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Google Flash commitment

February 22, 2012

Some people think that Google is an open-source giant, that is naturally against proprietary software. It’s all but true. The whole google stack of software is proprietary, or proprietary adaptations of open-source software, and as a web-company, they need it to have an edge over challengers. Google push Flash on multiple ways since years, and they ensure you could not use some of their websites without having Flash Player (as a browser plug-in or integrated in Chrome). Google YouTube YouTube send only Flash video to PC/Mac browser, even if the browser don’t have the Flash player. They have H.264 version playable by FireFox, but they don’t send it, they just do it for Mobile platforms (iPhone, iPad, etc). The main point is to ensure you will install Flash Player, because everybody use YouTube at one point. Having H.264 playable content, YouTube may stream it when a browser is not Flash-enabled. Instead Google choose to ask you to install Flash. This is not a matter of content-delivery, it’s a matter of forcing users to install Flash! Google Analytics There’s many technologies to display simple graphs, notably using Ajax and HTML5. Instead, Google choose to use Flash exclusively, so if you choose

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1 year of thunderbolt

February 19, 2012

Don’t miss out our edition of Friday, February 24, to celebrate one year of Thunderbolt with you: what Intel and Apple promised, what works, what is flawed (and why), and why one year after it’s apparition in the MacBook Pro, 18 months after being finalized on PC platforms and demonstrated on final computers, you don’t find peripherals, nor adapters for mainstream peripherals. Only on Mhackintosh.com next Friday!

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Steve Jobs rare footage of 1980

February 16, 2012

Watch Steve Jobs talking about personal computers and all the new possibilities it opens for anyone.

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Apple as a Content distributor

January 21, 2012

Apple is known to sold Mac, iPod, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV. You may use them for whatever you want, even send email or work on a spreadsheet, but ultimately it’s not what interest Apple. The new Apple is no more a computer company, a new direction was taken by Steve Jobs when he renamed Apple Computer to Apple. It was not to mean that Apple will sell computers, smartphones, music players, tablets or whatever, the real meaning was Apple switched it’s focus from it hardware+software stack to the content itself. Mac might be used to access Content, display them, play them, create them, wether it’s iOS Apps, Mac Apps, music, video or even books. iOS devices are meant to access Content, through this new giant distributor, Apple and it’s online store. PC could be used to access content too, with iTunes for PC. We all see the emerging business-model where iOS devices are more and more present, the iPad being the brightest success of the industry, on a market that nobody seemed to understand until Apple unveiled it! But this market is not about selling tablet only, but an eco-system. With the huge success of iTunes Store being the first

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Why we fight against SOPA and PIPA?

January 17, 2012

We are not a rogue web-site, we don’t host or link to copyrighted content, nor we endorse these activities. Mhackintosh.com is committed to Mac hacking, we don’t share file, we don’t link to file-sharing websites usually, we will even host ourselves our own developped Mac software. So we produce content, copyrighted content, and as such we like the idea of being protected against illegal copy or use of our work. Being a copyrighted content producer why fight SOPA and PIPA? There’s too many reasons to explain them all here, I suggest you follow the link ( http://americancensorship.org/ ). One reason is that any form of censorship is bad, that censorship in hands of private corporate hands is worse, and censorship in hands of abusers is the worst things of all. And they have already have done that, abuse censorship systems that some web site offers to majors. They abused the system, and they will have huge power to shutdown any site for any reason, without having to justify themselves! Another reason is that these law will offer the ability for any tradmarked brand or copyrighted content to shutdown any website, or even websites that links to these websites, at any

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