ATTO has released five 6Gbps SAS host adapters varying mainly on port configurations. The company claims the new devices deliver the fastest SAS/SATA host-bus transfer rates on the market, with the high-end 16-port H60F and H6FO carrying two independent controllers that support a maximum of 512 devices, with 16 lanes of 600MBps connectivity for a throughput of 19.2GBps full duplex....
MP3 moves on to Lossless
Thomson launched a new format, the mp3HD. Its this name hides a new format that is supposed to be lossless , i.e. does not lose any information compared to the original. Of course, the files explode in size, the encoding being done with data flows ranging between 500 and 900 Kbits/s. A 4 minute file of music will be 14 and 26 MB.
This format wants to be retro-compatible with the immense installed base of readers able to read MP3. They will be able to restore these files, but with a quality less than the really compatible apparatuses.
Remain to be seen if Apple will make an effort to include this format in its next iPods. Nothing is less sure. Even though MP3 were impossible to circumvent at the launch of the first iPod, Apple has since done everything to push AAC or the Apple Lossless.
Fontcase 1.1 for Mac adds more metadata, support
Bohemian Coding on Friday released Fontcase 1.1, the newest version of its font manager application for the Mac OS X. Designed to tag, control and organize font, the software focuses a lot on metadata and allows users to add a variety of metadata for every font and weight. The update provides a versatile plug-in interface to help extend the application, the ability to now analyze the languages a f...
JavaScript 3-10x Faster On iPhone OS 3.0
There has been a reasonable amount of speculation surrounding JavaScript speed improvements in iPhone 3.0. Testing carried out on the iPhone Simulator bundled with the SDK didn’t lead to a conclusive outcome, but benchmarking done by Wayne Pan would seem to suggest that iPhone 3.0 handles JavaScript 3x-10x faster than iPhone 2.1.
ATTO launches five 6Gbps SAS host adapters for Mac
ATTO has released five 6Gbps SAS host adapters varying mainly on port configurations. The company claims the new devices deliver the fastest SAS/SATA host-bus transfer rates on the market, with the high-end 16-port H60F and H6FO carrying two independent controllers that support a maximum of 512 devices, with 16 lanes of 600MBps connectivity for a throughput of 19.2GBps full duplex....
MP3 moves on to Lossless
Thomson launched a new format, the mp3HD. Its this name hides a new format that is supposed to be lossless , i.e. does not lose any information compared to the original. Of course, the files explode in size, the encoding being done with data flows ranging between 500 and 900 Kbits/s. A 4 minute file of music will be 14 and 26 MB.
This format wants to be retro-compatible with the immense installed base of readers able to read MP3. They will be able to restore these files, but with a quality less than the really compatible apparatuses.
Remain to be seen if Apple will make an effort to include this format in its next iPods. Nothing is less sure. Even though MP3 were impossible to circumvent at the launch of the first iPod, Apple has since done everything to push AAC or the Apple Lossless.
Fontcase 1.1 for Mac adds more metadata, support
Bohemian Coding on Friday released Fontcase 1.1, the newest version of its font manager application for the Mac OS X. Designed to tag, control and organize font, the software focuses a lot on metadata and allows users to add a variety of metadata for every font and weight. The update provides a versatile plug-in interface to help extend the application, the ability to now analyze the languages a f...
JavaScript 3-10x Faster On iPhone OS 3.0
There has been a reasonable amount of speculation surrounding JavaScript speed improvements in iPhone 3.0. Testing carried out on the iPhone Simulator bundled with the SDK didn’t lead to a conclusive outcome, but benchmarking done by Wayne Pan would seem to suggest that iPhone 3.0 handles JavaScript 3x-10x faster than iPhone 2.1.
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