Saturday May 24, 2008

- Wizzgo: Online Digital Video Recorder - Lionel - 16:49:32

The new website Wizzgo offers a service which could be summarize as a online digital video recorder. You indicate a show/documentary available on the Digital Terrestrial TV, and it will record it and send to you.
Based on iTunes-like interface, it includes a synchronization modules with iTunes, and could be transfered to an iPod or an iPhone. You can place recording request for show and movies long time in advance, while even searching the future programs available on all legally accessible DTB channels.
It is only currently running on the French channels, but depending on the success it could rapidly be extended to other languages and channels. While it requires a client application for accessing and browsing the programs, it offers a Mac dedicated version, for once our favorite platform has not been ignored.

[translation by Linathael]

- Mysterious Apple containers: 3G iPhone, Apple Tablet? - xavier - 11:37:12

Source : Fortune

ImportGenius, a firm that collects "competitive intelligence" by monitoring U.S. Customs records of ocean containers entering American ports, has an intriguing report about some 188 containers shipped to Apple since March. The containters were labeled "electric computers", which is a label never used by Apple before.

The initial shipments were followed: on March 27, April 28, May 6 and May 17 with an additional 44 containers - each containing an estimated 40,000 units of the new phone. The sixteen containers imported by Apple Inc. itself - as opposed to the Quanta subsidiary - were delivered on March 19 and 27 to the Jonestown, Pa. facilities of Ingram Micro, Apple's U.S. distribution partner.

Estimates are that each container can hold about 40,000 units of the new iPhone, which totals to about 8 million 3G iPhones shipped so far - remember that Apple had sold 'only' about 4 million first-gen iPhones in January.

These containers are said to origin from Hon Hai and Quanta, both long-time Asian Apple manufacturers.
Hon Hai has already assembled Apple's first-gen iPhones, and may thus be shipping the second generation of iPhones too.
Quanta, on the other side, could be manufacturing the mysterious Mac-Tablet.

You can read the full report here

- Many Mac Mini's at the refurb store - Lionel - 10:18:30

If you were waiting, just like us, for the Mac mini at the refurb store, hurry up!
Today Apple is offering:

Mac mini Combo	Core Duo 1.66 GHz	60 Gb	€429 (not a really good deal)
Mac mini Superdrive	Core Duo 1.83 GHz	80 Gb	€459
Mac mini Superdrive	Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz	120 Gb	€589 (current top-of-the-line model)

To the Refurb Store

[translation by xavier]

- iPod2sell - Lionel - 10:10:57

One year after the launch of Mac2sell, our friends from Macplus are launching a website dedicated to selling used iPods and iPhones.
iPod2sell is an international site, covering 25 countries.

[translation by xavier]

- Intel Might accelerate the development of SSD disks - Lionel - 10:10:46

Source : Digitimes

Even though officially there are many manufacturers of SSD disks in the catalogue, in reality, it is difficult to buy with one of these rare computers with the proposed SSD as an option, and t is impossible to find one at the retail stores, at any price.
It seems quite simply that the manufacturers prefer not to mass produce these disks. Things could quickly change under the impulse given by Intel.
The foundry decided to propose, as an option with the centrino 2 platform, SSD disks. They will be in SATA (exit MacBook Air) and proposed in 1,8" and 2,5" in a capacity of 80 GB.
Intel already hope to pass to 160 GB by the end of the year, and 250 GB in 2009.
The tariff of these products should be accessible since the foundry considers that the mid-range machines could be equipped about it.

[translation by crispin]