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| 08-30-05 / 02:12 PM : All particular stuff you do (cjed) |
| To go further with "about what friends do", i invite you to post in comments the urls of your sites/blogs, in order to add them in the Links section. You can also speak about any of your original activities : art (draw, painting... music), "exotic" sport, book. |
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| 08-29-05 / 08:33 PM : Rio stops mp3 players (cjed) |
| Rio stops production of mp3 players, due to to iPod supremacy. After september, 30, only support will be provided. If we consider that Apple's competitors on the online music market are yet unable to beat the ITMS, we can dream about the success of upcoming MacIntel, PC compatibles. Personnaly i disliked the Rio players appearance, their size, and was sceptic concerning the audio quality of their D/A converters. |
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| 08-25-05 / 11:05 AM : 4 new sample songs (cjed) |
| Here are 4 new sample songs from the Library (mp3 256 kb). These songs have been remixed in 2004 (orginal mix from the JV880 dubbed with a new mix from the XV5050). (These songs are copyrighted. They have been deposited at the Syndicat National des Auteurs Compositeurs) Dynamic (1998) remix 2004 Emotional (1997) remix 2004 Expect (1997) remix 2004 Tendance (1998) remix 2004 |
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| 08-20-05 / 12:58 AM : ATI Radeon 9600 Pro Mac & PC compatible (cjed) |
| Ati ships a Mac and PC compatible version of its Radeon 9600 pro. This 256 MB card is priced 199$. Surely a good addition for an old G4, as the 9800 pro (275 euros) requires a G5, and the 9600 Pro is compatible with Core Image and Quartz 2D Extreme (for an incredible boost in display). Finally the 9600 Pro is able to operate with the Apple 30" LCD display. On the other hand the 9000 Pro (installed by default in G4 MDD) is sold 125 euros, and it does not manage these technologies. |
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| 08-19-05 / 01:04 AM : Full Iridium theme for Tiger (cjed) |
| Sagefire.org provides a macosx theme, named Iridium, that applies to all windows (including Finder and others applications) the aspect introduced by Tiger in the Preferences panel. I like it better than the iTunes appearance that spreaded in all OSX since Panther. The theme can be installed using ThemeChanger or ShapeShifter. |
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| 08-16-05 / 11:31 PM : A map of the Paris's subway for the iPod (cjed) |
 The famous iPodGeneration site unveiled a map of Paris's subway for the iPod photo and new iPods. An overall picture presents the zones, that are clickable (selection through the well), and lead to a detailed view (zoomed view).s |
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| 08-16-05 / 02:25 AM : My 7 Symphonic Orchestra demos online (cjed) |
| I finally ended up with publishing on the dedicated soundsonline forum my seven demos made with EastWest/Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Gold. It is there. I also decided to add a link to my first rock/pop song made entirerly with Kontakt 2, MK2Chorus (not easy because for me these samples aren't so punchy and then it takes a long time for ideas to surface). |
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| 08-15-05 / 03:23 AM : Syndication : RSS export (cjed) |
| For those who don't like the greys colors on the site... a new link allows to retrieve news as an RSS flow (in english or french, according to the mode currently in use). Then a resume can be viewed in your prefered RSS news reader : look how it renders in the great NetNewsWire or the famous Safari RSS from Tiger. |
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| 08-13-05 / 12:35 AM : Account creation (cjed) |
| Sign in is now managed automatically (email validation), through a link below the login area. It does not give access to compositions however (requires a separate account on the Darwin Streaming Server). The language is now defaulted to english. |
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| 08-11-05 / 01:16 AM : Site referenced by Yahoo, Stats (cjed) |
| Google took few weeks to refer the site, starting march. Four months later it finally appears in Yahoo search engine, with a higher number of incoming links (including my CV, at rank number one). I would like to thank Peeyo for having posted a link from his own site (i did the same in my Links-->Site design heading). After few months the popularity of the site is surprinsing, 1200 visits and close to 50 000 hits, including 5 percents from US, and some percents from other european countries. This is why i started translating the news last days. All of this without substantial work to progress in the ranks (except writing many articles, but outgoing links count less in the algorithm used). Finally thanks to Vincent for having posted many comments and having collaborated to writing news. |
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| 08-09-05 / 11:48 PM : OpenGL 2 / Direct3D : the last fight (cjed) |
| While Silicon Graphics and the OARB have finally ratified the OpenGL 2.0 specifications (and his shading scripting language), Microsoft drops a bomb announcing that Windows Vista will not support OpenGL natively. In fact the instructions will be emulated through Direct3D equivalent APIs, that will affect considerably the performances. Worse, 3D softwares, if used in window mode (ie not fullscreen) won't be able to use OpenGL simultaneously with the OS graphic effects ! So Microsoft is pushing PC developpers to their limits, forcing them to use Direct3D over OpenGL. Besides, in the macworld, MacOSX supports 77% of OpenGL 2.0 (and 100% of OpenGL 1.x) APIs at this time. |
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| 08-09-05 / 11:21 PM : What if Apple had a plan under the hoods (cjed) |
| Some people (including John Dvorak in a recent article) think that the Intel chip preventing OSX from running on regular PCs, is a lure. And that Apple will, shortly after Mactel ship, release OSX on all PCs. What about the Sony announce of willing to use OSX on the Playstation (yes, OSX works on Cell, indeed assertions from Apple that these chips are too specialized to run a complex OS). Recent co-working between Apple and Sony (video, etc.) leads to the idea that all is tied : Apple would fight Microsoft (its historical ennemy) on the PC front, while Sony would take care of the console market to push away Microsoft's Xbox (and IBM would, indirectly, participate). What if the three companies had made a secret agreement to end up with the Microsoft era ? In fact, after his victory against cancer, perhaps Jobs thought he has only a single life, and that it is time to compensate mistakes made in the past.s |
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| 08-07-05 / 06:21 PM : Site internationalized (cjed) |
| The site is now also available in english (switch using links above login area). Recent news will be translated further, work in progress. |
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| 08-04-05 / 10:59 PM : Reference Portal site (RSS agregate) (cjed) |
| We knew RSS flows container sites in the mac community (like macsurfer.com), then we'll have to count on newsvortex, a french site very interesting (like a portlet view). It covers all computing media (mac, pc, console, games, hardware, etc.) and provides a nice price comparator. |
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| 08-03-05 / 09:24 PM : Apple Mighty Mouse (cjed) |
 As says Jacqui Cheng of Arstechnica, "Unless you've been stuck in an elevator for the past 24 hours, you've heard that Apple has released a multi-button mouse called the Mighty Mouse". In his very detailed review he reassures that there is no risks of intempestives right clicks, as left click has priority over right click (in terms of surface covered). And with defaults preferences the left and right click actions are identical, so the user experience is the same as with the classic Pro Mouse.A settings pannel allows to map various actions to the twos lateral buttons, and to the scroll bar, such as controlling Expose or Dashboard. Triggering of the buttons is followed by generated sounds (from a small internal pizzo speaker), that enhances the feed-back, and the scroll bar not only allows to scroll vertically, but also horizontally (on OSX only), and even in diagonal. Finally the scroll bar is clickable. |
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| 08-01-05 / 01:19 AM : Windows InstallaVista Beta 1 (cjed) |
| The first beta version of Vista, alias Longhorn (such a name change that caused so many problems at Microsoft - because this name was ever used by another company), has been sent to developpers (the final release is programmed for 2006). We can ever found a detailed
review. Vista adds a new search engine alla Spotlight (slower, not as smart or elegant), a column browser that tends to immitate the one in MacOSX, a very identical organisation of preferences, some ideas taken from OSX for the interface : dynamic shadows, transparency, pulsating windows buttons when cursor comes above... Well, as usual with Microsoft it is not good looking, and there doesn't seem to be a mere composition engine under the hoods (like Quartz Extreme 2D). We can reasonably say that, in spite of its billions, Microsoft didn't even caught up MacOS X beta (2000) in terms of interface quality and frameworks complexity. The best of the "show", the menu bar, putted below the navigation tabs in IE 7 ! |
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