As Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference draws to a close, the Macalope examines the radioactive remains of this week's announcements and predictions.

A vérifier demain matin, mais le bruit d'un passage de l'iPhone 3G 16 Go à 99 euros demain vendredi chez Orange est arrivé jusqu'à nous.

EDIT : Confirmé, passage à 99 Euros ce Vendredi à 10h00

Les deux modèles seraient alors (étrangement) au même prix ... Hypothèse : cela permettrait d'écouler les 16 Go, et de conserver les iPhone 3G 8 Go en entrée de gamme pour la sortie de l'iPhone 3GS du 19 juin ?

Il se murmure également que les anciens clients Orange (avec les points qui vont bien) auraient une offre de migration à l'iPhone 3GS 'très attractive'.

A suivre !

In the Place Stanislas, an 18th-century public square in Nancy, France, Motion and three Mac Pro computers help the design firm Spectaculaires mount extraordinary light shows each summer night. The team projects fantastical animated images on the façade of the Hôtel de Ville, and “without Motion,” says artist Clément Barré, “we never would have completed this project in time.”

Filed under: Terminal Tips, Leopard

Problem: Some piece (or pieces) of rogue software have cluttered up your Open With contextual menu, which you can see by right-clicking or control-clicking any document in the Finder. This problem seems to be most prevalent with virtual machines that allow you to open documents with Windows applications, but tend not to clean up after themselves. After having both Parallels and VMWare installed on my MacBook Pro, my Open With menu was a mess.

Solution: Lucky for me, I noticed David Chartier's question about this on Twitter around the same time as I was wondering what to do about it. Some friendly person pointed him to a posting on Apple's discussion forum (also noted on Mac OS X Hints here and here), noting that running a specific command in a terminal window will rebuild your launch services, which repopulates the Open With menu with a current list of applications, without duplicates. It worked perfectly for me, but beware, on my system it took about 10 minutes to complete, and I suspect it could take more on a sufficiently gummed-up system.

Here's the Leopard version of the command (the path to the tool is different in Tiger, see here). I broke it into three lines for readability, but the \ at the end of the line is bash-speak for "keep on going with the same command" -- you can copy and paste it directly and it should work, or if you type it on one line without the backslashes, it will also work fine.

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/\
 LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill\
 -r -domain local -domain system -domain user 

If, preferring to avoid the Terminal, you want a handy GUI app to rebuild the Launch Services database with a couple of clicks, check out Titanium's OnyX or Maintenance utilities, both free of charge.

TUAWTerminal Tips: Rebuild your Launch Services database to clean up the Open With menu originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ecco l’anteprima esclusiva di un nuovo gioco che ngmoco rilascerà in estate. Si chiama Kill Test ed è uno shooter game dotato di una grafica eccezionale:

Come vedete risulta fluidissimo, avremo a disposizione diverse armi ma soprattutto la possibilità di giocare utilizzando una connessione WiFi o 3G per trovare ed ammazzare gli altri giocatori di tutto il mondo! iSpazio vi terrà informati

Nei scorsi giorni vi abbiamo parlato della potenza grafica, che alcuni analisti hanno paragonato addirittura a quella della PSP, e della RAM raddoppiata del nuovo iPhone 3G S. Per questo gli sviluppatori hanno ora la possibilità di sviluppare giochi molto più potenti, con il rischio che non girino su iPhone 3G…

La ngmoco (Rolando, Star Defense, ecc…) ha già fatto sapere, però, che non svilupperà giochi che non siano in grado di essere lanciati e giocati senza problemi su iPhone 3G. Questo sarà possibile grazie a piccole differenze grafiche che saranno presenti tra i due dispositivi, mentre il frame rate sarà lo stesso.

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, OS, Software Update, Leopard

Against my better judgment, I always download and install Mac OS X updates immediately. That has never caused an issue with any of my Macs until now. Since I installed 10.5.7 literally minutes after hearing about its release, I have been experiencing sporadic issues with USB on my first-generation Intel iMac.

A look through the Apple Support discussion forums showed that this isn't an isolated issue. A number of people have reported losing connectivity to USB hard disks and peripherals. What's rather discouraging to see, however, is that USB issues aren't the only problem that 10.5.7 hath wrought. Other frustrations reported in the forums include:

• Loss of connectivity to Bluetooth peripherals including keyboards, mice, and phones
• Monitor resolution issues (former resolution settings missing, colors "off", screen redraw oddities)
• Mac crashing as it goes to sleep, having problems waking from sleep
• No sound, or sound quality is bad
• Intermittent problems with WiFi connectivity
• Spontaneous shutdowns
• Older MacBook Pros overheating

The list goes on and on... Some forum regulars report that the problems go away after downloading and installing the 10.5.7 Combo Updater (available at http://support.apple.com/downloads/), while others are still experiencing frustrating crashes even after attempting this fix.

TUAW wants to hear from readers who have experienced issues of any sort since updating a Mac to 10.5.7. If you have, what kind of problems are you seeing? What, if any, fixes have worked for you?

TUAWIs the Mac OS X 10.5.7 update causing you grief? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Using your steady hands you will stack items and keep them from tipping over. Price: $.99 Download This App: Developers Website

According to documents filed in the clone maker's bankruptcy case, Psystar owes Apple $75,000. Apple and Psystar remain locked in a legal dispute over the latter's business of selling PCs with OS X installed.