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| 01-30-07 / 09:15 PM : Microsoft : security is his Troyan Horse ? (cjed) |
| Macbidouille reported this funny joke (sorry if it wasn't...) about VISTA description on the FNAC site : security might be the Troyan horse of Microsoft (instead fighting horse...) ! Hopefully it has been fixed since (but not the price, three times more expansive than OSX !). |
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| 01-30-07 / 09:05 PM : Apple : still the company to defeat ? (cjed) |
| Macosrumors makes the point about lawsuits against Apple in a two pages news. It seems the energy developed by jaleous concurrents to defeat Apple hasn't be seen before : they can't stop taking profit from Apple buzz and money. It could even have consequences on a not yet unveiled secret product that Apple plans to introduce this year. Meanwhile Microsoft grabs money back to compensate from Europe lawsuits, thanks to anormaly high VISTA pricing here, and is even granted for... |
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| 01-26-07 / 11:43 PM : Leopard : DVD player and Blu-Ray (cjed) |
| Macosrumors gives some precisions on yet known Leopard new features (as the new DVD Player), but none regarding secret features. We can also see some screenshots here. Meanwhile Macworld speaks about VISTA and games, and Apple response. |
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| 01-23-07 / 10:39 PM : New IBM - Motorola collaboration (cjed) |
| Yesterday we learnt that the processor onboarded on the iphone is an Xscale (derived from ARM), although Intel participated on the initial design. Today was announced a new collaboration between Freescale (Motorola) and IBM. It is about joining skills and production facilities to develop 45nm technology, and improve CMOS and SOI. |
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| 01-22-07 / 11:52 PM : SmoothStab and Chris real sax : collaboration (cjed) |
 Chris (alias fongi) from soundsonline forums proposed its help on the song SmoothStab : he worked the last days to add a live sax (real) part. With his agreement here is the final mix :SmoothStab_sax.mp3 |
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| 01-18-07 / 11:48 PM : Apple TV processor (cjed) |
| From AppleInsider we learn that the Intel processor used in the Apple TV might be an old Pentium-M (pre Core Duo) at 1 Ghz (350 Mhz bus, 2 Mo cache), and that the video card may be an NVidia with 64 Mo of DDR2. It might onboard 256 Mo main memory (DDR2 400 Mhz). |
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| 01-18-07 / 10:16 PM : Apple : record results (cjed) |
| Apple results for last quarter are stunning for the last quarter : more than 7 billions $ of sales, 1 billion $ of net result (+75%), 50% sales increasing for the ipod compared with the same time last year (+65% for MacBook), a net margin that grows from 27 to 31% (without mentioning the even greater margin with the iphone when it will be released). |
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| 01-17-07 / 08:54 PM : 203.145.131.158 stop spam (cjed) |
| The famous spammer (operates on many sites) is back from another IP (after having been blocked probably). |
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| 01-16-07 / 10:35 PM : GString : full XP strings impro (cjed) |
| XP GStrings uses a new strings multi made recently with Gold Pro XP. It's a simple long live played song (6 mn) without any additional instruments : XP_GStrings.mp3 |
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| 01-13-07 / 05:15 PM : The iPhone name : Apple Phone ? (cjed) |
| Cisco finally decided to sue Apple for using the name iPhone, that they some years ago deposited. The facts are that Apple, with the imac in 98 and its iApps later, initiated this naming scheme. And a lot of opportunist companies deposited close names, planning to sell these later to Apple... Now that Apple surprised these bad competitors renaming the iTV Apple TV, we can easily expect that it will be the same with the iPhone (that will not ship until june), that is Apple will rename it Apple Phone... On macosrumors we indeed learned just before the Macwolrd that the iPhone name wasn't really a problem... As a proof, we can look at the iPhone case : as with the Apple TV there isn't any mention or name except the Apple logo... We will see next if competitors try to use the Apple trademark !s |
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| 01-12-07 / 08:58 PM : Macplus : review of Parallels Desktop (cjed) |
| Macplus provides an interesting review of Parallels Desktop, where we finally learn how it compares with bootcamp in a graphic way : only 8 Mo from the VRAM can be allocated to the virtualization system, that is even an old Quake III cannot work. However it is fully compatible with 2D (nominal speed), and allows seemless integration of Windows applications in OSX windows containers. |
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| 01-10-07 / 09:32 PM : Pictures of the iPhone (cjed) |
| Engadget provides many screenshots of the iPhone taken at the Moscon Center. The finition is great, without mentioning the totally new patented multi touch technology, sensitive to many places at a time, and using a hard surface (uncommon).s |
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| 01-10-07 / 09:27 PM : The Apple TV handles H264 1280*720 (cjed) |
| On the Apple TV specifications page we learn that it finally supports H264 format up to 1280 * 720 at 24 fps (progressive scan), that is impressive (max resolution found on today high end video-projectors). |
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| 01-09-07 / 10:03 PM : Apple TV and iPhone : that's all ? (cjed) |
 Apple finally presented only two new products : Apple TV that we already knew (is that really usefull to pay 299$ for a 720*480 video system when VLC, Free and my Epson projector allow 854*480 resolution since 3 years - and there is much better now in that domain). The iPhone on the contrary is really revolutionnary, futurist (see the videos here).Then the target is the Zune. The iPhone brings a stunning touchscreen (200 patents for the whole device), uses OSX !, provides Dashboard and iTunes like user interface, with same navigation system through music albums, fliping windows, automatic display mode switch thanks to motion sensors, extreme display resolution (160ppp), allows to send emails freely through Yahoo (exit SMS...), Safari browser with zoom (from OSX), a GPS. However we will have to wait the last quarter here in France, and the price (499$) will not compete with ipods (for now). Nothing new about Leopard so (expected in june...) nor on new macs (new Mac Pro were planned). But the iPhone is a new concept (PSP-Zune-futurist assistant and mobile) and we can hope a new show dedicated to macs before spring, a little before Leopard ships. The wait to the later could lead to think that Apple has been impressed by VISTA, or they want to prevent Microsoft from taking new ideas for the planned VISTA update (or Apple is not impressed and takes all the time they want). Unusual in a keynote where the share tends to go lower (before rising), this time it goes up from 85 to more than 92$.s |
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| 01-09-07 / 01:11 AM : NeoOffice 2.1 announced : OpenXML, VBA (cjed) |
 A new version of NeoOffice, 2.1, is expected next spring. It will notably bring compatibility with Microsoft OpenXML proprietary format, and VBA scripts from Excel documents. |
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| 01-09-07 / 01:01 AM : Review : Mac OS X Shines / VISTA (cjed) |
| Just in time, the magazine Information Week provides a long review titled Mac OS X Shines In Comparison With Windows Vista. And it is about Tiger (OSX 10.4), the now old system ! |
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| 01-09-07 / 12:45 AM : Today the Macworld day ! (cjed) |
 We will know this evening (7pm Paris time) announces from Apple that should revolutionize 2007... or not (but Apple can't deceive after having put so much expectations with the message on their site). It should first be final fight against VISTA. Macbidouille reported some new infos about Leopard that should bring Sun ZFS filesystem. But the great thing will be assurely the new OSX interface (50 percent of this 10.5 version new features are unknown at this time).We also expect the usual keynote stream in mpeg4 HD. And why not an interface similar to that ? |
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| 01-06-07 / 02:28 PM : 220.226.63.254 stop spam ! (cjed) |
| Recently i started receiving spam (messages including medical commercial or fake links) sent by the send message page of the site. I added an image verification (as for comments) to prevent bots, an email field and also ip logging. That stopped for a while but i just received a new spam, that is the message was sent manually on the site. The IP is 220.226.63.254 (email is probably fake or not the real source). Searching WhoisIP, it originated from an indian company, Reliance Infocom Ltd (see Whois entry). If it doesn't stop i will have to send a notification to antiabuse.support@relianceada.com. After verification this spammer operates on many sites (is identified so) and traceroute command doesn't help much. |
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| 01-06-07 / 01:43 AM : A few Ajax technology in the site (cjed) |
| The display of last twelve news on the homepage now uses Ajax technology to retreive the news content selected when clicking on its link (sends an asynchronous request - XMLHttpRequest with a handler - and draws / hides the div using DHTML). Many news can be opened simultaneously, without hanging the browser (very fast indeed) and without any flicker effect so. With HTTP 1.1 only two requests (ports) can be sent at a time, so as to prevent servers from heavy load.s |
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| 01-04-07 / 10:56 PM : Theocacao : develop for Leopard only (cjed) |
 The site Theocacao (that is looking good moreover) explains in an article why developers should make applications targeted to Leopard only : availability of Objective-C 2.0, new Cocoa APIs, etc. In fact many seem to have taken this way. |
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| 01-03-07 / 09:08 PM : The Intertainer : Microsoft and patents (cjed) |
| Apple, Google et Napster would be sued by an unknown company (Intertainer, financed by Microsoft and Intel !) for having used a patent about "digital entertainment" distribution over internet (that is music, movies, games, all). The patent was issued in 2005, so many years after the ITMS... The goal is obvious... but it will not prevent Microsoft from looking ridiculus in less than a week during the january Macworld (tuesday, 9) and the inevitable VISTA / Leopard comparison. |
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| 01-02-07 / 10:49 PM : Welcome to 2007 (cjed) |
 That is with Apple's words "The first 30 years were just the begining. Welcome to 2007" that I wish to all visitors here an happy new year. Apple seems commited to do the best for 2007, and finally celebrate these 30 years (the anniversary was in fact last spring). |
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