Samsung preps 23.6-inch, 50K:1 contrast LCD
Samsung has finished its efforts on Friday with news of the 2494HS, its newest desktop LCD. The display relies on an unusual 23.6-inch panel that runs a native 1920x1080 resolution suited to 1080p movies but also manages an exceptionally high 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio comparable to TVs rather than computer displays. Accordingly, Samsung mounts stereo speakers on the LCD's chin and gives it...
published on Friday, the 21. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
LG, Sharp, Chunghwa pay $585M for LCD price fixing
The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced that LG Display, Sharp Corp. and Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. plead guilty to criminal accusations of conspiring to fix prices in the sale of LCD panels and agreed to collectively pay $585 million in fines. LG will pay the majority of that amount, or $400 million, which is the second-highest criminal fine the DoJ's Antitrust Division has ever impo...
published on Wednesday, the 12. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Sonic Studio introduces media server Amarra
Sonic Studio has demonstrated its new Amarra music server at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver. Amarra is a FireWire-based media server handling PCM audio with up to a 192KHz bitrate that uses a Sonic Studio soundBlade derivative on the software side. The Amarra technology is similar to what is used to produce CD master files, promising audiophile-level music playback. It uses hardware side ...
published on Wednesday, the 15. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
BurnAgain FS 1.1 update adds Tiger support, more
Freeridecoding has released a v1.1 update to its multi-session CD/DVD burning utility, BurnAgain FS. The patch adds Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger support and a German localization, as well as improvements to the software's file-removing feature. FS treats CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs like hard drives, mounting them as a volume on the desktop for adding files, changing disc titles and "erasing" files...
published on Wednesday, the 8. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
Dell bows new-look S1909WX, S1709W LCDs
Dell brought the newer, rounded designs of its larger displays to the entry level on Tuesday by introducing the 19-inch S1909WX and the 17-inch S1709W. In contrast to the 16:9 ratio S2409W, the new LCDs use a more traditional 16:10, 1440x900 resolution but share design traits of their larger sibling, including a cleanly designed back and a detachable stand that lets owners use a VESA mount for di...
published on Tuesday, the 30. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
Lenovo trots out six green computer LCDs
Lenovo today began a sweeping update of its ThinkVision desktop LCDs that all focus on more eco-friendly performance. The 17-, 19-, 22-, and 24-inch displays largely use a new technique that improves the amount of light reaching the LCD while cutting down on the amount of backlighting needed, improving their power use between 30 to 60 percent depending on the model. A new range-topping model, th...
published on Wednesday, the 17. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
Philips intros thin HDTV, iPod/DVD sound system
Philips introduced a suite of new electronics at the IFA 2008 consumer electronics show headlined by a new extremely thin HDTV thus far known only as the Essence. At less than 1.5 inches thick, the Essence features a 120Hz 42-inch LCD display with a response time of 2 milliseconds. Philips even includes a self-leveling mounting kit with the Essence, which moves the speakers, tuner and video and p...
published on Thursday, the 28. August 2008, macintosh-news-network
Virtualize Mac OS X Client on VMware Fusion
VMWare Fusion 2.0 beta2 supports virtualizing Mac OS X Server as a guest OS. If you try to install a Leopard Client guest, however, you get an error: "The guest operating system is not Mac OS X Server." However, if you create an ISO/CDR image from your Leopard install DVD, mount it, then do this in Terminal... touch "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Library/CoreServices/ServerVersion.plist" After running that command, unmount the image. You can now use that image to install Leopard Client into VMware Fusion with no complaints. After you install, reboot VMware Fusion from the install DVD ISO again, launch Terminal, and run this command: touch "/Volumes/Macintosh H...
published on Friday, the 8. August 2008, macosxhints
10.5: View exactly which files Time Machine backed up
You may occasionally notice Time Machine is backing up an unexpectedly large amount of data, or maybe you're just curious as to what actually changed between backups. Perhaps you'd like to tailor your exclusion list to keep the backup size down. Unfortunately, the Time Machine interface provide no means to find out what it is actually being backed up. Luckily, we can use the fact that Time Machine creates hard links of unchanged files to explore what it did back up, after the fact. timedog is a Perl script (4KB download) which does just that. Use it like so: $ cd /Volumes/TM/Backups.backupdb/myhost $ timedog -d 5 -l By default, timedog will examine the most recent backup, compare it to the one prior, and report all changed files. The -d flag controls the direc...
published on Thursday, the 17. July 2008, macosxhints
Mount CD-ROMs as a Windows user would see them
Have you ever had a CD-ROM that showed different files on different OSes? Such as a Maple12 install CD-ROM for Windows that doesn't show any files in MacOS. There are several different ways this can happen. A common way is to make a hybrid CD-ROM with multiple filesystems using the same data. Another way is with a multi-session CD-ROM. Sometimes in MacOS you need to see what the Windows user sees. The following method deals with the hybrid case. Optical disks, and images of optical disks, have various backwards-compatible file systems. The basic file system is ISO9660, and there are several revisions of it. All revisions are generically known as ISO9660. There are also extensions to ISO9660 for specific operating systems. MacOS uses an HFS filesystem extension, Windows uses an extension known as Joliet, and Unix uses an extension known as RockRidge. MacOS understands all these and more, but prefers its native HFS. If a CD-ROM has an HFS extension, the Mac will automaticall...
published on Thursday, the 10. July 2008, macosxhints