MacBook Pro: more powerful then itself

Singular but nice move from Apple: every booked (and now in distribution) MacBook Pro will be delivered with a SpeedBump Gift! Core Duo 1,83GHz will be delivered with a Core Duo 2Ghz, the 1,67GHz with a 1,83GHz. And, as it’s not enough, a new Core Duo 2,16GHz is be avalaible as an order-option!!! Source, Melablog.

February 14, 2006 · 1 min · 55 words

iPod of the future: one more... Patent!

The Patent: click. The Source: Melablog. Meaningfull image 01: Meaningfull image 02: Meaningfull image 03:

February 11, 2006 · 1 min · 15 words

Multi-Touch interaction Experiment

A movie about the technologie which Apple has reacently pattented. It is not a movie made by Apple but by some researchers: On Google Video. Some toughts here.

February 11, 2006 · 1 min · 28 words

Finger-Zoom: a Apple new patent to increase HCI drammatically

Mac Rumors talks about Apple Tablet Patents: A search at the US Patent and Trademark Office reveals a number of new Apple patent applications that relate to the long-rumored Apple Tablet based computer. One of the most relevant: Gestures for touch sensitive input devices - Methods and systems for processing touch inputs are disclosed. The invention in one respect includes reading data from a multipoint sensing device such as a multipoint touch screen where the data pertains to touch input with respect to the multipoint sensing device, and identifying at least one multipoint gesture based on the data from the multipoint sensing device. ...

February 4, 2006 · 1 min · 181 words

Geekbench Comparison: G4 vs G5 vs AMD64 vs P4 vs Xeon

On Geekpatrol.ca there is a comparison between… Mac Mini 1.42 GHz 512 KB L2 cache 167 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR 333 SDRAM iMac G5 2.1 GHz 512 KB L2 cache 700 MHz system bus 1.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM. iMac Core Duo 1.83 GHz 2 MB L2 cache shared between cores 667 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR2 667 SDRAM. iMac Core Duo 2.0 GHz 2 MB L2 cache shared between cores 667 MHz system bus 512 MB RAM DDR2 667 SDRAM Power Mac G4 Dual 1.25 GHz 256 KB L2 cache per cpu 2 MB backside L3 cache per cpu 167 MHz system bus 1.75 GB DDR 333 SDRAM Power Mac G5 1.6 GHz 512 KB L2 cache 800 MHz system bus 768 MB DDR 333 SDRAM Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz 512 KB L2 cache per processor 900 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR 400 SDRAM. Power Mac G5 Dual Core 2.0 GHz 1 MB L2 cache per core 1000 MHz system bus 2.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM Power Mac G5 ‘Quad’ 2.5 GHz 1 MB L2 cache per core 1.25 GHz system bus 1.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (2.2 GHz) 512 KB L2 cache 800 MHz system bus 1 GB of DDR 400 SDRAM. Intel Pentium 4c 2.4 GHz HT 512 KB L2 cache 800 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR 400 SDRAM Intel Xeon Dual 3.2 GHz HT 1MB L2 cache per CPU 800 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR2 400 SDRAM … using Geeckbench Preview: a opensource benchmark running on MacOSX and Windows by now. ...

February 1, 2006 · 2 min · 284 words

Soon, Native GTK+ on MacOSX

Soon you may be able to execute Gnome/Gtk+ based programs NATIVELLY NATIVELY on Quartz without the X11 Emulation. Someone (thanks to exist) is working on the porting. It may be the incipit of a new era for Open Source software on MacOSX. Take a look at this. One of the most interesting characteristics of Gnome-oriented applications is the coherence between the HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) of Gnome and MacOSX. Source: Melablog.it and StyleMac.com.

January 31, 2006 · 1 min · 73 words

Finder Software Engineer: Apple offers work

The Finder team is seeking an energetic, motivated software engineer to help develop next generation versions of the Finder, the notorious file browser for Mac OS X. You will be responsible for developing new features of an application that is often perceived by our users as the “face of the system”. You will be working on user interfaces spanning various browser views, new advanced search features, navigation and data presentation as well as many other parts of the application. ...

January 26, 2006 · 1 min · 81 words

Pixar purchased by Disney

Disney was in trouble but… this acquisition is the begin of a rebirth of Disney as a “quality symbol” in the Industry of Digital Animation. Jobs, because the acquisition was done with a quotation-paiment (entirelly!!!), becames an “heavy member” of the Disney. I hope to see some beautiful films birth arise from this blending… and a great Apple Software utilization :D (anyone say Final Cut Pro?). Source, Melablog.

January 26, 2006 · 1 min · 68 words

iTunes U

Nessun commento. Sarebbe superfluo e scontato. Solo il link. … e una preghiera.

January 26, 2006 · 1 min · 13 words

Ziplight: make Spotlight more curious

On that page of the Apple Download Center you can find Ziplight, a Spotlight plugin that enable searches into our zip archives. A much usefull idea, it isn’t?

January 26, 2006 · 1 min · 28 words