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| 08-31-06 / 11:49 PM : VISTA installation on Mac Intel : as a PC (cjed) |
| Macbidouille says it is possible through the VISTA RC1 to install this system on an Intel Mac without the help of Bootcamp (then without requiring Apple's drivers), thanks to EFI support. |
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| 08-31-06 / 09:02 AM : Music forever (vincent) |
| Metro France revealed the illimited download of music - for free! - proposed by Universal Music in Canada and USA ,whereas AOL will try the monthly subscription formula to fight against ITMS from Apple. All this could relaunch the recent french debate on music rights.s |
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| 08-30-06 / 11:56 PM : Apple / Google (cjed) |
| Presented as the key announcement of the day, Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, would join Apple administration board (a company he "admires"). Among historic members is Oracle CEO, but some think the new member could be a potential leader if S. Jobs should stop due to health problems. |
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| 08-30-06 / 10:06 PM : OSX 10.4.8 soon, Core Duo overclocking (cjed) |
| Macosrumors reveals there should be soon a 10.4.8 update for Tiger. It would be the biggest update ever, and would bring huge performance boost (among updated applications is expected DVDPlayer). More interesting, Core Duo processors would allow great monitoring possibilities, and even overclocking through software. |
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| 08-29-06 / 11:12 PM : Radeon X1900XT option price cut (cjed) |
| The Radeon X1900XT upgrade cost for Mac Pro is 100$ down to 250$ at Apple Store US (also for the standalone version of the card). That is, with 2 Go Ram (1 Go added) the total price is 3000$ for the most powerful computer ever (under OSX and Windows), the best design, and less noisy machine in its category. |
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| 08-26-06 / 01:47 PM : Zune : not exciting / iPod domination (cjed) |
| Through Macbidouille we learn that Le Nouvel Observateur posted a news (originated from Reuters) about the upcoming Microsoft Zune. This portable music player, due to the end of the year, will finally be manufactured by Toshiba. It will feature an (only) 3 inches splay (2,5 for the "now old" iPods), only 30 Go hard disk, and a Wifi connexion. Microsoft should unveil more details next weeks. After Creative left this market (more or less buyed by Apple...), and Dell doing the same now, it is unclear how Microsoft will try to compete. Besides Apple will celebrate next october the fifth year of the iPod ! It has 75% market shares (NPD survey), far more than half so. Never seen before, as in other areas - computing for example -, the leader HP/Compaq has less than 20% market share (5% for Apple). We have huge expectations for Apple upcoming announce about the next iPod revamp (probably around the anniversary day). Meanwhile we can watch again the original video of the iPod introdction in 2001 at iPod Fanatic (and see the famous jeans and pullover of S. Jobs :), or read the very instructive Saga de l'ipod written by Daniel Ichbiah, where we learn a lot about the iPod genese and AAC format. In his site (he is an occasional editor at SVM Mac) we can see the huge list of books he wrote (more than 60, mainly in music area), and some of its musical compositions. |
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| 08-26-06 / 01:30 PM : MP3 players : Dell stops (cjed) |
| After having stopped production of hard disks based music players last february (to focuse on flash based music players market, hoping less concurrence here from Apple), Dell finally has decided to stop production of all of its music players. So exit the DJ Jitty, Dell will refocus on its core market, computers. The problem now is (ever) Apple, that sells high end PCs (Mac Pro), 30% cheaper than Dell's... |
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| 08-25-06 / 11:21 PM : PetSafe Meal Feeder (cjed) |
| To continue with funny stuff, here is Meal Feeder, an electronic programmative meat feeder for pets ! Even better, Meal Feeder 3 allows to add a vocal message when it opens ! |
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| 08-25-06 / 02:25 AM : HGR : new Metal impro (cjed) |
 After Silverstone, Swollen and HVR, here is HGR, another simple metal impro made with Colossus :HGR.mp3 |
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| 08-24-06 / 10:54 PM : Windows VISTA : soon but not ready (cjed) |
| Just some months before the shipment of Windows VISTA, it seems the system (Beta 2) is still plagued with bugs, lacks stability, and requires huge memory resources (700 Mo, three times the amount required by XP). The author thinks there should be a Beta 3 instead launch. All that for a system without any innovation... still behind what MacOS X beta offered in 2000. Analysts expect few people to switch (less than half), most will wait over a year. Moreover there is numerous softwares incompatibilities, and notably custom party drivers problems. |
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| 08-24-06 / 10:32 PM : Apple/Creative : Apple pays, Creative comes to iPod (cjed) |
| Apple finally choosed to pay 100M$ (it is huge but Apple earns 5 times that in a quarter) to Creative for using its "patent that isn't really one" about the ipod navigation interface (the ipod was out years before Creative thought about that). Apple will even be able to gain money back if Creative succeeds in stoling other companies, using the same methods as with Apple. The most funny thing is that Creative is really leaving the music player competition, as with the settled agreement they also gained... the "Made for ipod" certification from Apple, that is they will produce accessories for iPod ! Very logical ! That was the only mean for Creative not to sell down. Finally Apple avoided the probably more costly buy of the whole company, and will grow easily its market shares. |
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| 08-24-06 / 12:30 AM : ThaiG : detuned Gong percussion (cjed) |
| ThaiG is an impro using Thai Gong (detuned notes) with added chaotic orchestration (due to incompatible tune) : ThaiG.mp3 |
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| 08-21-06 / 11:29 PM : Macworld : Impressions on Leopard (cjed) |
| Macworld delivers its impressions about Leopard. They also think the key word was "secret", and that the best is to come, Time Machine being just an example of what to expect (without counting the dramatic optimizations). |
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| 08-21-06 / 09:55 PM : My Dream App contest (cjed) |
 Macnn reported the launch of the My Dream App contest. The goal is to submit original ideas (concepts) for applications. Judges (among them Steve Wozniak) will select 3 finalists (will gain macs and ipods prices) and a team of experienced developers/designers will develop the corresponding applications. |
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| 08-18-06 / 12:38 AM : iPod : 75,6 % market share (cjed) |
| Macnn notes that a study from the NPD Group gives Apple's iPod 75,6 % market share on the portable player area (9,7% for SanDisk and only 4,3% for Creative, 2,5% for Samsung and 1,9% for Sony). |
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| 08-17-06 / 01:13 AM : BaseGrand2Guit : piano & 2 guitars (cjed) |
| This piano impro (dubbed with 2 acoustic guitars and a bass, from Colossus) is played without time correction and harmonics (2 guitars parts recorded separately) fit more or less : BaseGrand2Guit.mp3 |
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| 08-16-06 / 08:46 PM : Boot Camp 1.1 : Mac Pro compatible (cjed) |
| Apple announced the availability of a 1.1 version (still beta) of Boot Camp. It includes drivers for the new Mac Pro, isight and integrated microphone, allows the choice of the installation disk, and provides better keyboard's shortcuts for Windows. |
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| 08-14-06 / 11:41 PM : Starwars expo : photos (cjed) |
 New photos from the Starwars expo have been added to the Photos section. As expected nothing really new (all videos, from movies and bonus, were on the DVD, and all objects exposed had little details).We would have liked more animated scenes, like the one where Luke's X-Wing is disapearing in Dagobah (good reconstitution), or (at the end of the expo) the realtime video composition (blue) with various movies scenes at back. There was some cool Lego at the shop (at the exit) but prices were a joke (too high). |
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| 08-14-06 / 08:39 PM : KOT : asian Koto impro (cjed) |
| KOT is a 3mn impro that uses KOTO sound from Colossus (derived from RA), also its ethnic percussions and voice effect. Strings and brass are from SO Gold : KOT.mp3 |
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| 08-14-06 / 03:46 PM : Ars Technica : Mac Pro review (cjed) |
| Ars Technica posted an exhaustive review of the Mac Pro. As expected it is the best machine (best performances&features/price ratio) under OSX and Windows. The only issue is the poor default graphic card compared with the global performance (requires a costing 350$ high end card in option). |
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| 08-12-06 / 03:17 PM : Apple 30% cheaper than Dell (cjed) |
| Macbidouille made a comparison between prices of a Dell high end configuration and Apple's new Mac Pro. The equivalent Mac Pro (Quad Xeon at 2500 euros TTC, that reaches 4500 euros with an ultimate Quadro FX4500 card, a 3 years warranty and Windows XP 64) is 30 % cheaper than Dell's (6000 euros TTC). And Dell machine doesn't include Firewire 800, nor digital audio I/O, nor hardware RAID feature. |
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| 08-10-06 / 11:54 PM : Apple Design Award (cjed) |
 Apple presented during the WWDC the winners of the Apple Design Award : LineForm, iClip, modo, etc. |
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| 08-10-06 / 12:33 AM : Powermax : Mac Pro photos (cjed) |
| On the site powermax we can watch many photos of the Mac Pro. |
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| 08-08-06 / 10:45 PM : WWDC 2006 : video of the keynote (cjed) |
| Yesterday keynote (WWDC 2006) can be watched here on the Apple site. |
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| 08-08-06 / 10:42 PM : Leopard : Time machine demo (cjed) |
| Apple provides a video showing Time Machine in action, the Leopard time back feature to restore all files. There is also a demonstration video of Core Animation, system API that serve as base for TimeMachine (were also used to make the iTunes ad), and will allow to build the animated 3D Finder of Leopard (not yet unveiled feature). |
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| 08-07-06 / 09:21 PM : Apple Mac Pro : Quad Xeon 64 bits (cjed) |
| Apple site is now updated to present the Mac Pro announced last hour during the WWDC. They are fitted with 4 Core Xeon (64 bits). The base model (4*2,66 Ghz, 1 Go of ram, GeForce 7300GT 256Mo) is available under 3-5 days only, for 2600$ (+350 for Raedon X1900XT 512 Mo, more than twice more powerful). |
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| 08-07-06 / 08:44 PM : Hasta la vista, Vista (cjed) |
| As Apple WWDC completed some minutes ago, only some features of Leopard have been presented, to avoid copy from Microsoft said Apple. The direct attack uses slogans like "Hasta la vista, Vista" or "Introducing Vista 2.0". Leopard will finally ship in spring, 2007, just after Vista, to reduce the still evident stollen ideas. |
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| 08-03-06 / 11:03 PM : FileBrowse : 3D Icons / Thumbnails (cjed) |
| FileBrowse is a file browser for OSX that displays files icons in 3D, with a realtime representation of the content (thumbnails for image and video files, etc.). That is here but it isn't free (25$). |
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| 08-03-06 / 12:43 AM : OpenGL ARB merges with Khronos Group (cjed) |
| The OpenGL ARB merges with Khronos Group, that still worked seamlessly on extensions of OpenGL (such as OpenGL ES, for mobiles). With more means, they now should be able to face again with DirectX. |
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| 08-03-06 / 12:33 AM : Targus Bluetooth Laser Mouse (cjed) |
 More practical than Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse, the Targus Bluetooth Laser Mouse provides for 70 euros only rechargeable batteries that can charge transparently during use. |
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| 08-03-06 / 12:25 AM : Widgbox : 700 Dashboard widgets (cjed) |
| Macbidouille presents Widgbox, that includes a database of up to 700 Dashboard widgets. |
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