Initially anounced for April, Sony will deliver its Double Layer DVD burners in May. They'll be able to burn the DVD+R (8.5GB on 2 layers) at 2.4x, and simple layer DVD+R at 8x.
Pioneer will have to act swiftly to prevent the extinction of the DVD-R. And this even more as Sony's burner will only cost 199 Euros for the internal version.
Thanks to Vincent for pointing us to the fact that Wacom released a new driver for its graphic tablets. This driver now brings "Fast User Switching" support in Panther.
Go to the site to see if your tablet is listed.
Thx to Julien for digging out these photos of a quite unexpected series of peripherals !
| Cleaning up my hard drive, I found those horrible things which I thought you may like to see too. After the initial stroke,you may wonder "why so much hatred for those USB keys?" In fact, those "tails" are absolutely useless, being thus genuine jewels for Mac. Yes lad that's what they are. If I got things right they'll cling to the Ethernet port. They were created by a German designer whose name I forgot... and the photos came from a design magazine, so i don't know if a Mac site ever published them. Yet you'll understand I couln't check such a terrible thing myself! |
And here are those artworks :
The French newspaper Libération published an article about the iPod and its accessories.
They seem surprised that everything that is related to the iPod but also to Apple in general, start with an "i" as a reminder of the Apple lineage. [In my opinion the French general opinion is really starting to know what an iPod is, andd in this article Libération speak of a new "Podies" tribe which would be a kind of urban, fashionable, music and zen technology loving people]
The article is
there
[use Babelfish if you wish to get a bit of its contents]
Thx to Loïc for letting us know that [the French version of] Rolling Stone magazine (Feb. 2004) publishes an interview with Steve Jobs, about the iTunes Music Store, its competitors and the iPod, naturally...
For a tuning contest ,
Dr Marc, instead of letting his Macplus rot in his cellar, decided he'd recycle it into a multimedia terminal. It will read DVDs, radio, mp3s, or let him know new mails have arrived, either on his TV screen or on the ridiculously small monochrome screen of the Mac plus.
Unfortunately he had to use the architecture of a PC: hard to see Windows on a Mac plus screen.
As we'd already told you
HERE, the iPod mini holds a 4Go Microdrive.
The iPoding site shows us a vivisected iPod mini which lets us know it truly is a Hitachi (ex IBM) Microdrive on a standard Compactflash format that is sold in those mini iPods. Yet the latter costs $250, while the 4 Go Microdrive alone is sold about $ 500 ! As Stéphane points it to us, there shall be many mini [LOL] iPods spare parts if Apple clings to the standard Compactflash interface. Many people interested in the solde Microdrive would be prompt to buy a mini iPod, tear it to pieces to get the internal drive out, and finally sell the spare parts...
[Upd.] Steve [not that one] lets us know the site
iPod Lounge published the testimony of someone who opened a mini iPod, took the Microdrive apart then inserted it in a Compactflash reader and a Canon camera. Neither of those could use the Microdrive. Maybe Apple use a special model or perhaps the Microdrive has to be reformatted to be used in stg else than the iPod mini ?
Si ce problème se résout, on pourra trouver des iPods mini en pièces détachées à partir desquels on pourra faire des iPods avec un Microdrive d'un Go par exemple...
