Provare per credere.

Naturalmente la cosa funziona anche sui Mac più recenti ma il risultato visivo vi porterà a ripensare l'operazione.

Enjoy :)

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Piccola demo osx orientata sopratutto alla creazione video.

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Sorry today's post is so late, but i had some trouble related to an uninstall of Flyakite OSX. My iertutuil.dll was missing, and I had to make various mods to my Firefox in safe mode before it would run, but it's resolved now.

This is amusing on several levels, not the least of which is the fact that a push like this is roughly a year late. And Vista has turned out to be a fairly nauseating disaster and users are begging for XP to hang around. And Microsoft has actually created a Vista SKU that's a downgrade license to XP but can still be tallied as a Vista sale. Aside from those, yes, Vista's woes are all about insufficient advertising. When in doubt, blame marketing. Is this what happens when Bill is gone?

Some key quips from the AI article:

The company's VP of Vista marketing, Brad Brooks, told attendees at a Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference on Tuesday that the next few months will see a major advertising push that promises to "free the people" through what Vista has to offer and that Microsoft wouldn't take Apple's repeated attacks on Vista reliability without a fight.

Okay Brad. Free the people? Really? Does anyone know what that even means? And what exactly prompted you to start fighting back on Vista's behalf a year into reams of bad press and unprecedented Mac marketshare/mindshare gains?

The people have been freed, and they're making personal technology choices that don't involve Microsoft.

Hate to say this, but I think it's pretty clear Vista's going down without much of a fight. If it weren't, you wouldn't have so much talk about Windows 7 already.

"You thought the sleeping giant was still sleeping, well we woke it up and it's time to take our message forward," Brooks warns Apple. "There's a conversation going on in the marketplace today and it's just plain awful. We've got to get back on the front foot."

My god. Let's see, you have a tired Pearl Harbor cliche, some management horseshit about 'taking a message forward,' a trendy reference to the modern word-of-mouth marketplace where companies don't get to tell us what to think about their products anymore, and finally some more meaningless management speak.

Hey Apple, are you listening? Are you? Well we're sick of your shit! We're sick of Justin Long and John Hodgman! We are gonna place ads, boy, and this here sleeping giant who is, um, no longer sleeping is going to grab a quick coffee and take our message forward! We're going to take it forward right up your ass!

He acknowledges, however, that Vista's rough launch has cost the company significant ground and that the ads will as much be about damage control as touting the brand. In a rare glimpse into Microsoft's own view of the launch, Brooks recognizes that Vista "broke a lot of things" and triggered "a lot of pain" in partners trying to support the newer Windows edition.

Oh, absolutely. I think this is a stellar approach. An OS with an admittedly 'rough start' that 'broke a lot of things' and 'caused a lot of pain' will yield an ad campaign that will be about 'damage control' and 'making up lost ground.'

Nothing like 'touting your brand' when you're already a few miles underwater.

I have an idea, Microsoft. Hear me out. Instead of announcing that you're going to do something, how about you just do it and dispense with the saber-rattling? Because honestly, at this point along the Vista adoption curve, nobody worth his salt is taking you seriously.

The parent process is launchd. I'm using OS X 10.4.11.

I couldn't find any info about it on Goojle or Altavista.

The only thing remotely Mac like in the search results is "ATI ES1000 video controller" but I have a GeForce 6600 in this Mac.

Da venerdì, contemporaneamente all'uscita su mercato dell'Iphone 2.0, i possessori del vecchio modello potranno comunque istallare come free upgrade la nuova versione del sistema operativo. Su wired , la recensione di alcune delle nuove funzionalità.

Project Aims

Create new classes and extend previous project

Tasks

1. In the Terminal cd to an appropriate folder. (In my case 'sprouts' within my 'workspace'. )

2. Enter in the Terminal:

A new folder 'AnotherProject' is created with all the base Sprouts files.

The Terminal output will be listing the files created:

2. cd to the new folder

3. Make a new Class

See as2 bundle on the projectsprouts site.
Enter in the Terminal:

This creates a suit of classes including the MathUtilTest.as Class.
The MathUtil Class is as follows:

class utils.MathUtil {
	public static var linkageId:String = "__Packages.utils.MathUtil";
	public static var classRef:Function = MathUtil;

	public function MathUtil() {
	}

	public static var serializable:Boolean = Object.registerClass(linkageId, classRef);
}

I hope all of you had a great 4th of July weekend, and will continue to read and comment on “Tech Talk” as I get back into the swing of things.

BTW - I might right more on how Leopard has improved my computing experience, but who knows we'll see.

Hackers found a way to bypass the authorization required to make sure that a mac doesn't run on a pc.But hackers have no limits.They managed to bypass it and they did it good.no flaws. except one.

It's too goddamned slow.

Et eller andet spændende er på vej.

Måske.

Der var noget med, at Apple lancerede en ganske kedelig (opdateret?) version af Aperture, eller noget i den stil.
Det var sgu en kedelig opdatering, de lavede af deres store dér...

Nej, giv mig en opdateret MacBook eller MacBook Pro.
Bare gør et eller andet. Fyr op for specs. Fyr ned for priserne.

Tak.

When EFiX first announced a USB device that would easily allow people to install Mac OS X onto PC's using Apple's original discs there was quite a bit of excitement and interest, but when they missed their original release date people got a little concerned.

According to EFiX lead engineer and CEO Vilhelm von Vnukov, things are under control and their V2 device will be released tomorrow with their V1 to follow three or four weeks later.

The V2 device will sell for around $125 US but will initially only be available in Taiwan and Bulgaria.

For more info check out the product pages here.

[Via Engadget]

I got a bit confused with the new way of working with the networking features and I had trouble with getting the applications over from the old machine, or at least until I made use of the Migration assistant wich made it as easy as pie to move things.

I have started to use Identica which is a twitter like thing and seems to work well now that Twitter is not as functional as it was. I have also looked a Plurk and I think another whose name escapes me right now. I will post on all of these as time goes by anyway so that I can build up the links back to my Wizardgold wordpress site that is Wizardgold Blog and Podcast - Betfair Trader. Identi.ca describes itself as a micro blogging site.

If you have not heard it yet don't forget to get the latest podcast downloaded and heard in iTunes. I talk about the good and bad of matched betting. It is the second podcast about matched betting. So have I made money doing it? can you lose money doing it, and what pitfalls are there if any ??

Derided as the inconsequential, annoying little brother of Windows XP, for the longest time it was the great hope for renewed earnings at Microsoft and the next great step in Microsoft's march to world domination.  Except in the 7 or so years it took to get out the door, the rest of the world changed. 

In technology, 7 years is a lifetime.  The Internet grew up all around it. MAC re-emerged as a viable alternative.  Web technology with AJAX and other assorted 'Web 2.0' technology significantly matured to the point browsers and web apps and not trad client apps are where the action is.  Web services paved the way for the rise of "mash-ups"  and added to the decline of the paid software model.  On the horizon, cloud computing and the emergence of websites such as Amazon, eBay and most importantly Google have evolved into 'web platforms' and finally we see focus shifting to mobile devices.  Added to that, the computer market has gone backwards, not forwards as laptop manufacturers have started stressing smaller, lighter (and as a necessity, less powerful) computers.  Not exactly the right conditions for a fatter, more memory, and processor hungry unconnected operating system.

As a product manager at Microsoft in 1998/99, how were you supposed to see all that?  To be fair, the on-premise software model is increasingly looking broken or at best not appropriate in this internetworked world.  The QA cost required to deliver even one incremental feature (at one of the companies I used to work for - one release took 9 weeks of new coding and then 9 months of testing to get out the door) requires product planners to invest in larger more significant releases - 3-5 years between releases.  Except the rate of change and innovation on the Web is accelerating, not staying constant.

The original plan Windows Vista was very ambitious - new kernel, new filesystem called WinFS, new graphics engine called Avalon overlaid with .NET goodness (.NET ultimately being a great MSFT push with much sound and fury ultimately signifying not much...).  It was a "let's pull out the stops", "let's go exponential" type of release.  It was supposed to go out the door in 2004.  While I was a product manager at Pivotal, I used handicap any MSFT release (and consequently the date when we would need to start supporting it) by about 18 months.  For Vista, I guess I was a little too optimistic.

Over time, as the schedule slipped and competitive pressure racheted-up, all the major new components to Vista got cut - first the WinFS, then Avalon, until all we were left with was new core - Vista.  Whoopy-doo.  The problem was not that Microsoft didn't need to refresh the code base - it was it tried to do it all in one swoop adding significant risk to the release - the problem was it didn't really put anything into the release to sell the new OS to users except, as the Economist put it - "a prettier face."  In marketing-speak Vista is all steak and no sizzle.  Except you need sizzle to sell.

Compare Windows Vista to Mac OS which in the 7 years arguably underwent just as significant an amount of change - moving from System 9 to the BSD based OsX - moving from powerPC chips to standard Intel chips and then releasing a number of nice innovations to the UI including widgets et al.  To be fair, because of Apple's closed system stance, it had a lot less legacy software, drivers and hardware to support and bring with it to its new releases.

So where to we go from here? 

Look for MSFT to release smaller, more incremental releases in the future based on the Vista core.  Look for significant investments in usability to bring the UI experience up to MAC standards.  Increasingly it is looking like Vista is the Windows 2000 of its generation which was succeeded by the incrementally better but significantly more accepted Windows XP release.

More troubling is MSFT's Internet strategy from here.  As predicted the browser threat that Gates foresaw back in 1996 came to pass.  Unfortunately it has still not come up with a competitive response to it yet.     Ozzie's Software + Services vision has yet to seriously manifest.   The bigger concern is that by focusing on Windows, whether MSFT is fighting the right battles in this age of the Internet.

Better to take some of those brilliant software engineers and try to redouble its efforts in Windows Mobile where mobile space is still emerging, unconsolidated and next future of computing.

Per usare un file .qtz come screensaver aprire la sezione screensaver di OSX e trascinare dentro il file.

Ci sono anche dei file .qtz VJ che se lanciati con iTunes in esecuzione fungono da effetti visualizer che possono essere importati in iTunes.

Buon divertimento

* Fixed sending of invalid XML when asked for our version information in XMPP, which effectively broke XMPP connectivity. (Bug introduced in 1.2.6)
* Improved handling of invalid XML over XMPP
* Hopefully fixed a bug which caused an XMPP contact to infinitely flip between two groups shortly after authorization

Moolto moolto GEEK.

NB.: E' necessario installare anche SIMBL, la guida completa è nel link qui sotto.

Info e Donwload

ជយោ!!!

So it is with great surprise that I saw that a former post I'd written, about my teacher (លោក​គ្រូ) was suddenly rendering the text properly! It's not a Firefox change, either (Windows users have been able to use properly rendered text in Firefox and Thunderbird for ages) - It appears to be a proper update to Apple's own OS!

So now, I can finally start using wonderful tools like Transcriva to transcribe my interviews in Khmer, and converse with my Khmer-only friends in their own language, via Apple Mail!

@Apple​ អរគុណ ធំៗ!

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It's Friday, so it's time for....

Apps of the Week!

1. Spybot Search and Destroy RC2
2. Vuze- AKA Azureus
3. Opera 9.51
4. Flash Player 10 Beta 2..This is for FF
5. AVG Free 8.0.135
6. Foobar2000 0.9.5.4 Beta 3
7. Pidgin 2.4.3

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