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| 05-29-06 / 01:24 AM : Full IMP : live strings impro (cjed) |
 based upon a 4mn strings ensemble impro, FullIMP includes some percussions and vintage choirs : FullIMP.mp3 |
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| 05-28-06 / 10:45 AM : Paris : Salon de la musique is back (cjed) |
| Finally, 12 years later, the french Salon de la musique is back at Paris, Porte de Versailles, in its original layout. It will occupy the Hall 3, at least as large as the Hall 2 where Apple Expo stands place. We hope we will be able to test instruments easily, as before. The dates are september 9-12. |
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| 05-26-06 / 06:49 PM : ARPDiv : 80's synths (cjed) |
| Made with 80's sounds (among others, the Alesis HR16 drumbox), ARPDiv is a simple arrangement : ARPDiv.mp3 |
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| 05-26-06 / 12:09 AM : Divx 6.5 codec & player (cjed) |
| Divx 6.5 on mac is available here. The free version operates for 6 months (may be reinstalled, or replaced by a future update). |
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| 05-25-06 / 02:07 AM : Majorque /3 (cjed) |
| To complete photos, here are links on some images from Coves del drach, as shots were forbidden during the visit : Official site More photos Some 360° panoramas from various places in Majorque : Low quality panoramas choosen from a map Panoramas search (type Mallorca) Commercial DVD featuring Majorque panoramas (sample : Palma Cathedrale) Finally, a link to free downloadable books from Georges Sand (among others A winter at Majorque). |
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| 05-25-06 / 12:24 AM : OSX kernel / Linux : end of false rumors (cjed) |
| Macgeneration pointed an article that carify false rumors of OSX Mach kernel being slower than the Linux one. We finally knew that Mysql based performance test showing poor performance on Mac were biased, and for sure people at Apple know what they do... |
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| 05-22-06 / 02:20 AM : PMotif : explore (cjed) |
| Sarting from a simple piano theme, here is PMotif, a World song : PMotif.mp3 |
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| 05-21-06 / 09:30 PM : FreeBox v5/HD TV (cjed) |
 Macbidouille pointed a detailed review of the FreeBox HD at PCInpact. HD content broadcast programs are close to non existent, and it requires a very expensive HD TV set... |
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| 05-20-06 / 12:16 PM : CodeWeavers CrossOver vs BootCamp & Parallels (cjed) |
| We now have at our disposal 3 solutions to run Windows applications on Intel Macs : BootCamp (restart needed, better preformances - better for games - but more painful, more risky because of virus, needs a copy of Windows and a dedicated partition), Parallels Workstation (easier to manage - no restart, safer, also require a Windows licence plus the software cost, few informations about games performances) and CodeWeavers CrossOver (doesn't require buying Windows but less compatible, notably the Windows applications instalation procedure is made out of Windows, because the software is aimed to replace Windows...). These three solutions - not finalised (alpha for CrossOver, beta for BootCamp, Release Candidate 1 for Workstation) - are presented in this article. To note, Windows images coming from VirtualPC do not allow booting over BootCamp. |
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| 05-19-06 / 01:52 PM : Apple Store Cube on Fifth Avenue opened (cjed) |
 As reported Macbidouille, Apple Insider published first photos from the new Apple Store at the Fifth Avenue (Manhattan), notably its giant transparent Cube, that demanded reworking after S. Jobs visited the work. That is here.MAJ : Apple now provides photos and videos of first opening hours (click on the choosen hour on the timeline). |
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| 05-19-06 / 01:02 PM : Creative : Apple strikes back the looser (cjed) |
| This week the small mp3 portable players manufacturer Creative (value of less than 500 M$, whereas Apple has 9 billions in cash - not mentioning its value...) sued the later about a patent, surprinsingly desposited last summer, 5 years after the introduction of the first ipod... Even without considering the fact that with this patent all music softwares are illegal, we must remind the column based navigation system inherited from MacOSX (2000), that came from NextStep (late 80's), and even from the Appe Lisa (1982) ! The true reason is that Creative needs money : its share lost 25 percents last three months (ipod success is lasting long), so they need attention and cash to try to catch up with the leader. The problem for them is that they will lose in every case : through bankrupkt if Apple decides to make the procedure last, or after the lawsuit Apple deposited some days after against Creative, saying Creative violated 4 of Apple's patents. Even when looking at this picture from a Creative player, the copy of ipod photo interface is obvious. But finally, most important is, as Microsoft has a lot of problems trying to copy the first MacOSX user interface from 2000, Creative can't catch up in terms of design, software and audio quality for its portable players. |
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| 05-16-06 / 02:01 AM : AS Balade : an asian romantic (cjed) |
| Here is a new entry in the romantic area, with an asian touch, AS Balade : AS_Balade.mp3 s |
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| 05-16-06 / 01:56 AM : DarkBalade comments at soundsonline (cjed) |
| Here are some nice comments at soundsonline.com, about the new DarkBalade song. |
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| 05-13-06 / 12:15 AM : Pirates : new soundtrack clue (cjed) |
| Here is Pirates, a new soundtrack clue quickly made : Pirates.mp3 |
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| 05-10-06 / 09:36 PM : DADVSI : interoperability article removed (cjed) |
| During the review of the DADVSI law at the french Sénat, the article upon required strong interoperability has been removed. That is a victory for Apple, that consolidates its leadership. In fact, Fnac, Virgin and Sony Music did worse, as their services aren't compatibles with Macs.s |
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| 05-09-06 / 11:34 PM : The Afa against the DADVSI law (cjed) |
| The Afa (association des fournisseurs d'accès), expressed strong reserves against the DADVSI law : difficulty to filter ports, consequence on the quality of service, absence of discrimination among sharing softwares. |
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| 05-09-06 / 11:12 PM : Music : donationware (cjed) |
 The site Génération Nouvelles Technologies presents an interesting idea, a donationware payment like system for musicians on internet. With this principle there is 3 possibilities when downloading a song : pay nothing, pay immediately or pay after what you want. In Canada, a singer would have tried that system and would have gained an average 1,14 $ per song, much more than from a recording company (1 to 2 % of the profits).Would be cool if integrated to musique-libre.org ? :-) |
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| 05-09-06 / 12:07 AM : Beattles Apple Corp looses against Apple Computer (cjed) |
| As expected, Macbidouille reported that Beattles's Apple Corp. editor looses against Apple Computer (Apple Corp. said Apple hadn't the right to sell music on the internet, using its trademark Apple). Even the logos aren't the same... and Apple Corp. is anecdotic compared with the giant Apple Computer. |
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| 05-07-06 / 02:24 PM : Encryted BitTorrent client in Leopard (cjed) |
| Macosrumors says that Apple planned to add a system level encrypted BitTorrent client to Leopard, in order to improve further system updates like tasks. |
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| 05-07-06 / 02:15 PM : OSX 10.5 Leopard : advanced multithreading (cjed) |
| As reported from Macosrumors, Apple worked with Intel to improve multitasking in MacOSX, using the new features from the Intel core chips. The Mach kernel always uses the porwerful symetric multiprocessing principle, however beyond four processor cores the number of application threads to manage may be too small to fill all of the available processor units... So the new mean will divide further the processes, even if they weren't a lot of multitasking coded in the programs. |
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| 05-05-06 / 01:01 PM : Steve Jobs : show on the City Council (cjed) |
 Macgeneration reported a funny video, where we see Steve Jobs audited at the Cupertino City Council, asking help for building a second Apple campus, arguing its company pays the highest duty here.Less star system than a real show, but always this charistmatic behaviour, as if he supposed the video would make his way... |
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| 05-03-06 / 01:46 PM : Windows VISTA : second delay (cjed) |
| Microsoft announced a second delay in the release of Windows VISTA (3 months more). Finally the product should ship two years after the initial planned date... and this one won't reach the richness of the first MacOSX version from 2000. Meanwhile Apple will soon be ready to ship Leopard (OSX 10.5). |
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| 05-03-06 / 12:00 AM : Majorque Pictures /2 (cjed) |
 The second part of pictures (optical) from Majorque is available. |
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| 05-02-06 / 05:25 PM : Simple piano balade (cjed) |
| Made using the patch DarkBalade from the Complete Piano card, here is a new simple melody : DarkBalade.mp3 |
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| 05-02-06 / 02:35 PM : New Apple ads (cjed) |
| Apple now shows on its site new ads they are using on US TV spots. There is a lot of argumentation. |
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| 05-02-06 / 12:49 AM : Majorque Pictures /1 (cjed) |
 First pictures from Majorque are available in the section Images-->Photos, that is here. They were taken from the K750i as a complement and represent less than a quarter of the overall (optical and digital). There is also some videos. |
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| 05-01-06 / 07:32 PM : Apple and Sun ZFS (cjed) |
| As reported Macnn, Apple may be interested in integrating into OSX the new ZFS filesystem developed by Sun. Based upon a transactionnal object model, it gets rid of old constraints encountered for 20 years, offers a huge performance gain, and adds powerful integrity checks and correction, also being endian scheme independant. |
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