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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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| 06-26-07 / 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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| 06-24-07 / 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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| 06-21-07 / 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 / 12:04 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 / 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 / 02:44 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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| 06-13-07 / 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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| 06-07-07 / 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 / 10:53 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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| 06-04-07 / 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. s |
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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 / 05:39 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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