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06-30-07 / 03:24 PM : Arturia : the V COLLECTION (cjed)
Arturia presents the V COLLECTION. , that bundles those 7 products (the whole is priced 549 euros) : the Moog Modular, the minimoog, the CS-80, the Prophet 5, the Prophet VS, the ARP 2600 and the Jupiter-8.
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06-30-07 / 03:21 PM : ScummVM 0.1 (cjed)
A new version of ScummVM (the virtual machine for LucasArts adventure games) brings bug fixes to games and support to new ones. That is here.
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06-30-07 / 03:17 PM : iPhone is here (cjed)
First photos of iPhone inside are available here, as well as first reviews and photos. The new 7.3 version of iTunes allows synchro with the iPhone.
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06-28-07 / 11:23 PM : Cakewalk Studio Instruments (cjed)
Cakewalk presents Studio Instruments, a plugin for Windows and OSX (AudioUnit) that includes drums, bass, electric piano and strings samples. The sound can also be triggered through the graphical representation of the instruments (see the video on the site). The software is prices 50$ (downloadable).
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06-28-07 / 01:17 AM : Quantum Leap Ministry of Rock demos (cjed)
Demos of Quantum Leap Ministry of Rock are available at soundsonline. The result is incredible !
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06-28-07 / 12:23 AM : DOSBox : emulate DOS games on PPC and Intel (cjed)
DOSBox is a DOS emulator for Windows (including VISTA) and even MacOSX (universal ninary, so compatible with Intel and PowerPC !). On a 1,25 Ghz G4 adventure games from mid nineties run, but far from smooth (it would be interesting to compare these performances with those in Windows 2000 DOS under Virtual PC). However performances on Intel mac shoud be far more greater. That is here for the download.
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06-28-07 / 12:12 AM : Unreleased Doom midifiles (cjed)
John Romero provides at download from his famous blog unreleased midifiles of Doom, that weren't included in the original game. He also has in his archives NextStep sources of the game.
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06-28-07 / 12:07 AM : Need for Speed: Carbon preview (cjed)
IMG posted a preview of Need for Speed: Carbon and some screenshots.
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06-26-07 / 11:27 PM : Sample Magic Sunset Sessions (cjed)
Sample Magic presented Sunset Sessions, a 3,3 Go library (1,8 Go of 24 bits samples, and Apple Loops and Rex files) for Kontakt 2, in these categories : Drums (old-school beats, lazy chillout grooves, fills and masses of percussion loops), Key (Rhodes, piano licks), music loops (lushly orchestrated musical building blocks), pads and textures, livre instruments (sultry trombone, woody double bass, flutes, xylophone, jazzy bass, guitar) and effects (spacey FX, sparkling vocoders, analogue bleeps, synth washes, glitches, drum hits, etc.)
Audio demos are available, and the product is priced 60 pounds.
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06-26-07 / 11:17 PM : Parallels 3 only supports DirectX 8 (cjed)
Macworld makes the point on Parallels 3 and games : OpenGL games run fine (for example Prey, based on the Doom 3 engine), however DirectX support is limited to version 8, then recent games (and Vista Aero) aren't compatibles. So perhaps Cider compatibility is better with managed games, and finally the quick switch provided by Leopard's new Boot Camp may be the best solution.
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06-26-07 / 11:10 PM : Expected added features in Leopard final (cjed)
AppleInsider reported that new small features should be added to Leopard for the final release : Blu-Ray and HD-DVD support in DVD Player, full screen playback in QT Player without requiring the Pro licence, snapshots volumes clones through ZFS.
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06-26-07 / 10:49 PM : ZFS beta for Leopard : writing support (cjed)
Macrumors reported that Apple seeded to developers a ZFS beta module that enables writing (only read before).
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06-25-07 / 11:28 PM : JazzMutants Dexter soon (cjed)
JazzMutants Dexter, presented during the MusikMesse, will finally be available July, 5. This multitouch control surface is aimed at being user-friendly, whereas the Lemur control surface was targeted to be more modular. The compatible sequencers list includes Cubase and Logic.
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06-25-07 / 11:12 PM : Ueberschall Liquid Drums (cjed)
Ueberschall presented Liquid Drums, the eight volume of the Liquid Instruments series. As previous titles it provides loops (rhythmic here) and allows to edit notes, their position and even their pitch (or to delete them), the tempo. More than 450 kits construction loops kits are included on the DVD (2 Go), in various styles : Pop, RnB, Hip Hop, Funk, Soul, Disco, Jazz, Swing, Bossanova, Samba, Rock, and Drum & Bass.
Audio demos are available on the site, and the product can be buyed through Best Service site (priced 174 euros).
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06-25-07 / 10:53 PM : Audio demos for EWQL Gypsy and Fab Four (cjed)
EastWest finally released audio demos for Quantum Leap Gypsy and Fab Four Virtual Instrument. Those for other new products (Quantum Leap Pianos, Ministry of rock, Voices of Passion...) are expected in a few days.
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06-24-07 / 02:45 PM : A New Light episode for Myst Online (cjed)
A new episode, A New Light, is available for Myst Online : Uru Live since yesterday. It offers a new age, Er'Cana :
Power is shifting and new leaders begin to emerge while those from the past begin to fade. Amidst all the chaos, the Age of Er’Cana is released and Explorers are asked to help feed the darkening lake. Meanwhile, new information is revealed and more begin to fear the coming war.
Er’Cana features a vast landscape with hours of unique gameplay that can be played single player or with friends.

We can look at screenshots on the site Uru Obsession.
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06-24-07 / 02:14 PM : IMG : Transgaming interview (cjed)
IMG provides an interview of Transgaming CEO. He states that Cider is the future of mac gaming, and that his team has very deep knowledge in workarounds to map DirectX calls to OpenGL calls, and did a great job optimizing shaders on mac.
Cider is based upon Cedega, a non-free Wine fork developped by Transgaming. However packaged games are certified in terms of compatibility, and changes are made to Cider to provide the best performances.
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06-24-07 / 12:42 AM : Apple : third music retailer (cjed)
Apple is now the third music retailer in US with 10% sales share, behind Wal-Mart and best-Buy (15,8 and 13,8%), and it even did better than Amazon (6,7%).
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06-24-07 / 12:34 AM : iPhone new video : Word and Excel support (cjed)
Apple provides a new long video demonstrating the iPhone (20 minutes, 175 Mo), where we learn that it can read Word and Excel documents.
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06-22-07 / 12:55 AM : Propellerhead Reason 4 beta (cjed)
Propellerhead announced that a beta test campain for Reason 4 is opened. This version brings a new arpeggiator (RPG-8), a 6 oscillators polyphonic synthesizer (Thor) and a new more powerful sequencer. The update will cost 99$.
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06-22-07 / 12:33 AM : Marathon Resurrection soon (cjed)
Marathon Resurrection, the Marathon port project to Unreal Tournament, should be completed soon. The Faq also says that other projects exist (ports to other engines).s
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06-21-07 / 12:30 AM : Youtube on iPhone through Wifi (cjed)
Apple just announced that the iPhone will feature when it ships (June, 29) a new application, that will allow to play YouTube videos (streaming from standard Wifi networks or from EDGE Networks). It will provide the first videos reencoded in H264 format by Google (10000 will be available starting June, 29). That is here for stunning demos. Then it is the missing application in iPhone applications matrix presented during the Macworld.
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06-19-07 / 12:34 AM : ChocolateAudio Mock Bass (cjed)
ChocolateAudio presented Mock Bass, a 335 Mo 24 bits electric bass samples library for Kontakt 2 and ESX24. It is priced 54$ and audio demos are available.
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06-19-07 / 12:27 AM : John Carmack and macs (cjed)
During the upcoming E3 show (next July) id Software will unveil most of details about its new 3D engine, idTech5. Meanwhile John Carmack provided some informations at the Apple WWDC2007 keynote, and a Macworld article makes the point about his strong support for mac (he developed Doom and Quake on NextStep), and on his opinion on virtualizations solutions like Cider.
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06-19-07 / 12:13 AM : Bryce 5.5 free / afordable upgrade to 6.0 (cjed)
Following the free Bryce 5.0 that was available last summer (wasn't compatible with Tiger), we can now download for free Bryce 5.5 (Tiger compliant but PowerPC only) here. Moreover an affordable upgrade to version 6.0 (Intel mac compatible) is provided for 20$...
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06-19-07 / 12:04 AM : NY Magazine : article on S. Jobs (cjed)
The New York Magazine provides online a very long article on Steve Jobs. A good mean to check our background infos on the subject, or to digg further for those who didn't see Pirates of the Silicon Valley movie...
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06-18-07 / 11:49 PM : iPhone : record battery life, better screen (cjed)
Apple announced the final iPhone specifications on battery life : it is far more better than expected : 8h for communications ( 5h initialy announced in January), 24h for audio playback (the same as for the ipod nano), and respectively 6h and 7h for internet browsing and video playback. Moreover Apple replaced the plastic touchscreen by a new lens-quality glass one, stronger and better than concurrency, and that enhances readability. Then Apple quote is rising again, above 125$.
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06-16-07 / 03:04 PM : Pipeloops Madeleine (cjed)
Pipeloops presents an organ sounds library recorded at the Eglise de la Madeleine, compatible with their Hauptwerk-2 software and Kontakt 2. The required memory for Kontakt 2 is 280 Mo (total size is 1100 Mo). We can listen to audio demos and download a limited trial version.
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06-16-07 / 02:55 PM : Game music composer interview (cjed)
IMG provides an Interview of Jeremy Soule, a composer that made the musics for games Total Annihilation, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Neverwinter Nights.
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06-16-07 / 02:50 PM : Cider and mac gaming future (cjed)
Folowing the Apple and EA partnership announce, the site extremetech is septical about the future of gaming on mac, as EA will also use Transgaming Cider virtualization system to do porting, and performances compared with native games are not guaranted.
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06-16-07 / 02:44 PM : iWork : 3D UI through CoreAnimation (cjed)
Following an announce for a job at the iWork development team, we can say the software suite may bring 3D effects in its UI, probably through CoreAnimation.
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06-16-07 / 02:39 PM : Safari on Windows : Yellow Box is back (cjed)
Macrumors points out that Safari 3 for Windows instals 3 dll corresponding to CoreFoundation, the procedural APIs set that provide the same features as Cocoa Foundation framework classes. So the Yellow Box is somewhat back, and we can expect other iApps soon on Windows.
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06-15-07 / 09:23 PM : 50 years of space adventure (vincent)
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06-13-07 / 11:17 PM : Leopard will support ZFS partially (cjed)
Apple stated that Leopard will indeed provide ZFS as an option, but that it will be a limited support (read-only access, as ZFS is used for huge storage, made by other means). The default filesystem will still be HFS+.
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06-12-07 / 11:41 PM : Leopard Server (cjed)
Leopard Server, that will also ship in October, has been presented. It includes a wiki server, podcast producer, spotlight with search on remote servers, a new iCal server based upon the open standard CalDAV, Leopard clients configuration, a Network Health utility, a status Dashboard widget, an update to Core Services that are now 64 bits (Apache 2, MySQL 5, Postfix, Cyrus, Podcast Producer and QuickTime Streaming Server 6) and the UNIX3 certification, a System Imaging Utility that manages BootCamp partitions, XGrid2, etc.
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06-12-07 / 11:06 PM : ZFS included in FreeBSD 7.0 (cjed)
ZFS wasn't mentioned during keynote, however it just has been integrated in the FreeBSD Head branch and should be available soon for the FreeBSD 7.0 release. Then there is a chance for it to appear in Leopard when it ships, or a few months later.
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06-12-07 / 10:57 PM : WWDC keynote video (cjed)
The WWDC keynote is now available in mpeg4 on the Apple site.
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06-11-07 / 10:53 PM : Safari 3 on Windows, faster than IE (cjed)
Apple provides at download a beta of Safari 3. Moreover it is now also available on Windows. Performances are announced two times better than IE on Windows.
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06-11-07 / 10:49 PM : Videos of Leopard new features (cjed)
Apple provides videos of new unveiled Leopard features : new dock with tiles, new files explorer alla CoverFlow, faster switch between Windows and MacOSX, etc.
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06-09-07 / 05:53 PM : Leopard : the window concept reinvented (cjed)
One of the great new Leopard features expected to be announced next Monday during the WWDC is the new way to design applications using Core Animation. The window concept should be completely renewed :
Core Animation to take center stage on Monday
Kiss Boring Interfaces Goodbye With Apple's New Animated OS

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06-09-07 / 04:35 PM : Steinberg Sequel review (cjed)
Audiofanzine provides a full review of the new Steinberg audio&Midi sequencer, Sequel. This affordable software (99$) seems really more powerful than GarageBand (easy as GB's Midi editing is so much limited) and features a very intuitive, snap and good looking user interface. Moreover included audio instruments (600) may sound close as Yamaha Motif quality as stated in the article.s
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06-09-07 / 03:38 PM : Parallels Desktop 3.0 / VMWare Fusion (cjed)
The final version of Parallels Desktop 3.0 is now shipping (80 euros). Among supported games are Half Life 2, WoW, Quake 4, Far Cry. Through the online video we see that the framerate isn't great (acceptable), it reminds the video demonstrating Half Life 2 under CodeWeavers Crossover.
Meanwhile VMWare provides a new beta of its Fusion virtualizer, that many users reported to be more powerful and better integrated.
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06-08-07 / 12:22 PM : Black holes and strings (vincent)
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06-07-07 / 11:42 PM : Leopard will use ZFS (cjed)
Sun confirmed that Leopard will use Sun ZFS filesystem as standard. Notably it will provide transactionnal access, it doesn't require any maintenance, it allows huge allocation (128 bits filesystem) and offers better performances.
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06-05-07 / 10:59 PM : Camino 1.5 available (cjed)
The version 1.5 of Camino is finally available here. It brings the browser up to date with Firefox 2.0.
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06-05-07 / 10:53 PM : New LED MacBook Pro (cjed)
Apple today updated the Macbook Pro line. The 15,4 inch model features a LED backlit screen ! Frequencies range from 2,2 to 2,4 Ghz, base memory expands to 2 Go (800 Mhz bus) and the video card is a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT (128 or 256MB, GDDR3 !). Moreover the entry model is only 1899 euros (1999$ !).
Meanwhile the Apple stock reaches 122$ and analysts expect a target price around 140$.
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06-05-07 / 12:18 AM : OpenOffice.org Aqua : prerelease (cjed)
A prerelease of OpenOffice.org Aqua is finally available (PowerPC, Intel). It still has many bugs and user interface elements are not yet finalized, as the work was focused on non visible parts.
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06-04-07 / 11:33 PM : iPhone : 3 stunning ads (cjed)
Apple now provides 3 videos (ads) of the iPhone that are even more outstanding than what we saw during the January Macworld. All is on track to put Microsoft's Surface concept to a shame, as it isn't yet finalized, is ten times more expensive and isn't a handled device.
The iPhone will ship June, 29 in US.

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06-04-07 / 10:04 PM : D5 : Steve Jobs and Bill Gates video (cjed)
Apple provides on its site at download (through iTunes) the video (or audio track) of the D5 : All Things Digital conference.
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06-03-07 / 05:55 PM : Nexuiz 2.3 : faster and better rendering (cjed)
A new 2.3 version of the famous online multiplayer game Nexuiz is available. The engine has reveived an overhaul and performances are then greatly enhanced (50 to 500% depending from the conditions). Rendering is also far more better (sharper effects, higher res textures). With the new included maps it now weights 273 Mo.
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06-03-07 / 05:39 PM : ITMS non DRM songs marked (cjed)
The new DRM-free iTMS content may include markers in files, allowing to retreive buyer's login, and then preventing illegally spread of music. This solution is more acceptable (reencoding would erase the marker but also drastically lower the quality), but we wonder how long it will take to remove these metadata from files.
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06-03-07 / 05:21 PM : Youtube now on AppleTV (cjed)
Apple announced this week a partnership with Youtube, for retreiving directly youtube videos on the AppleTV (by category, popularity, rating, etc.). A few hundred videos are yet available (have been reencoded in H264 format), the full videos library migration should be complete this fall.
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06-02-07 / 04:02 PM : Safari : 5% share (cjed)
A study from Net Applications states Safari browser share are 5% in may (3,5% last year), Firefox is more or less 14% (75% for IE), and considering Firefox is also used on mac... Other browsers each represents less than 1%.
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06-01-07 / 11:37 PM : Paralells Desktop 3.0 : 3D support ! (cjed)
Macnn reported that Paralells Software finally presented Desktop 3.0, that brings support for 3D acceleration (DirectX and OpenGL) ! It is the release candidate, the software being in final beta stage. Among new features are also state save (and rollback), access to OSX from Windows, Linux integration, files access out of the virtualizer, better perfomances and sound.
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