Wednesday December 28, 2005

- Illicit agreement for the price of music online? - Lionel - 12:46:15

Source : Generation NT

The Warner Music group has been subpoenaed by the New York state attorney general. The purpose of this investigation is to see wether there is an illicit agreement about the price of music for sale on the web.
This investigation started following rumors indicating the the 4 major record companies have consulted each other in order to fix prices of music and thus avoiding price wars.
Of course, the verdict of this affair will be of much interest to Apple.

[translation by jwa]

- A Tiger theme for K600 - Lionel - 11:51:55

Thanks to Gribouille to make his labor's fruit available.

I bought some times ago a Sony Ericsson K600i, for its design and iSync compatibility. This cellphone is most excellent except it will allow no use of extension cards.

Though I searched the web, no way to find a theme for my K600i. Yet Sony Ericsson software has now been made compatible with MacOS X. An eye on Apple's site, the other on Photoshop and Theme Creator. After a few hours, here's my Tiger based theme, now operational and compatible with K60i, K750 and W800 cellphones. (It is probably compatible with other SonyE from this generation but I'm not sure of that).

To download it:
TD.thm.zip

[translation by Kalomir]

- Class Action for memory slots of G4 Powerbooks - Lionel - 11:47:34

Source : XLR8yourMac

We received countless readers complaints as the lower RAM connector from their Powerbook G4 brutally refused to work. As often, Apple refused to acknowledge the problem and how often it is met.
And as often, Apple now face a Class Action in the United States.
https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/case/apple_powerbook_classaction
Luckily enough for us, if Apple are used to lose in justice before to acknowledge any defectuosity on their machines, they then provide a worldwide warranty extension to defective series.

[translation by Kalomir]

- A Mac-MacIntel - Lionel - 11:42:26

One of our readers sent us this picture.


He installed in a G5 case a motherboard and a X86 CPU, working under OS X.
He did the job well as the PCI Express and PCI slots come to their right place and he also managed to take advantage of the G5 air outputs.
It seems there would be a huge room to use in order to add many other HDs in the machine.

[translation by Kalomir]