Oracle and 4D will announce officially at the AppleExpo their partnership that will bring 4D RAD for Oracle Server. First official Demo of this product at AppleExpo on September 20th and 21st.
For additional information :
http://www.4d.fr/corporate/events/oracle.html
Apple keeps expending iTMS features around music activities. One can now buy concert tickets for Depeche Mode from iTMS USA (only).
If such an offer is applied to all iTMS worldwide, in France FNAC and Virgin will have an additional reason to fight against Apple.
For additional information :
http://www.apple.com/itunes/.
Many mac users are using LCD displays featuring one or more dead pixel, and they quickly realize how annoying it can be. At the end, one can only see the dead pixel, and not the 99.99% remaining healthy ones. In addition many LCD manufacturers or resellers refuse to exchange the LCD panel if a minimal number of dead pixels is not reached.
Thanks to this
video that is displaying primary color on your LCD display; many users have been able to resurrect dead pixels, from iBook screen to PSP display.
So if you are facing a similar problem, it does not cost you anything to try it out.
Linotype proposes a font manager for OSX.
FontExplorerX is FREE and is working well for a beta version. Some bugs will probably be fixed with the final version.
http://www.linotype.com/2104-2493-2104/
Wired reports the fear of researchers with the dramatically increasing number of hearing loss in younger people. It is directly linked to the increased popularity of MP3 players, iPods, mobile phones and other portable music players.
Hearing specialists detect already problems with 30 and 40 years old people (the walkman generation).
The problem is not only due to the volume but also how long people listen to music, and the constant improvement of rechargeable battery lifespan might also contribute negatively to the hearing problem. Ears need some rest.
But this is also true for people going to concert where the usual music level is far beyond the safe listening limits
In France, music players are limited to a 100dB audio output limit, and even 80dB for children-dedicated devices. This is something positive, but it will not prevent you to damage your eras if you keep your iPod playing for 10 hours a day.
Last July, one of our readers working in an Apple maintenance center sent us this warning:
After I had to take care of a few G5 iMacs, I came to notice a detail that might result in a problem.
On the venting circuit for the G5 by heatsink entrance, composed of copper
wings that are distant from each other of a few mm, the dust will aggregate in quantities that may suffice to obturate the heatsink venting circuit.
As the air won't enter as well the fan will turn faster.
It's an issue I dealt with on older G5 iMacs series.
He sent us a pic that illustrates this problem.
The machine is only 6 months old. Once the dust has landed there, fans will have to turn increasingly faster so the CPU might cool well.
The problem is that it's very touchy to dismantle the cache in order to gain access to the heatsink.
From times to times, Mac manufacturers have been known to forget in the box that's delivered to the consumer things that shouldn't be there.
This time, Benjamin found this CD in the optical drive of his G5 dual 2 GHz.
It seems to be the DVD that's used to check the drive functions well. As you may see, no need to change a tool that works, as this DVD copyright is from 1996. The oldest MacUsers might remember that by that time, no Mac was sold with a DVD reader...
