Au moins, il n’est pas toxique !

Inutile de vous dire que ce dock “artisanal” se vend nettement plus cher que celui d’Apple.

Cette photo tiens, sortie des archives. Déjà à l’époque (et là on parle d’il y a vraiment longtemps), il faisait de la retape pour ses machines portables.

Increvable le vieux.

Image obtenue depuis ce site Japonais qui vieillit les photos.

Via Compétence Mac

Il n’y a pas à dire, les pigeons sont nuls en jeux vidéo. Mais ils y mettent de la bonne volonté.

Plus sérieusement, il faut aussi saluer le succès de Tap Tap Revenge qui, même s’il ne permet plus de jouer sur sa musique depuis qu’il est distribué par l’App Store (Apple ne le permet pas), vient de dépasser le million d’installations, comme Facebook.

Si Forbes ne rectifie pas le tir prochainement, ça va faire une bonne blague belge avec tous les sites US qui vont annoncer que l’iPhone se vend pratiquement aussi bien en Belgique qu’aux États-Unis…

via Danny Choo

Chaque personnalité politique a son profil. Un exemple parmi tant d’autres : Christine A. dont le statut est “très vexée qu’on ait découvert à temps sa faille DNS. Un peu plus et elle éradiquait tous les pirates. D’un coup“. On y apprend entre autres que son livre de chevet est Le Rapport Olivennes et que son style de musique est “Celle avec des DRM“. Sur son mur, un message d’un certain Nicolas S :

Dans les statuts, Dominique DV. indique ne jamais avoir eu de relations sexuelles avec cette Claire Strim, Ségolène R. affirme qu’elle ne fera plus appel aux Gentlemen du déménagement, Bertrand D. avoue être à la recherche de sable à pas cher pour Paris Plage et un certain Olivier B est mécontent, car les seules signatures qu’il obtient c’est pour ses colissimos. Bref, un site à prendre au quatrième degré.

Il y a même quelques allusions à Apple. Ainsi, on apprend que le livre préféré d’un certain François B. est “Pomme d’API” tout en précisant que “ça n’a rien à voir avec le développement d’interface pour Mac OS”. Un certain Jacques C. écrit sur son failbook : “Quand j’ai dit “Mangez des Pommes”, j’ai même pas reçu de MacBook pour l’effort promotionnel. Apple = radasses“.

Tant qu’on est à parler politique (enfin presque), on tenait à faire un “peu de pub” à Lobo qui depuis des années s’est spécialisée dans le fake d’images politiques.

Il a sorti récemment La Retouche, un livre qu’il présente comme le 1er catalogue de vote par correspondance. Au menu de ce grand catalogue : des vêtements top mode, des articles santé/beauté innovants, de la musique enivrante, des jeux vidéo interactifs, du cinéma explosif, de la lecture passionnante, des cadeaux surprenants et des services indispensables !

Sachant que c’est un peu de notre faute si il a switché, il méritait bien un petit coup de pouce !

—- Original Message —-
From: Bill Gates
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
To: Jim Allchin
Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poole; Brian Valentine; Anoop Gupta (RESEARCH)
Subject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flame

I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don’t drive usability issues.

Let me give you my experience from yesterday.

I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack … so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there.

The first 5 times I used the site it timed out while trying to bring up the download page. Then after an 8 second delay I got it to come up.

This site is so slow it is unusable.

It wasn’t in the top 5 so I expanded the other 45.

These 45 names are totally confusing. These names make stuff like: C:\Documents and Settings\billg\My Documents\My Pictures seem clear.

They are not filtered by the system … and so many of the things are strange.

I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in movie. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing.

So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is this Moviemaker download? Does it exist?

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

They told me to go to the main page search button and type movie maker (not moviemaker!).

I tried that. The site was pathetically slow but after 6 seconds of waiting up it came.

I thought for sure now I would see a button to just go do the download.

In fact it is more like a puzzle that you get to solve. It told me to go to Windows Update and do a bunch of incantations.

This struck me as completely odd. Why should I have to go somewhere else and do a scan to download moviemaker?

So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. (Not) just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes.

Doesn’t Windows update know some key to talk to Windows?

Then I did the scan. This took quite some time and I was told it was critical for me to download 17megs of stuff.

This is after I was told we were doing delta patches to things but instead just to get 6 things that are labeled in the SCARIEST possible way I had to download 17meg.

So I did the download. That part was fast. Then it wanted to do an install. This took 6 minutes and the machine was so slow I couldn’t use it for anything else during this time.

What the heck is going on during those 6 minutes? That is crazy. This is after the download was finished.

Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night — why should I reboot at that time?

So I did the reboot because it INSISTED on it. Of course that meant completely getting rid of all my Outlook state.

So I got back up and running and went to Windows Update again. I forgot why I was in Windows Update at all since all I wanted was to get Moviemaker.

So I went back to Microsoft.com and looked at the instructions. I have to click on a folder called WindowsXP. Why should I do that? Windows Update knows I am on Windows XP.

What does it mean to have to click on that folder? So I get a bunch of confusing stuff but sure enough one of them is Moviemaker.

So I do the download. The download is fast but the Install takes many minutes. Amazing how slow this thing is.

At some point I get told I need to go get Windows Media Series 9 to download.

So I decide I will go do that. This time I get dialogs saying things like “Open” or “Save”. No guidance in the instructions which to do. I have no clue which to do.

The download is fast and the install takes 7 minutes for this thing.

So now I think I am going to have Moviemaker. I go to my add/remove programs place to make sure it is there.

It is not there.

What is there? The following garbage is there. Microsoft Autoupdate Exclusive test package, Microsoft Autoupdate Reboot test package, Microsoft Autoupdate testpackage1. Microsoft AUtoupdate testpackage2, Microsoft Autoupdate Test package3.

Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.

But that is just the start of the crap. Later I have listed things like Windows XP Hotfix see Q329048 for more information. What is Q329048? Why are these series of patches listed here? Some of the patches just things like Q810655 instead of saying see Q329048 for more information.

What an absolute mess.

Moviemaker is just not there at all.

So I give up on Moviemaker and decide to download the Digital Plus Package.

I get told I need to go enter a bunch of information about myself.

I enter it all in and because it decides I have mistyped something I have to try again. Of course it has cleared out most of what I typed.

I try (typing) the right stuff in 5 times and it just keeps clearing things out for me to type them in again.

So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven’t run Moviemaker and I haven’t got the plus package.

The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don’t you just love that root certificate message?)

When I really get to use the stuff I am sure I will have more feedback.

Rien de bien étonnant à tout cela, la vocation première d’un Apple Store n’est pas de vendre des palettes entières Mac Pro, mais de faire la promotion des produits Apple auprès du grand public. Il est rare de nos jours qu’un particulier investisse dans une machine dont la première configuration démarre à 2499 € sans parler de l’écran…

Mais plus que l’étude, c’est l’exploitation qui en a été faite par certains. On lit ici «La fin du Mac Pro ?». Non, mais sérieusement…

On peut les critiquer, mais il y a des tas de choses qu’on ne peut faire qu’avec un Mac Pro. D’ailleurs, avez-vous déjà vu beaucoup de Xserve dans un Apple Store ? Doit-on s’inquiéter ?

Tout cela promet pour la sortie des applis officielles !