User: maxence

Faster+Cheapest Mac ever unveiled at WWDC !

On: Apple Switching to Intel

At 999$, this 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 developper kit sounds like the fastest machine Apple is selling for a much lower price than PowerMac G5 !

That dev kit looks like a good deal to me ! :)

Header size

On: Presenting APNG: Like MNG, Only Better

the one advantage GIFs have over PNGs is that they can be animated

Another advantage GIF has over PNG is its smaller header size which makes small images lighter. A typical 16x16 GIF icon weighing about 100 bytes will translate into a PNG of 200 bytes or more.

That may sound like nitpicking but it can still matter, for example when transferring images to mobile phones.

And if any of you are in Japan

On: Mogi Location-Based Mobile Gaming Hits Japan

... and have the chance to own a GPS-enabled KDDI phone, just enter the "EZ Internet Number" 53577 to download the Java application and start playing.

And there currently is 1-month free trial running!

OK that's shameless promotion, I work for Newt Games :)

Expect next Apple campaign

On: Adobe Says PCs Are Preferred

to be something like "Speed is not everything!"

and hear switchers say "Photoshop was actually *too* fast on my Windows machine"

Donations ?

On: End of the Free Internet

I'd rather donate a few bucks to slashdot once in a while (I'd really do it) than paying a fixed subscription. Subscriptions scare people IMO.

The Brick Testament

On: Physical ASCII Mosaic

You might also want to check the Old and New Testament made out of Lego:
http://www.thereverend.com/brick_testament/.

Re:WTF????

On: Java IDEs?

Looks like a bug in Slashcode 2.2 :)

Finally a way to play ripped games on the Gamecube

On: Nintendo GameCube Clone Out In Japan

On the original Gamecube, regular CDs would not fit into the mini-DVD player.
With this system users will be able to burn gamecube rips on a regular CDR.

Maxence

Handspring is not the first

On: Treo, Combination Cellphone and PDA

Qualcomm and Kyocera have done it before, see http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/kysmart/kysmart_se ries.htm.
Maxence

ISO available

On: Linux On Your Dreamcast

DiscJuggler ISO available at dcemulation.com, that should save you a good amount of headache :)

Maxence

Missing dot

On: Simsville Canceled

Something's wrong with this post: Hemos forgot the dot.

Fractals for your phone

On: Classic Atari Games for Cell Phones

Check out Frac, a distributed fractal explorer for J2ME-compatible phones and PDAs.

Maxence

I guess there won't be any news updates

On: Indrema Dead in 30 Days?

"Click here to make sure you get the latest news updates on the Indrema Entertainment System."
http://www.indrema.com/servlet/lead

and see for yourself...

Re:What about the RIM blackberry?

On: Scanning The Landscape Of Palmtop GUIs

I got one of these and I think it is a great device if you consider it as an email pager. The messaging capabilities are great but the web browser is barely usable because it is too slow and often locks. I think they did a great job at the user interface which allows you to navigate with just one hand (so you can read your emails and drive at the same time!:) thanks to the nifty thumbwheel. Also the keyboard is really pleasant to use and I find it much faster to type than graffiti or any other forms of handwriting. The 'palm like' capabilities such as Memopad and Todos are very limited, I'd stick to the palm for that.

Thanks to Microsoft

On: Compaq announces Beta test for Linux Alpha C compiler

Now that Microsoft has decided to stop NT development on the Alpha platform (or at least they stopped trying to), Compaq seems to be much more interested in Linux for Alpha...

I wish the same thing could happen to the Intel platform :)