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| 12-24-06 / 01:28 AM : Aside piano and violins for MAS (cjed) |
 This song uses the patch DarkerSide from Complete Piano card, SO Gold Pro XP for strings (3 violins sections, a cellos ensemble), a glockenspiel and an oboe : DSSideMAS.mp3 |
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| 12-24-06 / 01:19 AM : Long XP legato strings impro (cjed) |
| XP_STTheme was the first song made with SO Gold Pro XP (december, 15), that uses 3 violins sections (one played legato), a cellos ensemble and a basses section : XP_STTheme.mp3 |
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| 12-23-06 / 07:02 PM : Midifiles for christmas (cjed) |
| For those who would want to try rearranging musics for the occasion, there is some sites providing free christmas midifiles : Midi/Noël Christmas Midi |
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| 12-23-06 / 03:26 PM : Avoid IE on the site (cjed) |
| Among rendering problems that plague IE (doesn't conform with the W3C CSS standard), the dotted attribute is treated as dashed (spaced lines). A workaround exists, that is applying an image (1 pixel) in background with repeat mode, but it implies defining div for each link... too complex to maintain and not elegant. Moreover we should add an asterisk towards the style definition to avoid it being treated by Firefox and Safari (are CSS compliant)... IE7 is expected to fix this bug (among others). Meanwhile you should stay with Firefox or Safari, because IE also doesn't respect the middle pannel width in all pages (sections headings) nor displays the colour gradiant background behind the heading titles, and doesn't display the scroll bar (navigation by year/month) correctly in absolute (fixed testing the browser and shifting positions by 10 pixels for IE...), without speaking about colors, fonts and images poor display quality.s |
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| 12-23-06 / 12:43 AM : Bloggers don't like efforts ? (cjed) |
| Numerous articles last days predicted that the number of blogs should fall in 2007 after a highest, and that we found now many more old bloggers. In fact very few update their blog in a day basis and few follow for more than a year, because of less interest for effort... However since i added the search feature to the site i see how useful it can be as a fast database for favorites, after being a modern personnal entry... and a mean to share creations. |
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| 12-22-06 / 11:57 PM : A black hole in action observed (cjed) |
| For the first time scientists had the chance (happens one time over 10 000 years...) to assist to the ingestion of a star by a giant black hole, thanks to the Galex satellite of the Nasa. As usual the numbers measured are unbelievable. |
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| 12-22-06 / 11:45 PM : Google Mars & Google Moon (cjed) |
 Following Google Earth, Google presents Google Mars and Google Moon... Google is everywhere, we are also expecting the results of their work with Apple since they are connected... Besides, Microsoft had to make a deal with Yahoo to strike back. |
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| 12-20-06 / 10:29 PM : VISTA UI isn't 3D (cjed) |
| Aero Windows VISTA UI isn't true 3D... the "flip" effect of windows when switching applications (alt tab) uses the same principle as OSX Quartz 2D (or Novell XGL Linux), this is false 3D : the video card (thanks to OpenGL on OSX, DirectX on VISTA) retreives windows content (as it is in the bitmap back buffer) as a large texture and applies transformations. That is the fact on OSX for genius effect, Exposé, etc. UI elements aren't defined in 3D. A video card cannot render complexe and precise graphics, for example fonts. So other rendering are in 2D. Tiger uses draw primitives that can take benefit from the video card, and Leopard should go further (Quartz 2D Extreme from Tiger is still years ahead of VISTA graphic engine, because it has evolved many times since the first version in 2002...). OSX also manages dynamic shadows for windows, menus, etc. (computed in teal time with 64 bits precision) and other compositing effects (transparency in menus, dialogs, windows - for example the terminal windows -, since 2000. Apple increased opacity in each new version of OSX and decreased the 3D appearence of buttons, to make the UI more readable...). OSX UI evolutions Quartz 2D --> Quartz 2D Extreme from 10.0 to 10.4 Flip windows on OSX |
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| 12-18-06 / 09:08 PM : NN Times : VISTA failed to copy OSX (cjed) |
| David Pogue from the NewYork Times compares in an humoristic article and video new "features" from Windows VISTA with what we had for some years in OSX... He concludes that despite the rule at Microsoft was clearly to copy all they could about OSX, they completely failed : so we can't really bare them for having copied, because the result is too bad...s |
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| 12-14-06 / 09:14 PM : Exponential ITMS sales grow curves (cjed) |
 Macbidouille forums led to this blog, that demonstrates through graphs the grow of ITMS sales during 2003 and 2006, as with ipods sales curve. All is explained, the curves show cumulative sales and as it is on a logarithmic scale, the near straight lines prove an exponential grow. |
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| 12-14-06 / 12:28 AM : Parallels Desktop available at fnac.com (cjed) |
| The virtualization software Parallels Desktop is available at Fnac site, that is uncommon :-) |
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| 12-14-06 / 12:22 AM : Apple / Orange : global solution (cjed) |
| Apple decided to go a step further in France, unveiling a global solution including ADSL subscription to Orange provider and Macbook loan : 59,90 euros per month for 36 months, the Macbook can be buyed after 12 months (5 euros more per month for 8 mbits instead one). At Macgeneration readers made calculations... that is still 1800 euros for the Macbook, the price of a great macbook... |
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| 12-14-06 / 12:10 AM : Leopard : 50% of the new features not unveiled (cjed) |
| As stated by Macosrumors, new features from Leopard that are known by now only represent 50% of the new features to be released when OSX 10.5 ships... The surprise will then be huge for Microsoft, that is yet unable with Vista to catch up with the first MacOSX 10.0 (early 2001)... |
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| 12-13-06 / 10:21 PM : ITMS sales : +78% (the truth) (cjed) |
| Analysts Piper Jaffray firm, aware of computing market and Apple, gives informations contradicting reports from Forrester Research that stated previously that ITMS sales have fallen. On the contrary sales were up by 78 percents during this year (2006) ! Some reported the new info, as La Tribune, others not...s |
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| 12-13-06 / 01:17 AM : Microsoft likes mac more than Windows (cjed) |
| Computerworld reported that James Allchin (Microsoft co-founder and Windows development chief) said in a mail sent to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates in 2004 that he would prefer using a mac... if he didn't work at Microsoft. He explained Microsoft is unable to make secure and non buggy softwares. That is here. |
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| 12-12-06 / 12:46 AM : WiiSaber : lightsaber using OSX and Wii (cjed) |
 Following MacSaber that allowed to mimic a lightsaber operation using movements sensors of the mac books, here is WiiSaber, that uses the last Wii remote OSX driver to play saber in an even more realistic way. |
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| 12-12-06 / 12:35 AM : Rumor : Illuminous interface in Leopard (cjed) |
| As rumored by Applegazette, the next OSX user interface included in Leopard (and replacing Aqua) would be named Illuminous. |
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| 12-09-06 / 01:27 AM : Why the site looks bad on Windows :) (cjed) |
| Here is a short explanation about the site rendering being so different on Windows (darker, saturated colors) - without mentioning bugs in positioning and dashed lines (bad conformance with standards in IE - ok in Firefox), and bad rendering of images (bad graphic engine on Windows). You have to know that Microsoft uses a 2.2 gamma value (TV standard) where Apple choosed 1.8 (standard for printers, as it was targeted for prepress), resulting in brighter colors on mac for the same colors values. A solution could be to replace the images with pictures in PNG format (can include the source plaform gamma value to proceed to compensation when displayed on a target platform using a different gamma value). The GIF and JPEG formats do not convey this information. However Windows didn't manage well PNGs. For backgrounds we should be able to detect the runtime platform and apply an adaptive factor (algorithm to determine)... Formula to adapt RGB values from Windows to another gamma (Annexe D, we want the opposite) The sRGB color space Article upon sRGB |
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| 12-08-06 / 11:36 PM : The whole theory for unification (cjed) |
| L'internaute provides an interesting and easy to understand science article about physical laws unification. |
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| 12-08-06 / 10:28 PM : Computerworld : Safari the best browser (cjed) |
| ComputerWorld published a comparative review of some of the best known internet browsers (there are more on Mac in fact if we count Camino, Shiira, Omniweb or iCab) : Firefox, Opera, IE and Safari. Their choice finally went for Safari over Firefox... but it isn't for Windows. And this is without considering the next version of Safari included in Leopard, that will use stunning new system features. |
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| 12-08-06 / 10:14 PM : Leopard Server (cjed) |
| Macworld published this time an article about Leopard Server. We had few details about this version (should be out when Leopard ships, or a bit later). |
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| 12-07-06 / 03:06 AM : A smooth FM (cjed) |
| SmoothStab uses sounds from FM8 demo (3 of sequence type, one of drums type and one of organ type) as with a bass and aditionnal hit hat from Kontakt 2 : SmoothStab.mp3 |
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| 12-05-06 / 10:04 PM : 100 Go hard disk for ipod (cjed) |
| Macnn reported that Toshiba will ship as soon as January 100 Go hard disks for ipod, just in time for next true video ipods that are expected soon (actual ipods video cannot store long movies). |
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| 12-04-06 / 09:04 PM : Rumors about the keynote (cjed) |
| Macosrumors last rumors for the January keynote bring new expectations : 2 or 3 iphones, a tablet mac, more infos on the iTV, new Mac Pro, announces for gamers. |
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| 12-04-06 / 08:59 PM : Safari : 4%, soon 10% (cjed) |
| Net Applications reported that Safari users represent 4% of internet users, that is just a third of Firefox users, another indication of the mac growth dynamic. Apple would have planned to reach 10% marketshare no further than mid 2008 (a bit more 5% at this time). |
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| 12-03-06 / 01:54 PM : QuickTime anniversary : 15 years (cjed) |
 Macgeneration reported the anniversary date for QuickTime, that is now 15 years old (was out in 91) ! We can read about versions here. I started with QT 1.6 on a LC475 in 94, and a little before with a Classic emulator on Atari MegaST with monochrome HD display (640*400...) QuickTime 2 was a revolution, and then version 4 (the famous Sorenson trailer for SW Episode 1).Some links about QT and QTVR : QT bridge site Macbidouille forums about QTVR |
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