News for Friday, 17 August 2007

Since yesterday evening, Skype is experienceing serious problems with its servers, making all VoIP communication impossible or difficult as indicated by a message posted on skype website:

Hello everyone,
Skype is currently working on resolving the sign-on issue. We’re fixing our networking software and monitoring the clients getting online with increased success.
Please see our Heartbeat blog for ongoing updates.

Cinebench, developed by Maxon, is a reference as a benchmark application. The new version has been entirely revised for supporting hardware based on 4 and more cores/CPU, allowing users to better evaluate OpenGL performance of graphic cards and entire configuration..
You can download hte last version from Maxon website: CINEBENCHR10.zip, and post the result of your test, previous and new version, on our forum: here

We received numerous reports of compatibility issues and other problems linked to iWeb 2.0. It seems that Apple decided to quickly react after the launch of iLife '08 and the numerous bugs already patched.
The new update is supposed to solve issues with publishing of websites designed with iWeb 1.X:

What’s New in this Version
This update addresses issues with upgrading and publishing iWeb 1.x website

You can directly download this update from the Apple download webpage.