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| 05-31-06 / 08:24 PM : Digidesign ProTools for Intel mac (cjed) |
| Digidesign finally provides (for Digidesign audio systems) updates of its Protools sequencers that bring Mac Intel support. New versions, Pro Tools 7.1.1 & Pro Tools M-Powered 7.1.1, are available here. |
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| 05-31-06 / 08:16 PM : Garritan : free online orchestration lessons (cjed) |
| As reported Harmony-central, the orchestral samples editor Garritan provides in its forums free interactive lessons about orchestration (texts and videos), based upon the Principles of Orchestration from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. These are available at this time : Lesson 1 - GENERAL REVIEW - Strings & Woodwinds, Lesson 2 - GENERAL REVIEW - Brass, Percussion & Other Instruments, Lesson 3 - MELODY - Strings - Melody in Stringed Instruments, Lesson 4 - MELODY - Strings - Grouping in Unison. |
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| 05-31-06 / 07:48 PM : I, Woz : book preview (cjed) |
 Steven Wozniak autobiography I, Woz, expected to ship next november, has been previewed by Guy Kawaski, through a copy given by co-author Gina Smith. He gives his impressions about the book on his blog. Finally he advices all computing engineers to read it. The book seems well written, with an original approach, not strategic focused.Perhaps a good idea as a book after the great book about Georges Lucas, The man behind the myth. |
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| 05-31-06 / 12:47 AM : DirectGuitar : 9 Gb sample library (cjed) |
 DirectGuitar includes (89$) 9 Gb of electric guitar samples recorded at 24 bit 96 Khz, for Kontakt 2 and Gigastudio 3. It provides 5 pickup selector positions, amp simulation, Jazz position, and allows to create an infinite number of sound variations. Stunning Audio and video demos (among these the famous song The Wall) are available here.s |
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| 05-31-06 / 12:32 AM : Open Fire : freeware multiplayer game (cjed) |
 BlueTorch Studios (cool name !) provides at download a freeware game, Open Fire, a military shoot them up based upon the Unity engine. It will also soon be available as a Dashboard widget, and will allow through a cross platform web Player multiplayer game. |
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| 05-31-06 / 12:24 AM : Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa demo (cjed) |
 Macgamesfiles provides a demo of Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa, a sim game where we control ecosystem (by feeding species and managing resources) of African animals (simulation is possible). |
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| 05-31-06 / 12:16 AM : IMG : Quake 4 Review (cjed) |
 InsideMacGames provides a full review of Quake 4 on mac (Universal Binary application). It looks like a good game, with great cinematic scenes that cut action, only multiplayer mode is not as fun as expected. |
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| 05-31-06 / 12:11 AM : Apple ready to develop games for ipod ? (cjed) |
| IMG reported an article from Gamespot about C/C++ developers being recruited by Apple, that could integrate a game development team targeted to ipod. |
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| 05-29-06 / 11:03 PM : Original Starwars 4/5/6 september 13 (cjed) |
| After fans pressure, Lucasfilms accepted to ship next september a limited edition of Episodes 4/5/6 dvd set including original versions of the three films as bonus. So, unuseful added scenes and modifications (among these the very disturbing saturation of colors - hopefully that can be fixed by lowering the color setting on the DVD Player) will be gone, and french people will benefit from original french audiotracks. That is here at DVDfr.com. Finally that will make more money for the movie editor, and besides they will ship their new game, LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy ! |
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| 05-29-06 / 01:24 AM : Full IMP : live strings impro (cjed) |
 based upon a 4mn strings ensemble impro, FullIMP includes some percussions and vintage choirs : FullIMP.mp3 |
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| 05-28-06 / 10:45 AM : Paris : Salon de la musique is back (cjed) |
| Finally, 12 years later, the french Salon de la musique is back at Paris, Porte de Versailles, in its original layout. It will occupy the Hall 3, at least as large as the Hall 2 where Apple Expo stands place. We hope we will be able to test instruments easily, as before. The dates are september 9-12. |
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| 05-27-06 / 03:21 PM : Lugaru 2 : engine progress (cjed) |
 IMG made the point about Lugaru 2, through the game editor blog. We see illustrations of enhancements in the 3D engine. That is here. |
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| 05-26-06 / 06:49 PM : ARPDiv : 80's synths (cjed) |
| Made with 80's sounds (among others, the Alesis HR16 drumbox), ARPDiv is a simple arrangement : ARPDiv.mp3 |
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| 05-26-06 / 12:13 AM : Bullet Candy (cjed) |
 Bullet Candy is an Asteroids like shoot them up, colors brillant. It is here. |
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| 05-26-06 / 12:09 AM : Divx 6.5 codec & player (cjed) |
| Divx 6.5 on mac is available here. The free version operates for 6 months (may be reinstalled, or replaced by a future update). |
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| 05-25-06 / 04:00 PM : Vienna Symphonic Library : new demos (cjed) |
| New VSL instruments demos are available on the editor site : Solo Strings, Chamber Strings, Orchestral Strings... We will listen again to Platoon movie music (Orchestral Strings I section, Adagio For Strings). |
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| 05-25-06 / 03:39 PM : Dashcode (cjed) |
 Macgeneration reported that new MacBook include an application named Dashcode, bundled with the developers tools. It allows creation of Dashboard widgets (easier than with XCode). Screenshots are available here. |
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| 05-25-06 / 02:07 AM : Majorque /3 (cjed) |
| To complete photos, here are links on some images from Coves del drach, as shots were forbidden during the visit : Official site More photos Some 360° panoramas from various places in Majorque : Low quality panoramas choosen from a map Panoramas search (type Mallorca) Commercial DVD featuring Majorque panoramas (sample : Palma Cathedrale) Finally, a link to free downloadable books from Georges Sand (among others A winter at Majorque). |
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| 05-25-06 / 12:24 AM : OSX kernel / Linux : end of false rumors (cjed) |
| Macgeneration pointed an article that carify false rumors of OSX Mach kernel being slower than the Linux one. We finally knew that Mysql based performance test showing poor performance on Mac were biased, and for sure people at Apple know what they do... |
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| 05-24-06 / 09:23 PM : Arturia Analog Factory (cjed) |
 The famous french company Arturia presents Analog Factory, a virtual plugin based on their acclamed analog modeling synthesis, that provides 2000 analog type sounds, derived from various instruments models : minimoog V, Moog Modular V, CS-80V, ARP 2600 V, Prophet V and Prophet VS.
It offers 32 voices of polyphony, and will be out at july 2006, for 249$/199 euros. |
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| 05-22-06 / 10:24 PM : Realsamples Harpsichord (cjed) |
 Realsamples presents Harpsichord, a samples library including harpsichord notes sampled multiple times to catch various resonances, and so make it sound less still. Stunning demos are available on the page. |
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| 05-22-06 / 02:20 AM : PMotif : explore (cjed) |
| Sarting from a simple piano theme, here is PMotif, a World song : PMotif.mp3 |
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| 05-21-06 / 11:12 PM : Dim3 : free game creation (cjed) |
 Dim3 is a free 3D game creation environment (whereas Quake3 engine based mods cannot be sold without a licence). To use Dim3 you have to make your own resources (textures, sounds, images). It is here. |
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| 05-21-06 / 10:48 PM : Professor Fizzwizzle (cjed) |
| Macgamezone presents Professor Fizzwizzle, an arcade/reflexion shareware game with nice graphics. A demo is available. |
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| 05-21-06 / 09:48 PM : The Knights of the net (cjed) |
| A surprise looking at the Google Analytics stats, some access percents are from a site named... Les chevaliers du net ! In fact it is about mid-age games. And the music at the homepage is SO HornStack Epic, that was well received at soundsonline. |
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| 05-21-06 / 09:30 PM : FreeBox v5/HD TV (cjed) |
 Macbidouille pointed a detailed review of the FreeBox HD at PCInpact. HD content broadcast programs are close to non existent, and it requires a very expensive HD TV set... |
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| 05-20-06 / 12:16 PM : CodeWeavers CrossOver vs BootCamp & Parallels (cjed) |
| We now have at our disposal 3 solutions to run Windows applications on Intel Macs : BootCamp (restart needed, better preformances - better for games - but more painful, more risky because of virus, needs a copy of Windows and a dedicated partition), Parallels Workstation (easier to manage - no restart, safer, also require a Windows licence plus the software cost, few informations about games performances) and CodeWeavers CrossOver (doesn't require buying Windows but less compatible, notably the Windows applications instalation procedure is made out of Windows, because the software is aimed to replace Windows...). These three solutions - not finalised (alpha for CrossOver, beta for BootCamp, Release Candidate 1 for Workstation) - are presented in this article. To note, Windows images coming from VirtualPC do not allow booting over BootCamp. |
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| 05-19-06 / 10:04 PM : Eve Online : stunning trailers (cjed) |
 Eve Online is a Homeworld like game, but online only, with a 30 days playing time fee of 19,95 euros. The downloadable client application is 500 Mo average. The new trailers available here (.wmv, install Flip4Mac on OSX) show why it wons so many awards, and is now the reference for that category. |
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| 05-19-06 / 09:33 PM : AGON demos (cjed) |
| Demos for the 3 AGON episodes are available on the editor site. They weight between 200 and 300 Mo, however thanks to the great server bandwith (up to 1000 ko/s !) it takes less than 5 minutes ! These are full versions, that play in shareware mode without a registration key. |
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| 05-19-06 / 07:46 PM : Rumors : Cubase SX4 (cjed) |
| Audiofanzine reported that an internal note from Steinberg would have been spreaded through internet, that discloses the features of next Cubase SX version. |
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| 05-19-06 / 01:52 PM : Apple Store Cube on Fifth Avenue opened (cjed) |
 As reported Macbidouille, Apple Insider published first photos from the new Apple Store at the Fifth Avenue (Manhattan), notably its giant transparent Cube, that demanded reworking after S. Jobs visited the work. That is here.MAJ : Apple now provides photos and videos of first opening hours (click on the choosen hour on the timeline). |
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| 05-19-06 / 01:02 PM : Creative : Apple strikes back the looser (cjed) |
| This week the small mp3 portable players manufacturer Creative (value of less than 500 M$, whereas Apple has 9 billions in cash - not mentioning its value...) sued the later about a patent, surprinsingly desposited last summer, 5 years after the introduction of the first ipod... Even without considering the fact that with this patent all music softwares are illegal, we must remind the column based navigation system inherited from MacOSX (2000), that came from NextStep (late 80's), and even from the Appe Lisa (1982) ! The true reason is that Creative needs money : its share lost 25 percents last three months (ipod success is lasting long), so they need attention and cash to try to catch up with the leader. The problem for them is that they will lose in every case : through bankrupkt if Apple decides to make the procedure last, or after the lawsuit Apple deposited some days after against Creative, saying Creative violated 4 of Apple's patents. Even when looking at this picture from a Creative player, the copy of ipod photo interface is obvious. But finally, most important is, as Microsoft has a lot of problems trying to copy the first MacOSX user interface from 2000, Creative can't catch up in terms of design, software and audio quality for its portable players. |
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| 05-16-06 / 02:01 AM : AS Balade : an asian romantic (cjed) |
| Here is a new entry in the romantic area, with an asian touch, AS Balade : AS_Balade.mp3 s |
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| 05-16-06 / 01:56 AM : DarkBalade comments at soundsonline (cjed) |
| Here are some nice comments at soundsonline.com, about the new DarkBalade song. |
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| 05-15-06 / 12:54 AM : Nexuiz review (cjed) |
 IMG provides a complete review of Nexuiz, the famous free FPS (GPL licence). As said before, it is based upon an enhanced version of the Quake 1 engine, with added modern techniques. In some aspects it reminds the original Unreal Tournament or Quake 3. |
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| 05-13-06 / 12:15 AM : Pirates : new soundtrack clue (cjed) |
| Here is Pirates, a new soundtrack clue quickly made : Pirates.mp3 |
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| 05-12-06 / 12:51 AM : Edirol Ships The R-09 Recorder (cjed) |
 Roland (through Edirol) now ships the R-09, the high end model of its digital portable recorders. It brings 24 bits uncompressed audio (WAV 44,1 or 48 khz) or MP3 (320 kbits max), on SD card (64 Mo card included). Half the size of the R-1, its battery has a longer life. Its integrated microphone (stereo) is a high end condenser type, and can be replaced with an external microphone, or line input, or USB communication. All this for 400 $.s |
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| 05-11-06 / 09:13 PM : AGON : The Mysterious Codex (cjed) |
 IMG presents AGON, a Myst like game composed by 3 chapters (London Scene, Adventures in Lapland and Pirates of Madagascar). It brings very good graphics that can sometimes be stunning (and that are less static than in the first Myst episode), and the audio track is great (orchestral music, very well done characters dubbing). |
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| 05-11-06 / 08:40 PM : Ventrilo for Mac (cjed) |
| Macgamezone announced the avaibility for Mac of Ventrilo, a vocal communication system aimed at network games, like the now standard Teamspeak (TeamSpeex on Mac). Ventrilo would bring better audio quality, however it is still in prototype stage. |
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| 05-10-06 / 09:36 PM : DADVSI : interoperability article removed (cjed) |
| During the review of the DADVSI law at the french Sénat, the article upon required strong interoperability has been removed. That is a victory for Apple, that consolidates its leadership. In fact, Fnac, Virgin and Sony Music did worse, as their services aren't compatibles with Macs.s |
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| 05-10-06 / 01:06 AM : Quake 2 & Quake 3 updates (cjed) |
| IMG reported that updates of Quake 2 (Universal Binary) and Quake 3 are available. |
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| 05-10-06 / 12:59 AM : UT2007 interview (cjed) |
 Ign.com provides a detailed interview from creators of UT2007 (the famous Mark Reign, and Jeff Morris) of Epic. |
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| 05-10-06 / 12:43 AM : Bungie Music Contest (cjed) |
| Bungie started a Music Contest, aimed at rewarding the best videogame music submission (that should be inspirated from Bungie's games). They didn't mention what advents from the legal aspect (cease of licensing rights ?), nor the exact amount of the gains. |
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| 05-10-06 / 12:34 AM : Halo 3 trailer (cjed) |
 Bungie just released on its site a trailer of Halo 3, expected on Xbox360 during 2007. If the video doesn't start (150 Mo in QT Large), you should try to download it before (i reached 250 ko/s !). As stunning as the Halo 1 trailer unveiled in 1999 at the Apple Expo (initially targeted only for Mac, before Microsoft buyed Bungie). |
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| 05-09-06 / 11:34 PM : The Afa against the DADVSI law (cjed) |
| The Afa (association des fournisseurs d'accès), expressed strong reserves against the DADVSI law : difficulty to filter ports, consequence on the quality of service, absence of discrimination among sharing softwares. |
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| 05-09-06 / 11:12 PM : Music : donationware (cjed) |
 The site Génération Nouvelles Technologies presents an interesting idea, a donationware payment like system for musicians on internet. With this principle there is 3 possibilities when downloading a song : pay nothing, pay immediately or pay after what you want. In Canada, a singer would have tried that system and would have gained an average 1,14 $ per song, much more than from a recording company (1 to 2 % of the profits).Would be cool if integrated to musique-libre.org ? :-) |
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| 05-09-06 / 12:07 AM : Beattles Apple Corp looses against Apple Computer (cjed) |
| As expected, Macbidouille reported that Beattles's Apple Corp. editor looses against Apple Computer (Apple Corp. said Apple hadn't the right to sell music on the internet, using its trademark Apple). Even the logos aren't the same... and Apple Corp. is anecdotic compared with the giant Apple Computer. |
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| 05-07-06 / 02:24 PM : Encryted BitTorrent client in Leopard (cjed) |
| Macosrumors says that Apple planned to add a system level encrypted BitTorrent client to Leopard, in order to improve further system updates like tasks. |
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| 05-07-06 / 02:15 PM : OSX 10.5 Leopard : advanced multithreading (cjed) |
| As reported from Macosrumors, Apple worked with Intel to improve multitasking in MacOSX, using the new features from the Intel core chips. The Mach kernel always uses the porwerful symetric multiprocessing principle, however beyond four processor cores the number of application threads to manage may be too small to fill all of the available processor units... So the new mean will divide further the processes, even if they weren't a lot of multitasking coded in the programs. |
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| 05-05-06 / 01:01 PM : Steve Jobs : show on the City Council (cjed) |
 Macgeneration reported a funny video, where we see Steve Jobs audited at the Cupertino City Council, asking help for building a second Apple campus, arguing its company pays the highest duty here.Less star system than a real show, but always this charistmatic behaviour, as if he supposed the video would make his way... |
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| 05-03-06 / 01:46 PM : Windows VISTA : second delay (cjed) |
| Microsoft announced a second delay in the release of Windows VISTA (3 months more). Finally the product should ship two years after the initial planned date... and this one won't reach the richness of the first MacOSX version from 2000. Meanwhile Apple will soon be ready to ship Leopard (OSX 10.5). |
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| 05-03-06 / 12:00 AM : Majorque Pictures /2 (cjed) |
 The second part of pictures (optical) from Majorque is available. |
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| 05-02-06 / 05:25 PM : Simple piano balade (cjed) |
| Made using the patch DarkBalade from the Complete Piano card, here is a new simple melody : DarkBalade.mp3 |
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| 05-02-06 / 02:35 PM : New Apple ads (cjed) |
| Apple now shows on its site new ads they are using on US TV spots. There is a lot of argumentation. |
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| 05-02-06 / 12:49 AM : Majorque Pictures /1 (cjed) |
 First pictures from Majorque are available in the section Images-->Photos, that is here. They were taken from the K750i as a complement and represent less than a quarter of the overall (optical and digital). There is also some videos. |
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| 05-01-06 / 10:21 PM : Jets'n'Guns : shoot them up (cjed) |
 IMG presents Jets'n'Guns Arcade, a shoot them up (shareware) developed by the czech editor Rake In Grass. A demo and screenshots are available on their site. |
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| 05-01-06 / 07:32 PM : Apple and Sun ZFS (cjed) |
| As reported Macnn, Apple may be interested in integrating into OSX the new ZFS filesystem developed by Sun. Based upon a transactionnal object model, it gets rid of old constraints encountered for 20 years, offers a huge performance gain, and adds powerful integrity checks and correction, also being endian scheme independant. |
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| 05-01-06 / 04:33 PM : TO : Crossfire Public Beta 1 (cjed) |
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| 05-01-06 / 04:25 PM : MovieGate 2.03 (cjed) |
| The free DVD authoring software MovieGate (based upon mpeg2enc for mpeg2 encoding) has been updated to version 2.03 (also supports MacIntel). It is here. |
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| 05-01-06 / 03:47 PM : Google SketchUp Free (cjed) |
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| 05-01-06 / 10:21 AM : Luna : free sequencer (cjed) |
 As reported Audiofanzine, a new free sequencer (there isn't so many) is out, Luna Free (limited version of... Luna Unlimited). It is OSX and Windows compatible, and manages midi, audio, up to 4 VST plugins (mono-channels) and 2 effects sends. |
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