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The Hand That Feeds 1.0.band

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Cool!

Trent Reznor has released NIN’s latest single as a GarageBand file.

From the README:

For quite some time I’ve been interested in the idea of allowing you the ability to tinker around with my tracks – to create remixes, experiment, embellish or destroy what’s there. I tried a few years ago to do this in shockwave with very limited results.

After spending some quality time sitting in hotel rooms on a press tour, it dawned on me that the technology now exists and is already in the hands of some of you. I got to work experimenting and came up with something I think you’ll enjoy.
What I’m giving you in this file is the actual multi-track audio session for “the hand that feeds” in GarageBand format. This is the entire thing bounced over from the actual Pro Tools session we recorded it into. I imported and converted the tracks into AppleLoop format so the size would be reasonable and the tempo flexible.

You can get the file here.

Mac OS X 10.3.9

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Mac OS X 10.3.9 was released yesterday. There have been several posts on the WOProject, WO Developer, and Java lists that indicate that this update borks Java 1.4.2 for some people. I wasn’t going to upgrade, but I read that the update includes Safari 1.3. Safari 1.3 includes support for contentEditable and designMode so, I’m interested in trying it out.

I shutdown all of my applications, backed up my boot drive (I like SuperDuper!), downloaded the combo updater, crossed my fingers, and let it rip. So far, so good, every thing is running well.

Eclipse fires up fine, and my current projects all run without any issues.

As documented on Surfin’ Safari, Safari 1.3 is very fast. It does seem to have issues with Google Maps though, and I cannot find documentation on getting the HTML editing to work (none of the Mozilla/Midas-based examples light up).

Why Apple insists on releasing OS and Security updates on Friday is beyond me though.

Update: Changing the User Agent to MSIE via the Debug menu in Safari seems to allow Google Maps to function again.

Apple Yorkdale opening Tomorrow?

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According to page 5 of todays Metro news, Apple’s Yorkdale store is opening tomorrow (here is a 10MB download of today’s issue).

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This seems to be confirmed by the Yorkdale site as well. Although last time we were there, the store was miles away from completion. Should I line up now?

Update: Yup, looks like the Apple Store is just included in the Yorkville marketing by default. The store is still looks far from completion (along with many of the other "40 new stores").

Core Data

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More and more details are becoming available about Core Data. I’ve mentioned it in the past, but with little detail due to the NDA nature of the information. However Apple has now published an extensive overview (thanks bbum).

I am hoping that this gets people really excited. I’m hoping that they start building cool data-driven Cocoa apps because they get this cool stuff for free. I’m hoping they go: “Gee this is neat! I wish we could build web-apps this way too.”

Because, then I could show them WebObjects. ‘Cause you know, you can.

G5 – –

Posted on by david

New PowerBooks… They max out at 1.67GHz G4.

Decent speed bump, and some nifty new technologies – scrolling trackpad for instance. Hopefully this will quell the G5 PB rumours for a week or two… Oh, I forgot about the conspiracy theorists.