Plus de bruit !

Alors ça c’est une bonne nouvelle. Quelques jours après la sortie de Reason 3.0 dont je parle plus bas dans cette page, voici arriver Renoise, en version 1.5 et avec une mouture Mac OS X. La vie est belle. Je vous laisse même la news d’origine tiens, have fun. Et bon download.

Renoise 1.5 Released: « Anonymous Coward writes ‘Depending on how old school you are, or how nerdy you are… ‘the ancient art of tracking is now possible on our platform of choice. After six months of beta testing and bug fixing, Renoise 1.5 FINAL has been released. Using proven music tracker concepts and technology with a pedigree running back to the days of the Amiga, Renoise fully supports MIDI and embraces modern and limitless VST/VSTi plugin technologies. Before you go blasting the arcane interface as unusable, check out this tutorial. It’s a lot easier than you imagine.‘ »

(Via MacSlash.)

Ho les cons (bis)

Nokia ne veut pas s’avouer vaincu et annoncerait donc une N-Gahahage 2 bientôt. Evidemment les rumeurs de spécifications sont déjà sur le Net. Enjoy. (Les pauvres).

Possible N-Gage 2 specs?:N-Gage QD

Alright, we know for sure that Nokia’s already working on a successor to the N-Gage QD, presumably to be unveiled within the next few months at E3. …Still reading? Then I infer that you care enough about the N-Gage to want to take a peek at some reportedly leaked N-Gage 2 specs, courtesy of an uber-obscure freewebs gaming site. Fake? Most probably. An indication of things to come? Perhaps. Confusing to those not well-versed in hardware? Definitely.

– OMAP Full Compatibility
– 90-nm CMOS System-on-a-Chip OMAP2420
– 330-MHz Central Core with Floating Point Unit ARM1136JS-F
– 220-MHz Digital Signal Processor for Audio TMS320C55x
– Video Playback and Image Display Imaging Video Accelerator
> VGA 30-fps Encode/Decode Full-Motion Video
– 2D/3D Graphics Accelerator with SIMD Co-Processor PowerVR MBX with VGP
> TBDR (Tile Based Deferred Rendering)
> 200Mhz clock speed
> 640×480 VGA Resolution
> 360Mpixels, 2xOverdraw = 720Mpixels, 3xOverdraw = 1.08Gpixels
> ITC™ – PowerVR Internal True Colour – 32-Bit Blending and Depth Test Precision Independent from Buffer Depth
> FSAA4Free™ – Supersampling Full-Screen Anti-Aliasing With No Performance Lose
> DOT3 Per-Pixel Lighting Support
> Spherical Harmonics Lighting Support
> Bilinear, Trilinear, Anisotropic Texture Filtering Support
> Vertex Shader 1.1 Programmability with Skinning
> Curved Surface Processing with Fractional Tessellation and Support for Differing Levels-of-Detail on Neighboring Patch Edges
> PVR-TC (PowerVR Texture Compression)
> Multi-Texturing
> Fully Programmable 3D T&L (Transform & Lighting)
> Over 2.5M-tri/sec

If anyone out there with a working knowledge of hardware would like to elaborate, your efforts would be greatly appreciated. Mmm, floating point fractional tessellation… accelerator… filtering… pie.

[via GameSpot + Joystiq].

Trop pratique

Un adaptateur USB – IDE trop pratique ? Yes please !

Simple USB to IDE Adapter:

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The days of not-so-expensive drive enclosures are over. On Friday, we passed up the opportunity to report on an interesting new adapter from Japanese vendor Evergreen. The ‘DN-IDE3525’ is an extremely straightforward approach to getting any IDE device attached to your PC via USB 2.0. Plug the USB cable into your PC, plug the other end of the cable into the IDE drive (like a hard drive or DVD writer), and you’re good to go. To hell with dust protection — who needs it anyway? The adapter is compatible with both 2.5′ and 3.5′ drives, so no worries there.

Product Information [Shanghai Donya]

(Via Gizmodo.)

PSPcasting

Si la PSP avait une durée de vie de plus de 5 minute dans le RER, ce soft pourrait faire la joie des futures possesseurs de cette machine. Deux problèmes : déjà, il faudrait qu’elle sorte chez nous (juin au plus tôt aux dernières nouvelles), ensuite il faudrait qu’on importe le savoir vivre japonais avec…

Variation On A Theme: PSPcasting:

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Sajeeth Cherian has developed a new application called PSP Video 9, allowing simple conversion and management of your video files into PSP’s format. Combined with Videora, his simple BitTorrent software, the package will comb your RSS feeds for your favorite ‘PSPcasts’, download them over BitTorrent, convert them to PSP-playable format and upload them to your docked PSP, all without any intervention on your part.

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could automatically download, convert and copy … videos to your PSP for later playback? Well now you can.

Cherian’s deemed this ‘PSPcasting’ and it could very well catch on in the blogging world and beyond, as a way to carry along newscasts, TV episodes and the like. PSP Video 9 is freeware and Videora 1.0 sells for $23.

PSPcasting Explained [PSPVideo9 via GigaOm]
Videora Page [Videora]
PSP Video 9 Page [PSPVideo9]

(Via Gizmodo.)