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For those which would like to pass on iLife ‘09, you do not precipitate too quickly without knowing that it will initially be necessary for you to pass to Leopard. The addition is thus likely to be salted since it will be necessary to add the 129 € to the 79 € of iLife. And well once in a while does no harm, Apple proposes to us to make economies by buying for 169 € Mac Box Set, a software pack containing iLife 09, iWork 09 and Leopard. For 39 € of less thus, you will have iWork 09 moreover. Family Pack is with 229 €, that is to say 168 € of economy.

Do not forget however that SnowLeopard should arrive this year, and that it will thus be necessary to pass by again with the case to put again up to date your operating system…

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 2:09 pm

As we said it to you in the live one, Apple now proposes to do without DRM on iTunes.
It is possible to update its already bought music, 0,30 euros for a piece, 30% of the price of an album, and 0,60 euros per video clip.
For little that you made of the consequent purchases, this update will be quickly crippling, several tens or rather quickly hundreds of Euros.

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 1:33 pm

Apple Store Fr has just reopened.
New MacBook Pro is proposed with 2499 € in initial version (4 Go of RAM, CPU 2,66 GHz). The option 2,93 GHz costs 270 €, the SSD 128 Go 450 €, the 256 Go 810 € (outch!!), the screen anti reflection 45 €, the option 8 Go 1088 € (Outch twice).
It is delivered under 3 to 4 weeks
MacBook bond: @MacBook 17 ” on Apple Store
PS: A machine with the signal of hardware (RAM SSD and CPU) totals 4704 €!

The continuation iLife in précommande is invoiced 79 €, the same price as iWork.

[Màj] It should be noted that by choosing the anti-reflecting option, the delivery periods is lengthened and is from 4 to 6 weeks.

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 11:52 am

Phil lengthily presented new the iLife. Most impressive is certainly iPhoto which supports the facial recognition henceforth.
More on this continuation like on the new versions of Keynote, Page, and Numbers, we invite you to read again Live or with going to see description of it on Apple Store

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 11:48 am

The only material advertisement of Keynote will have been that of MacBook Pro 17 ” Unibody.

It has a resolution of 1900x 1200 with an anti-reflecting option with 50$ (a film is placed between the flagstone of glass and the LCD). Contrast is 700:1 with a retro lighting LED.
It weighs 3 kg, and makes 2,49 cm thickness.
What will make more feeling is its battery. It is irremovable what made it possible at Apple to make it grow of 40%.
In exchange, it has an autonomy of 8:00 what is colossal for a portable and supports 1000 cycles of load. An intelligent system manages each module in a separate way to optimize its operation as well as possible.
The video part is similar to that of model 15 “, with the couple 9400M/9600GT.
It is delivered of series with Core 2 Duet to 2,66 GHZ and an option for one 2,93 GHz (recently announced by Intel), an hard drive of 320 Go (option SSD 256 Go).
It has 3 connectors USB, a firewire 800, entered the left audio ones, of ExpressCard 34 and Ethernet Gigabit.
It supports up to 8 Go of RAM DDR3.

It will be delivered starting from the end of the month 2799$

MacBook bond: @MacBook 17 ” on Apple Store

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 11:46 am

One left for a few hours frenzy now that Apple Store closed, precursory sign of advertisements.
One already knows by an indiscretion of Apple about his site that Ilife 09 will be launched very soon. Remain to be seen if the machines promised or rather resulting from the rumours will be it also.

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 8:17 am

As usual, we will try this evening to make you live on line the advertisements of Keynote of Macworld Expo.
Appointment with 18:00 with the usual address Keynote.macbidouille.com. Once more, Google exceptionally raised the quotas of its system always in beta which we use. We hope that they will be sufficient to allow you all to follow this live under good conditions. From here the next Vent, this system should leave its phase of test, and will allow us to offer a quality of service without fault to you, knowing that we will pay what we will use on this occasion.

To finish, a short note for submission to Moose which because of the bad weather and with the delays of planes which rose from it did not arrive yet at San Francisco. It will be there in the evening, after a voyage which will have passed from length to interminable.

Article Posted on January 6, 2009 at 12:04 am

The more time passes and the more the updates of Mac OS X and the associated components (updated safety, QuickTime…) are heavy. If one hardly pays attention to it when one has that only one computer, the things become complicated since one has some several, or a worse whole park. In this case, it is preferable to recover these updates in Combo version and then to return them on the machines via the network or a memory support, which remains long and complex.
According to 9to5mac, Apple could bring another more elegant solution via Time Capsule which could change, to the image of Mac OS X waiter, in a local waiter for these updates.
They would be downloaded above before being able to be automatically proposed on the machines present on the network. In addition to the considerable time-saver of remote loading, this solution would bring a large saving in band-width for the waiters of Apple which slow down at the time of the large updates produced, an economy on the level of the use of Akamai and it should not be forgotten for our operators Internet for whom the band-width consumed elsewhere costs also money.
PS: While remaining on the subject of Time Capsules, it became more interesting than ever to buy the model 500 Go and to replace the disc of it. The difference in tariff between the version 500 Go and 1 To remained of 200 €, whereas a disc of 1 To costs today largely less than 100 €. For hardly more one can even have a model 1,5 To. You will find the article describing the replacement of its disc to the following address: http://www.macbidouille.com/articles/244/

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 10:19 pm

Source: CDR InfoAlors which one is still in full transition towards the HD, and that Blu-ray still pains to convince, the industrialists think already of the next technological revolution which will enter our homes and on our computers. It will be the 3D. Already several manufacturers started to show their solutions owners which are more or less convincing, which requires glasses or not…
It is with the turn of Dolby, well-known for its audio solutions. The laboratory announced to work with a solution making it possible to record and restore video 3D on Blu-ray discs. It is put thus in competition with Philips and Panasonic which already presented their similar solutions, which promises a beautiful free-for-all to know which will gain the war of this standard and will impose it as normalizes via the BDA which will have to slice.
Of course, beyond their will to bring new experiment to you the intention hides to convince the consumers from here a few years that their TV HD and their Blu-ray reader became obsolete and to incite them to change some. But since time, one is accustomed there.

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 10:05 pm

According to Macfixit, the person in charge of the recurring click of Superdrive occurring every 5 minutes on certain portables since the passage to Mac OS X 10.5.6 was identified.
This noise of ejection which one usually has at the exit of day before would be due to the Growl software which is used to allow other software like Adium, VLC, Tramsit…. to send notifications.
To regulate the problem while waiting for an update of Growl, it is enough to the désinstaller.

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 10:05 pm

Source: Wall street journalDepuis 2003, the RIAA, which takes care of the interests of the artists in the United States, was pressed on the MediaSentry company to collect the evidence of illegal downloading, which had led to 35.000 legal proceedings.
Since, the RIAA seeks other means to fight against the hacking and decided not to work more with its sulfurous partner. Indeed, MediaSentry was often shown to use not very orthodoxe methods to collect the data being used then as evidence.
The RIAA now seeks to impose on the United States on a side a form of measured reaction while cutting the access of the pirate Net surfers, and other to compromise with the universities in order to propose impunity in exchange of what resembles a global license.

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 10:04 pm

Source: PC WorldCeux which knew Mac Power PC know that Freescale (division of Motorola become autonomous) made it possible Mac to know a beautiful time before putting Apple at the edge of the pit while being unable to make evolve/move rather quickly its processor.
The abandonment of Power PC by Apple signed the end of the presence of this company on the data-processing market general public.
She seeks today to make her return with processors low consumption and of low power (the malicious gossip will say inevitably), the i.MX515. Based on an architecture ARM they promise a compromise power/price consumption which will make it possible to the manufacturers of ultra portables to leave the machines under the bar of the 200$.
Of course, for lack of X86 instructions, these machines will have to use Linux or an owner system.
Note that the processor in question will have a maximum frequency of 1 Ghz and will also support video posting 3D.
Knowing the vexations which Apple with them knew, there are few chances that this product finished by being found in a Mac Table, especially since the repurchase of Semi Pa.

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 10:04 pm

Within the framework of its operation iTunes 12 days the platform of sale on line of Apple offers to you today to it video of the clip “Panic grass” of The Smiths

To recover the contents, it is enough for you to click on the following bond:
Panic grass

We benefit from it to thank iTunes for having chosen Macbidouille like partner at the time of this business transaction.

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 10:04 pm

According to Digitimes, Intel could delay few months its next mobile platform called Calpella and based on Nehalem architecture.
It would be revealed in October 2009 instead of July/August. The fault would not return from there to engineering problems, but to the sales strategy of the founder who wants to leave more time to the manufacturers of portables to empty their stocks of current products, the crisis having slowed down the market.
It should be said that on the market of the portables, Intel does not have any more any adversary and can take all its time to manage the launches of new products.

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 10:03 pm

Source : http://www.roxio.fr/

Roxio a annoncé en ouverture de la Macworld Expo l’arrivée de la dixième version de Toast. Le logiciel est maintenant décliné en 2 versions, une Standard à 99€ et une pro à 139,99€. Il faut à cela ajouter 19.99€ pour pouvoir accéder à la créations de médias vidéo Blu-ray.
Voici des extraits de leur communiqué de presse:

Parmi les nouvelles fonctionnalités et améliorations de Toast 10 :
AVCHD™ Archive – Sauvegardez vos vidéos brutes de caméscopes AVCHD directement sur DVD ou disques Blu-ray en un seul clic. Visualisez les disques au moyen de lecteurs BD ou utilisez-les comme fichiers sources pour de futurs projets iMovie ou Toast.
Mac2TiVo – Envoyez des vidéos HD ou non, de votre Mac vers votre appareil TiVo pour les visualiser sur votre TV
Vidéo web en déplacement – Enregistrez des vidéos internet depuis votre site de partage vidéo préféré pour les visualiser hors connexion, les graver ou encore les convertir pour en profiter sur un lecteur portable tel que l’iPod® ou l’iPhone®.
Divertissement nomade – Diffusez en streaming et regardez des programmes TV, tels que les enregistrements EyeTV et les transferts TiVoToGo sur votre iPhone ou votre iPod Touch via wifi avec la nouvelle application Streamer® native de l’iPhone.
Livres audio portables – Convertissez des CD de livres audio en fichiers uniques pour les écouter sur votre iPod ou un autre lecteur portable – avec les chapitres individuels. Finis les fichiers individuels éparpillés dans votre bibliothèque iTunes ou votre iPod.
Music Builder – Etoffez votre bibliothèque audio en capturant de l’audio diffusé en continu, comme par exemple depuis une platine vinyle ou un magnétophone. Toast sépare désormais automatiquement les chansons capturées en pistes, et y ajoute le titre et le nom de l’artiste, puis les envoie vers iTunes.
Folder Sync – Synchronisez vos dossiers de façon bidirectionnelle entre plusieurs ordinateurs, volumes de réseau ou disques durs externes.
Des DVD époustouflants – Créez des DVD personnalisés avec l’un des 20 nouveaux styles de menus DVD et Blu-ray – disponibles à la fois en mode plein écran et écran large.

Nouveau: Toast 10 Titanium Pro

Roxio dévoile également Toast 10 Titanium Pro destinés aux utilisateurs avertis, aux professionnels de la création et aux passionnés de photos et vidéos. En complément de Toast 10 Titanium, Toast 10 Pro inclut le plug-in BD/HD ainsi que des applications tierces (en anglais) pour créer des projets photo, vidéo et audio sophistiqués.

Plug-In HD/BD–Permet de créer du contenu vidéo HD sur disques DVD standard ou Blu-ray. Utilisez des vidéos brutes haute définition à partir de caméscopes AVCHD™, TiV®o et EyeTV et créer des disques Blu-ray et même des disques DVD standards avec du contenu HD qui peuvent être lus sur n’importe quelle platine Blu-ray ou sur la console de jeux PlayStation® 3.
SmartSound Sonicfire™ Pro – Orchestrez la piste son parfaite pour accompagner vos vidéos et vos diaporamas. Utilisez la fonction unique de Sonicfire Pro « Mood Mapping » ou choisissez à partir d’une bibliothèque musicale intégrée et ajustez la bande son pour s’adapter à l’ambiance de vos vidéos et diaporamas.
BIAS SoundSoap™ – Supprimez les bruits indésirables tels que le vent, les sifflements, les rayures, et les craquements des vinyles, des cassettes et de pratiquement toute piste musicale.
LightZone™ – Produisez des photos sensationnelles de façon simple et intuitive. Des fonctions sophistiquées telles que le mapping de zones ou le rééclairage vous offrent le contrôle pour obtenir des résultats de qualité professionnelle.
FotoMagico™ – Transformez vos images en un diaporama fascinant en quelques clics seulement, puis présentez-le en haute définition. Des outils innovants de texte, de transitions et d’alignement vous assurent d’un résultat époustouflant. Gravez votre diaporama sur DVD ou disque Blu-ray pour le visualiser et le partager en toute facilité.

Notez que le Plug-in Blu-ray sera offert jusqu’au 5 février.

Il faut avouer que si nous étions des inconditionnels de Toast, la version 9 nous a donné une forte impression d’inachevé et même d’instabilité. Souhaitons que la 10 soit plus aboutie, ce qui serait la moindre des choses étant donné son tarif.

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 9:20 am

Chose exceptionnelle, Steve Jobs dans une lettre ouverte a parlé de son problème de perte de poids.
Il serait la conséquence d’un dérèglement hormonal déjà en cours de traitement.
Ce problème considéré comme sans gravité, de l’aveu même de Steve, devrait être résolu rapidement et il devrait reprendre du poil de la bête d’ici le printemps.
Il en profite pour réaffirmer son intention de rester à la tête d’Apple, même durant sa convalescence.

Voilà qui fera taire (enfin en partie) les rumeurs qui ont démarré lorsque l’on a appris qu’il ne ferait pas le Keynote de demain.

[MàJ] voici le contenu de cette lettre ouverte, en anglais:

Dear Apple Community,

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.

Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.

I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Apple community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.

As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.

Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause — a hormone imbalance that has been “robbing” me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.

The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment. But, just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my recovery.

I have given more than my all to Apple for the past 11 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple’s CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Apple first.

So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.

Steve

Article Posted on January 5, 2009 at 6:54 am

Within the framework of its operation iTunes 12 days the platform of sale on line of Apple offers today the piece to you “Yew You’ Re Out There” of John Legend.

To recover the contents, it is enough for you to click on the following bond:
Yew You’ Re Out There
The free piece is that surligné in the list in bottom.

Appointment tomorrow with The Smiths

Article Posted on January 4, 2009 at 10:16 pm

The AMUG passed to the grill the chart Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard 34 of Sonnet.

This chart which proposes two independent connectors SATA is based on the chips Marvell 88SX7042 which is a top-of-the-range converter PCI Express towards SATA.
And in the facts, one obtains very interesting performances since a RAID 0 of two discs reaches the 177 Mo/s in writing and 199 Mo/s in reading.

At the time of this test, the AMUG noted a thing which will make squeak teeth.
Update EFI for MacBook Pro Unibody proposed during their tests deteriorated notably the performances of the charts tested (not only that of Sonnet) and makes lose not badly in flow. Whereas the performances before the update were identical between the new portables and the preceding range, they are then in favour of the old range from 38 to 61% (under extreme conditions, with a RAID of 5 discs). It seems well that it acts a bug concerning the EFI 1.6, and one will need certainly a new update, once Apple will have admitted this bug, so that it disappears.

Article Posted on January 4, 2009 at 10:03 pm

Source: TGdailyNielsen published a precise study on the sales of music in the United States in 2008.
It was sold over the year 1,51 billion musical products (albums, individual, video clips and numerical tracks) what represents a rise of 10,5% compared to 2007.
If the physical sales dropped by 14%, those dematerialized increased by 27% while the income generated by this channel increased by 32% to 65,8 million dollars.
All would seem well to occur during the passage towards the new economy if the Majors managed to find themselves there on this transfer of mode of consumption, which is not yet the case.
One will note to finish who the vinyl that one believed last in the trap door made like back, with a rise of the sales of 89% for a total of 1,88 million dollars.

Article Posted on January 4, 2009 at 10:03 pm

The news of a patent filling by Microsoft describing the means of making pay its software with use made badly run not ink. One has just learned that this patent application would have been rejected. A pertie of the terms would be too fuzzy, while an other part of the request would be already covered by other patents.
Microsoft has the choice between accepting this irrefutable fact or remaking a modified request.

Article Posted on January 4, 2009 at 10:03 pm

On several occasions, we had spoken to you about the vexations met on Mac with the discs 1,5 To de Seagate. An update of their firmware since regulated these problems. She was in any case considered to be sufficient so that Data Robotics which markets storage solutions intended for the professionals, withdraws its warning on these discs and regards them the new ones as reliable.
For recall, this update is available only since November 22, and it is necessary to make a request with SAV of Seagate to have the right to download it. This new firmware is the SD1A.

Article Posted on January 4, 2009 at 10:03 pm

C’est demain soir que se tiendra le keynote inaugural de la Macworld Expo, à 18h heure de Paris (UTC/GMT -8).
Ce sera une dernière sachant que c’est la dernière année où Apple est présent dans un salon (hors WWDC qui est un événement 100% Apple) et presque une première puisque Steve Jobs, bien qu’annoncé en bonne santé, a cédé sa place à Phil Schiller, officiellement par désintérêt pour ce qui est justement la dernière messe de ce genre.
C’est très plausible, car selon ce qui est déjà devenu une légende, Steve Jobs a débarqué un matin au bureau et a annoncé de manière crue qu’Apple devait arrêter tous les salons, considérant ce mode de communication comme vieux jeu.

Pourtant, le rumeur prête une fois encore un nombre d’annonces incroyables à ce Keynote:
- Nouvel iMac remanié avec des processeurs à 4 coeurs et Geforce 9400M,
- Nouveaux Mac mini avec 9400M, design tout en métal et possibilité d’y mettre deux disques durs,
- Nouveau Macbook Pro Unibody et sa batterie inamovible qui fait déjà couler beaucoup d’encre,
- Remaniement de la (jeune) gamme des Macbook,
- Lancement d’une suite iLife “cloud” basée sur des services Web…
Il y en a certainement trop pour meubler 1h30 de conférence, surtout si l’on au aussi droit aux auto congratulations habituelles sur l’iPhone, les ventes de Mac et les parts de marché de Mac OS X.

A vrai dire, nous attendons ce Keynote avec beaucoup d’impatience. Si Phil Schiller fait de nombreuses annonces produit, ce sera la preuve d’une réelle passation de pouvoir entre Steve Jobs et lui. Dans ce cas, le Big Boss emblématique risque de se faire encore bien plus rare, ce qui relancera une fois encore les rumeurs sur son état de santé. Mais il est également possible que Schiller ne fasse qu’une heure et demi de remplissage prouvant le désintérêt officiel d’Apple pour les salons et que les produits escomptés sortent en marge du Keynote, peut-être même dans la nuit précédent ou suivant son allocution (les fameux mardi ou mercredi midi où l’Apple Store ferme).
Vu le nombre de produits attendus, la vérité est certainement quelque part entre ces deux possibilités, mais sous son apparence presque habituelle, ce Keynote nous donnera le ton et la tournure que prendra la façade officielle d’Apple pour ces prochaines années.

Article Posted on January 4, 2009 at 10:02 pm

Here is a good means of creating a real passion around Macworld, of putting covers on the panels and the Apple stand as these photographs posted by Appleinsider show it.

In the register of the rumours, 9to5mac believes it that Apple could reveal Macbook Pro Unibody 17 ” which would be even finer, and would be equipped with a battery long life and big size, but irremovable, with the image of that of the Apple walkmans or of MacBook Air. Macrumors would have received concordant information.
The Macbook range would be also re-examined, with the disappearance of the old model of line entry and a tariff repositioning to replace it.

We will know some more very soon, and you will on the spot have right at the time of this Macworld to many reports, Moose, member of our team playing the part of special correspondent of Macbidouille.

Article Posted on January 4, 2009 at 1:32 am

Within the framework of its operation iTunes 12 days the platform of sale on line of Apple offers the video clip today to you “And if it had to be done” of Patricia Kaas.

To recover the contents, it is enough for you to click on the following bond:
And if it had to be done

Appointment tomorrow with John Legend

Article Posted on January 4, 2009 at 1:12 am

Source: Dailytech2008 will be to mark of a black stone for the industry of the music. The first figures showed a Net retreat of the CD sales of almost 14% and to 45% since 2000 which was the culminating point, the golden age of the music.
Among the advanced reasons, the hacking appears of course at the head, but the success of other products as the video games are also quoted, which avoids very called in awkward question of this industry, once more.
The economic crisis seems also last under silence, while at the same time it was learned that for the first time the sales in line of products dropped at the time of the festivals of end of the year, quantifiable proof of the fall of consumption.
One can also quote the example of the Star Academy of the vintage 2008 which knew a lack of success without precedent, probable proof that the consumers have enough of them certain bad soups which one tries to make them swallow. And in this last case, impossible to blame the hacking. They quite simply were worse than ever.

Article Posted on January 3, 2009 at 12:35 am