News for Thursday, 8 July 2004

Apple Story ("L'Aventure Apple"), the French web site dedicated to the story of Apple has been updated! You will find not only the last news, but also updates following introduction or revisions of Apple products; and last but not least a special page dedicated to the iPod, with the complete story of the Apple little music box.

http://www.aventure-apple.com/
http://www.aventure-apple.com/ordis/ipod.html

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, has officially announced that the company will try to save around 1 billion US$ this year. To do so, they will reduce cost without firing any employees. So, social protection and other advantages of Microsoft employees would be affected.
Now, when you realize that Microsoft is generating as much profit than the year budget of some countries in the world; one can think that Microsoft could use its employees in its current legal battles with different institution (EU, ...).

thanks to Jean-Charles forthis news.

Modul8 is a revolutionary tool for real-time video mixing and composing dedicated to VJ's and other performers. It has been created by a group of VJ's and real-time imaging specialist located in Geneva. Modulo8 interface is well designed and allows intuitive creation of "on the fly" sequences based on 2D/3D/QuickTime graphical layers. (we just can not wait to see this running under Tiger with the Core graphics/video!) Modulo8 can be controlled via devices using the MIDI format, and soon via IP using IACS format-enable devices (Inter Application Control Stream) currently developed by Pascal Pochet (http://www.macosxguru.net). You can download the demo version of this marvelous application here http://www.garagecube.com/modul8/index.html

Nicolas is a Luxemburg citizen. He decided to seek the European HQ of the iTMS. The building is not very "Apple" :

If you want to know some more, you can check his blog (though in French) :
http://www.entrezeroetun.com/blog/

Thank you Seuqaj for this info.

I just got my hands on my spanking new 2x2GHz G5. Very nice... Unfortunately, the current VirtualPC doesn't work on it and my wife needs to use a win32 app.Then, as I was browsing the content of old hard drives, I found that I had a fully configured old RealPC (version 1.0.9)... Out of curiosity, I double click on its icon... And then... I see Classic starting and then RealPC. After cleaning a bit the C: and D: drives, I had a fully functionnal Windows 98 desktop ! And my wife's software works fine, at a reasonnable speed.

Of course, the performance drop for using classic before the actual x86 emulation is quite big. RealPC also limits the guest OS's RAM to 256MB.
But this will certainly help a few folks that need to run windows apps while waiting for the ever delayed new version of Microsoft VPC.

We just heard that after delivering his keynote at Apple Expo on August 31st, Mr Jobs ought to take the top execs of the European Majors out for lunch.
Becoming a super salesman, Steve proves that Apple is serious about reinforcing the bond between them and Apple.