopefully for Microsoft, Apple will soon release Leopard (OSX 10.5), that will brings some new ideas. Perhaps it is the reason why Apple choosed to delay the World Wide Developper Conference two months later... |
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| 03-23-06 / 10:38 PM : Radio France : contest for gentle artists (cjed) |
| Macbidouille reported the launch of a sound creation contest from Radio-France (the theme is spring). Prices are a joke (ipods) for such a contest, and on forums we all readed carrefully the user licence that has to be signed by artists : you give full rights to use the creation for 2 years (do not explicitely exclude commercial use). This is, on one hand editors make much money and/or engage pursuits against customers (DAVSI law), and on another hand they ask artists to give music for nothing (yep, me too !), or they recruit eastern "law cost" composers... Hopefully there is the SNAC :) s |
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| 03-23-06 / 01:57 AM : Site stats : blazzing fast progression (cjed) |
 Since last weeks site progression (number of hits/visits) made a huge gap (the grow was somewhat linear during the first 6 months). Indexation robots Googlebots, MSN, and e-Society come far much often, and accesses from France now only represent 50% (40% from US). I made a chart showing visits per month progression, using the great Chartsmith ( png | jpg ).s |
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| 03-23-06 / 12:30 AM : Apple makes fast Windows PCs (cjed) |
| In this article we can look at benchs made on Intel Macs running under Windows XP. Links to similar benchs from regular PCs are provided. Apple did great for a first try ! |
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| 03-22-06 / 10:14 PM : Playlist at musique-libre.org (cjed) |
| To made it more comfortable, i suggest you to listen to the songs through the playlist available on my page at musique-libre.org (so you don't have to click on each file, you can however skip/select a song). The songs there link to the same files on my site. It was streamed 3000 times. Emotional reached rank 425 from a total of 5000 songs at musique-libre, not so bad with just one user having rated it (clicks also do count). So don't forget to rate the songs if you like them (you have to be logged, but it's easy to open an account on musique-libre) ! |
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| 03-22-06 / 02:30 AM : A Piano variation (cjed) |
 Here is a piano variation, played with a bass, a violins section, a solo violin, all quantize less :PVariant.mp3 |
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| 03-21-06 / 08:39 PM : Apple - DAVSI : french's left behind ? (cjed) |
| Macbidouille pointed out this article that manages to explore possible reactions to french DAVSI law. Jobs could simply close the ITMS to french customers to avoid unveiling its Fairplay DRMs. It would however be a gift to its local competitors, Fnac and Sony (will also have to unveil its DRM system), that weren't able to catch up with Apple despite french people conservatism.s |
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| 03-17-06 / 11:18 PM : OscarWide (cjed) |
| Surprise, there is an unpublished song from late 2005 (progressive alternative ambiant :) : OscarWide.mp3 |
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| 03-17-06 / 10:50 PM : PBreak : another Piano & Orch song (cjed) |
| Here is PBreak (not related to Point Break), a quick made Piano/Orch song that reminds me the theme of TombRaider 4, by means of the strings section anb oboe glissando : PBreak.mp3 |
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| 03-17-06 / 09:29 PM : New stunning Apple ad (cjed) |
| There is a new Apple ad here for iPod, stunning. |
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| 03-16-06 / 11:26 PM : Présence PC contest : win a MacMini CoreDuo (cjed) |
| Présence PC site opened a contest to win... a mac min Core Duo ! It is here and the question is obvious. There is also an ipod in game, as in all contests... |
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| 03-16-06 / 10:35 PM : XP on MacIntel contest won (cjed) |
| Less than two months after the introduction of MacIntels, the famous contest aimed at booting Windows XP on these machines has been won (the amount of donations rised 14000 $). The solution comes from unsing BAMBIOS, an EFI program that emulates an old BIOS. |
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| 03-13-06 / 12:00 AM : Windows on MacIntel : last news (cjed) |
| Macwindows site makes a bilan on last developments aimed at running Windows on MacIntel (problem of the lack of EFI support from XP). For now the only solution is to run Windows through a regular PC emulation program, but ported to universal binary (Intel native). However performance is not optimal due to hooks, and DirectX is not managed. So we still have few months to wait for Vista, that will bring EFI support, not so bad ! |
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| 03-12-06 / 11:17 PM : John Lennon expo (Cité de la Musique) (cjed) |
 We can visit at the Cité de la Musique an exposition upon John Lennon, Unfinished Music. It unveils songs writings, sarcastics drawings made at classroom, school results, many instruments, documentary and movies. We will omit speaking about Lennon's wife Yoko Ono arts, border line... There is some photos taken at the expo : a piano with digital system to stop hammers (mute sound) and route sound through an electronic device. We tested it, through the headphones, it is a bit harsh and metallic, but sound release is good). Then there is a tree with messages from visitors, and an authentic Juke Box, very cool. Many guitars and some keyboards (among them there is a Vox from Continental, famous for its black keys where they normally are white). The most interesting is the reconstitution of a recording studio from 60's. We can see on the photos an AKG 240 Studio headphones :), thas was created in 1960 ! |
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| 03-10-06 / 09:56 PM : IE sucks : how the site renders on Safari/Firefox (cjed) |
| Definitively IE is a pain. Rendering of the site (under Windows) in it is awful : aliased fonts, darker colors, too much space in underline and between paragraphs, bug in css menus display, does not manage RSS syndication. Here is what it looks like under OSX, from Safari and Firefox. Despite different display engines (KHMTL vs Gecko), their rendering is very close (except controls - buttons, lists - replaced with native Aqua widgets under Safari). Hopefully Firefox on Windows somewhat looks acceptable. |
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| 03-10-06 / 02:10 AM : Continue : PangeB (cjed) |
| To follow on the Pangea theme, there is PangeB ! PangeB.mp3 |
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| 03-09-06 / 10:30 PM : Windows Vista resembles OS X : dont' click ! (cjed) |
| Macnn gives a link to an article showing growing similarities (not to say inspirations) between upcoming Windows VISTA and MacOSX, not only from system features concerns, but also from utility applications (image viewer, etc.) We know this yet, and the author is not objective when he concludes the opposite way with this : Windows Vista is still Windows, however, and that means you can be far more productive with Vista than is possible with OS X, especially if you're a heavy keyboard user like me. Comments on macnn prove these arguments to be false, but the author could have triggered this reaction intentionally, when we see this comment : Don't click on the link! Don't go to his website; you'd be falling right into his plan. This guy makes a living by pissing off the Mac community and raking in the advertiser money from all the page hits generated. Just ignore Thurott if you want to make him go away.... Even if we shouldn't look towards paranoia, it is true there should be an interest in these recurrent articles... |
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| 03-09-06 / 03:16 AM : Slumbering : new age song (cjed) |
| Here is another simple new age song : Slumbering.mp3 |
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| 03-05-06 / 01:03 PM : iPod Hifi : impressions (cjed) |
| To start, there is a slideshow from ipod Hifi made with iWeb (Ajax technology). Then we can watch on Cnet this video taken in first days of introduction, and finally read a detailed review, that brings in comparison the system with similar products from Bose and Altec Lansing. As expected, experience is here determinant (Bose case), but Apple's is always the most elegant if not the best sounding. |
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| 03-05-06 / 03:06 AM : Stairy song (cjed) |
| Here is a new epic song : Stairy.mp3 |
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| 03-02-06 / 10:08 PM : Installing Front Row on an unsupported mac (cjed) |
| There is a new cool guide about installing Front Row on an unsupported mac. |
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| 03-02-06 / 09:53 PM : MacBookPro VS Dell on OSX : ArsTechnica test (cjed) |
| The famous ArsTechnica published a very detailed comparison of the new MacBook Pro, against a Dell Inspiron 9100... running OSX (hacked version, basic drivers) or Windows (for tests involving multi-platform softwares). Scores from the old PowerBook G4 and the new Imac Core Duo are also given as reference. |
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| 03-02-06 / 09:33 PM : Sony Ericsson K790/K800 Review (cjed) |
| Macbidouille linked to a mobiles site that provides a very interesting review (in 3 parts) of new K790/K800 Sony Ericsson mobiles (new 3,2 megapixels camera module). This is here. It uses the new MemoryStick M2 format. |
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| 03-01-06 / 12:06 AM : Better than Minority Report (cjed) |
| Audiofanzine provides a link to a revolutionnary tactical screen ! |
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