QuickTime, 20 years of digital video - I

On December 2, 1991, Apple gave the world the first version of QuickTime, which triggered a technological revolution. At a time when digital video was completely replaced analogue, it is time to render unto Caesar what is his by right.

We imagine perhaps with difficulty, but without QuickTime, we would not have digital terrestrial TV or Blu-ray in every home, as we know it today.

Testing the iO Alesis Dock

The iO Dock iPad finally arrives resellers of our country, after a presentation at NAMM in January in Las Vegas. To house the tablet with a view to graft the necessary interfaces to the needs of musicians, the iO Dock succeed there to attract these users increasingly demanding? Attempt to answer in the following lines ...

Buying a Mac for Christmas

The holiday season approaching, and with them the traditional gifts. Whether you want a Mac to provide a loved one ... or yourself, here are some tracks. It is all general advice and our favorite heart to guide you, not quick fixes that apply to all - hunting gifts would be less funny if not.

A Mac with less than 800 €? 

If your maximum budget is less than € 800, quite clear limits are needed.

Changes in Apple

By the way the G3 to G4, the PowerBook has lost the flexibility of removable bays and exquisite design while curve from the aluminum cold that reigned seven years on the range. Apple has also, seemingly insignificant details, changed the direction of its logo on the hood of this machine. We knew that this decision has caused much discussion among users, and a stir at Apple: the bitten apple should she deal with the owner of the computer, close cover, or offer to passers, cover open? What we did not know is that Steve Jobs himself had settled the debate in one way or the other. The advertising Ken Segall, who attended Steve Jobs for 14 years, working in particular on the Think Different campaign and inventing the name iMac, returned to the meeting where the decision to change the orientation of the apple was taken.

Android Success Story

It is well known, the union is strength. Similarly the alignment of the PC manufacturers behind the standard Windows platform that has assured its hegemony over the whole computer, many predicted that the scenario happen again with Android and iPhone. In fact, Android's market share exceeded that of the iPhone. But is limited to these percentages would give a very fragmented image of the landscape because the deal is actually quite different from that between OS X to Windows. Undoubtedly, the winner of the Mac-PC war was Microsoft. From the perspective of manufacturers, however, the picture is somewhat more mixed. PC manufacturers have indeed been terribly dependent on Microsoft, and they were not able to differentiate the level of the operating system or its integration with their equipment, they have engaged in a war prices that has left them bloodless.