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Capcom wins: Dead Rising lawsuit dropped; gets unexpected game review from Judge

Wii

- 14 hours and 14 minutes ago

p style="text-align: center;"img style="margin: 0px;" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module2/78837/deadrisingdance_qjgenth.jpg"/pbrEarlier this year, a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/capcom/107" id="tag" title="Game Developer"Capcom/a was sued by the MKR Group, the firm handling a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/george-a--romero/9665" id="tag" title="film director"George A. Romero/a's a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/zombie/5394" id="tag" title="an undead person"zombie/a films. The lawsuit accused a style="font-style: italic;" title="Xbox 360 - Dead Rising" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/Dead-Rising/cid/544"Dead Rising/a of being too similar to Dawn of the Dead. Just some of the similarities that MKR presented to the court:brolliBoth works are set in a bi-level shopping mall./liliThe mall has a gun shop, in which action takes place./liliThe mall is located in a rural area with the National Guard patrolling its environs./liliBoth works are set in motion by a helicopter that takes the lead characters to a mall besieged by zombies./liliMany of the zombies wear plaid shirts./liliBoth works feature a subtext critique of sensationalistic journalism through their use of tough, cynical journalists with short brown hair and leather jackets as a lead male character./liliBoth works feature the creative use of items such as propane tanks, chainsaws, and vehicles to kill zombies./liliBoth works are a parody of rampant consumerism./liliBoth works use music in the mall for comedic effect./lilispan style="font-style: italic;"Dead Rising/span's use of the word "hell" references the tagline for Dawn of the Dead's release ("When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.")./li/olYes, I know. Some of these "similarities" are a bit too tenuous to draw any irrefutable evidence from, and as far as the judge is concerned, the lawsuit is now ruled to be dismissed. It actually brings to mind Sony's recent a title="Sony slammed for 'copying' Sackboy costumes, explained as coincidence" href="http://www.qj.net/Sony-slammed-for-copying-Sackboy-costumes-explained-as-coincidence/pg/49/aid/126368"statement about similarities and coincidences in span style="font-style: italic;"LittleBigPlanet/span content/a, but moving on...brbrSpecifically, here's Judge Richard Seeborg's verdict:brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"[That MKR] has not identified any similarity between span style="font-style: italic;"Dead Rising/span and any protected element of Dawn of the Dead. Rather, the few similarities MKR has alleged are driven by the wholly unprotectable concept of humans battling zombies in a mall during a zombie outbreak./pbrThe key word here is "protected". And in short: the concept or plot device of zombies in a mall is span style="font-style: italic;"not protected/span by copyright. In fact, as the Judge says, it's span style="font-style: italic;"wholly unprotectable/span - no matter who you are or what you do. So, MKR can't sue Capcom for something that isn't protected.brbrMeanwhile, Capcom may have won the case, but at a rather sour note, the Judge also gave a stinging remark upon discussion of one of the similarities MKR accused of Capcom (i.e. Both works are a parody of rampant consumerism). According to the Judge:brbrp/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"To the extent that span style="font-style: italic;"Dead Rising/span may be deemed to posses a theme, it is confined to the killing of zombies in the process of attempting to unlock the cause of the zombie infestation. The social commentary MKR draws from Dawn of the Dead, in other words, appears totally absent from the combat focus found in span style="font-style: italic;"Dead Rising/span./pp/pbrOh. Judges are giving game reviews now?brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related articles:/spanbrulli style="font-style: italic;"a title="MKR Group finally sues Capcom over Dead Rising" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/MKR-Group-finally-sues-Capcom-over-Dead-Rising/pg/49/aid/114615"MKR Group finally sues Capcom over Dead Rising/a/lili style="font-style: italic;"a title="MKR Group and Capcom in legal brouhaha over Dead Rising" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/MKR-Group-and-Capcom-in-legal-brouhaha-over-Dead-Rising/pg/49/aid/113693"MKR Group and Capcom in legal brouhaha over Dead Rising/a/lilia style="font-style: italic;" title="Sony slammed for 'copying' Sackboy costumes, explained as coincidence" href="http://www.qj.net/Sony-slammed-for-copying-Sackboy-costumes-explained-as-coincidence/pg/49/aid/126368"Sony slammed for 'copying' Sackboy costumes, explained as coincidence/abr/li/ulbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=OI9h9wOW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=5cscgJpA"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=tijEVXc3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/wii/~4/4I2sNGol958" height="1" width="1"/

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From Moonrise to Sunset

Astronomy Picture of the Day

- 15 hours and 5 minutes ago

DIV ALIGN=CENTERa href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0811/Panoramica-luaSol-net.jpg" IMG SRC="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0811/Panoramica-luaSol-net.jpg" alt="See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available."/a /DIV DIV STYLE="max-width:40em"P P b From Moonrise to Sunset /b br bCredit a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply"Copyright/a:/b a href="http://www.astrosurf.com/astroarte"Miguel Claro/a P p b Explanation: /b In this panorama of Earth and sky recorded on Thursday, November 13, the a href="http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.php"Full Moon rises/a along the eastern horizon at the far left. Of course, the a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010219.html"Full Moon rises at sunset/a and that Thursday's a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080531.html"setting Sun/a was also captured at the far right. In between, 17 digital images are stitched together to follow the horizon to the south in a lovely twilight portrait of the city of a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080607.html"Lisbon/a, Portugal. The serene view takes in part of the longest bridge in Europe, the a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_Gama_Bridge"Vasco da Gama bridge/a, beneath the rising Moon and ends at the mouth of the Tagus River looking west toward the a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071222.html"sunset and/a the Atlantic Ocean. The photographer's vantage point was Lisbon's 100 foot high a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?t=hq=38.678611,-9.171389 ie=UTF8ll=38.678611,-9.171389spn=0.345744,0.333023 z=16g=38.678611,-9.171389iwloc=addr"Cristo Rei monument/a on the south bank of the Tagus, at the foot of the port city's other famous bridge, the a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070324.html"Ponte 25 de Abril/a. p P script type="text/javascript" digg_url = 'http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081122.html'; digg_skin = 'compact'; /script script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"/script /DIV

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Mechanism of phototaxis in marine zooplankton.

Nature

- 18 hours and 36 minutes ago

Publication Date: 2008 Nov 20 PMID: 19020621br/Authors: Jekely, G. - Colombelli, J. - Hausen, H. - Guy, K. - Stelzer, E. - Nedelec, F. - Arendt, D.br/Journal: Naturebr/br/The simplest animal eyes are eyespots composed of two cells only: a photoreceptor and a shading pigment cell. They resemble Darwin's 'proto-eyes', considered to be the first eyes to appear in animal evolution. Eyespots cannot form images but enable the animal to sense the direction of light. They are characteristic for the zooplankton larvae of marine invertebrates and are thought to mediate larval swimming towards the light. Phototaxis of invertebrate larvae contributes to the vertical migration of marine plankton, which is thought to represent the biggest biomass transport on Earth. Yet, despite its ecological and evolutionary importance, the mechanism by which eyespots regulate phototaxis is poorly understood. Here we show how simple eyespots in marine zooplankton mediate phototactic swimming, using the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii as a model. We find that the selective illumination of one eyespot changes the beating of adjacent cilia by direct cholinergic innervation resulting in locally reduced water flow. Computer simulations of larval swimming show that these local effects are sufficient to direct the helical swimming trajectories towards the light. The computer model also shows that axial rotation of the larval body is essential for phototaxis and that helical swimming increases the precision of navigation. These results provide, to our knowledge, the first mechanistic understanding of phototaxis in a marine zooplankton larva and show how simple eyespots regulate it. We propose that the underlying direct coupling of light sensing and ciliary locomotor control was a principal feature of the proto-eye and an important landmark in the evolution of animal eyes.br/br/post to: a href = http://www.citeulike.org/posturl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Fcmd%3DRetrieve%26db%3DPubMed%26dopt%3DAbstract%26list_uids%3D19020621title=Entrez+PubmedCiteULike/a

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Towering project is brought back down to earth

Gallery: The First Decades of Seeing the Unseen

Wired Top Stories

- 20 hours and 35 minutes ago

img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/1_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtpWhat are the social consequences when science allows us to see things that had previously been invisible?/pp Scientists have revealed microscopic life, nanoscale molecules and galaxies billions of light-years away. These images have revolutionized the disciplines in which they were made, but they also transformed the public's imagination, giving common people new things to think and dream about. /pp The intertwined social, scientific and artistic impacts of 19th century photography is the subject of a new exhibit, Brought to Light Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900, at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. /pp This gallery looks at some of the more astounding images and stories from the exhibit. /p pstrongLeft: br / Hermann Schnauss, Electrograph of a brass wire gauge, 1900/strong As the men of industry attempted to harness electricity for profit, the public â€” which knew electricity primarily as lightning â€” had to be persuaded that this powerful, invisible force was something to invite into their homes. Electrographs like this one, produced by exposing a photographic negative with electricity, helped the public visualize and understand the mysterious electromagnetic waves that scientists were discovered populating the air. /pp "This is a moment where [scientists] are trying to harness electricity for practical purposes, but the general public was kind of skeptical," said Corey Keller, curator of the Brought to Light exhibit. "Their experiences with electricity were generally through lighting, which they knew could burn things down and kill you, if you weren't careful. So a great deal of time and money was spent trying to make electricity understandable and approachable." /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/3_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApIn the early history of photography, capturing motion was out of the question. The photographic negatives of the time were not sensitive enough to light to be exposed over the short time periods required to capture fast action. /pp "If you look at 19th century cityscapes, you would think that Armageddon had taken place. You don't see any people," Keller said. "It's not that they aren't there, it's just that they don't show up because they walked through too quickly." /pp But by the end of the 1870s, more sensitive negatives brought motion within reach. Edward Muybridge was one of the first photographers to take advantage of the new abilities. /pp In this photo, we see one of Muybridge's motion studies: two men boxing in jock straps. Historians note that despite the scientific trappings, Muybridge's work was just art; it did not produce good scientific evidence about bodies' movements. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/4_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApThe ability to capture motion in photography opened up a previously invisible source of scientific data. Etienne-Jules Marey was a scientist trying to understand biomechanics, or the motion of the body, and he used photography to acquire information he couldn't get any other way, as in this photograph of a man on a stationary bicycle. /pp "What happens in this picture is that each split second exposure is layered on top of each other, so you get the sense of the full arc of the motion," Keller said. "And he's put a piece of tape down the arm and torso and the leg where the joints articulated, so as the leg went around and around the whole pedal stroke is outlined." /pp This wasn't just to create beautiful pictures; Marey was on a committee in France to improve the ergonomics of the newly popular bicycle. /pp "So by studying the motion of the leg, he would have been able to improve the engineering of the bicycle," Keller concluded. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/5_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApWhile forward-looking scientists like Marey were using photography to understand, for example, how animals moved, as in this photo, others were less enthused about this new technology. /pp In particular, photographers' ability to capture images beyond what the human eye could perceive called into question an important tenet of 19th century science. /pp "What's amazing is that this is a moment where empirical observation in science is the most important thing, that idea of objective observation. And this kind of photography proved how completely useless a human observer was," said Keller. "So you end up with this photographic data that cant' be corroborated in any other way. It exists independently of any kind of perceptual experience." /pp Technology's ability to capture detail and motion more accurately than our eyes has only accelerated, of course, as anyone who has seen a href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/water-falling-a.html"incredible ultra-slow-motion YouTube videos can attest/a. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/6_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApWhen William Roentgen announced his discovery of X-rays, a photo of his wife's hand accompanied his paper as it made its way into the scientific community. /pp Over the next few years, images like this one of a skeletal hand with the ring came to symbolize X-rays. Practically, the hand is relatively flat and therefore easy to X-ray, but it was the aesthetics and grim-reaper symbolism that Keller said hit a nerve with the upper classes. /pp "It became fashionable to have an X-ray portrait taken of your hand," she said, calling attention to x-ray hand portraits of the last tsar of Russia and his wife. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/7_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApThe discovery of X-rays also touched off a lower-brow commercial craze. Within three months, DIY X-ray kits were available on the market. Photographers, who had access to most of the tools needed to make the images, began to train this new form of light on just about anything that might be beautiful. /pp "They were X-raying everything just to see what it looked like," Keller said. /pp One stunning example is this X-ray of a foot in a shoe from 1897. In fact, the connection between X-rays and extremities has remained strong. Even into the 1960s, shoe stores kept X-ray machines in their lobbies, both as marketing tools and to help their salesmen fit their patrons' feet correctly. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/8_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApThroughout the second-half of the 19th century, photographers strived to unite the camera with the telescope. The moon, in particular, held a lasting fascination for astronomers and artists alike. /pp Imaging the moon, after all, was an immensely difficult task. The Earth rotates and the moon is actually a relatively faint object. It wasn't until John Adams Whipple and George Phillips Bond figured out how to rotate their camera ever so slightly to cancel out Earth's movement that simple images of our only satellite became possible. /pp What's interesting is that despite the fascination with creating pictures of the moon, like this striking image created in Spain, the images didn't add much for science beyond what detailed drawings could already do. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/9_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApIf you wanted close-up photos of the moon any time before the Apollo missions, you were pretty much out of luck. Unless, of course, you built incredibly detailed plaster models of lunar craters and then snapped carefully lit pictures of them. And that's exactly what an engineer and astronomer did in 1874 to tremendous acclaim. /pp James Nasmyth, the inventor of the steam hammer, and James Carpenter, then at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, released a hugely successful book, The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, illustrated by their incredible moon mock-ups. The august journal Nature gave the book a rapturous review. /pp "No more truthful or striking representations of natural objects than those here presented have ever been laid before his readers by any student of Science," the reviewer wrote. /pp But what's really appealing about the images isn't their "truthfulness" but their "truthiness." /pp "Astronomers were perfectly aware of what they were looking at," Keller said. "But they felt that because they were photographed, it added a layer of authenticity to the undertaking that simple drawings didn't have." /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/10_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApAt the other end of the scale of size from the moon, other photographers were pushing their discipline into the microscopic realm. They had to devise new emulsion chemistries and types of equipment to capture clear images of tiny things. /pp Leading the charge was Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch, who worked to overcome any challenge that scientists threw at him. Unfortunately, he died during social unrest in France in 1871, and his images lay in a photographic archive until Keller brought them to the US for the exhibition. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/11_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApEven as they solved technical challenges, the photomicrographers faced social resistance. The idea of representing a specific living thing instead of a generalized abstraction of an organism forced scientists to let go of long-held notions about their discipline. /pp "Prior to the 19th century, the scientific illustrations tend to represent a type, an ideal. So if you were going to do a picture of a flower, for example, the illustrator would look at 20 flowers and then take the common features and make an ideal flower," said Keller. "So, if that particular one happens to have a defective petal or something peculiar to it, you never really know: Does that photograph substitute then for that type of flower in general, or does it only represent that one specimen?" /pp While it may have posed a challenge for scientists of the 19th century, it's the unique nature of each photograph taken during this early period that wows us, even now. /pbr style="clear: both;"/ a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:cbbf63f1fb7e67b9e527dab439e4ba21:vhnm7352PkhDZ3b08Y2sMp4jzO%2FvufrreaVV1%2FrMy42ouvVreaTTDJcKqzYRuG4%2FgvMTMWdfcoiISQ%3D%3D'img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/facebook.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:3cf235586c06605892691e6a3cc9a6cb:7YUWc87MfIHrwmN9P9TT7ITHhbOVnGVHD5aVfAni2CwHKV3OjhBRXoUQPCYhFP0YAqd3k1E%2BIINZ'img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:699763cdf092463708984ca1c5702e58:bEbuTfq1BfCFGUCGXcjZyzj2%2BUs8JYt6eLxbw%2BRZPyloK9TZCe4fvvSwrlZP%2BZzee5meVRIX8gW2'img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:452d5247e5154eb1c537fb798e02025d:keBjN8UUXzm6OdqnEZk2bgxHIa%2FOmVXDvgbaX7IYXrGoPzG2vgzcUEAVnZm%2FCv8f61qPB2Dqa28%2B'img border='0' title='Add to Google' alt='Add to Google' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/google.png'//a br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=cdc22e1d5623ce9533eb24f0beb19af9p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=cdc22e1d5623ce9533eb24f0beb19af9p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=cdc22e1d5623ce9533eb24f0beb19af9" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?a=CwnoSm"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?i=CwnoSm" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~4/461399892" height="1" width="1"/

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Mise à jour de l’iPhone, la version 2.2 dans les bacs!

Benoit Descary

- 21 hours and 19 minutes ago

La mise à jour de l’iPhone est téléchargeable dès maintenant sur iTunes. Cette nouvelle version du firmware apporte plusieurs améliorations du système d’exploitation et quelques nouveautés. Des changements notables ont été apportés à l’application Plans qui intègre maintenant Street View (vue de rue) et les transports publics. Du côté des podcasts, il est désormais possible de les télécharger depuis l’application iTunes sur votre iPod.

Voyons donc en détail les principales améliorations qu’apporte cette mise à jour. À mon avis, la plus intéressante se trouve sur l’application Plans. L’implantation de Street View est très réussie. Pour y accéder, vous n’avez qu’à déposer un repère à l’endroit où vous désirez accéder à Street View. Une fois le repère en position, cliquez sur l’icône représentée par un bonhomme orange. Aussitôt Street View démarrera.

Lorsque vous créez un itinéraire, vous avez maintenant accès aux options transports publics et piétons. L’option transports publics fonctionne de la même façon que sur Google Maps. Vous obtenez la durée approximative et les heures de départ des prochains bus.

En ce qui concerne l’application podcats, il est possible de télécharger de nouveaux podcasts depuis l’application iTunes de votre iPod. Cependant, cette opération est possible uniquement lorsque vous êtes branché en Wi-Fi. Aucun téléchargement de podcast en 3G n’est permis. Dommage, car il me semble qu’il aurait été plus utile que cette nouveauté fonctionne en 3G. Remarquez qu’il est aussi impossible de télécharger ou de faire une mise à jour sur certaines applications plus lourdes. Je ne connais pas exactement la limite, mais cette impossibilité de télécharger des podcasts OTA découle sans doute des ententes avec les opérateurs téléphoniques.

L’une des choses qui m’irritaient profondément sur l’iPhone c’était le correcteur automatique, il était impossible de le désactiver. Sur la nouvelle version, vous pouvez enfin désactiver cette fonction. Si vous voulez désactiver la correction automatique, rendez-vous sur “Réglage”, ensuite, sélectionnez “Général” et enfin, cliquez sur “Clavier”.

Une amélioration intéressante, une pression sur le bouton d’accueil depuis n’importe quel écran où se trouve l’icône de vos applications, vous permet de revenir instantanément au premier écran d’accueil. En principe, vos applications favorites se trouvent sur le premier écran d’accueil.

Quelques autres améliorations, optimisations et corrections de bogues ont été apportées sur la nouvelle version du iPhone. Il manque toujours entre autres au iPhone les fonctions copier-coller et la possibilité de créer des répertoires pour y déposer les applications. L’écran d’accueil devient rapidement un fouillis avec l’ajout d’applications.
Plus de détails sur cette mise à jour ici.
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Mise à jour de l’iPhone, la version 2.2 dans les bacs!

Cellule de veille Web 2.0 Francophone

- 21 hours and 19 minutes ago

La mise à jour de l’iPhone est téléchargeable dès maintenant sur iTunes. Cette nouvelle version du firmware apporte plusieurs améliorations du système d’exploitation et quelques nouveautés. Des changements notables ont été apportés à l’application Plans qui intègre maintenant Street View (vue de rue) et les transports publics. Du côté des podcasts, il est désormais possible de les télécharger depuis l’application iTunes sur votre iPod.

Voyons donc en détail les principales améliorations qu’apporte cette mise à jour. À mon avis, la plus intéressante se trouve sur l’application Plans. L’implantation de Street View est très réussie. Pour y accéder, vous n’avez qu’à déposer un repère à l’endroit où vous désirez accéder à Street View. Une fois le repère en position, cliquez sur l’icône représentée par un bonhomme orange. Aussitôt Street View démarrera.

Lorsque vous créez un itinéraire, vous avez maintenant accès aux options transports publics et piétons. L’option transports publics fonctionne de la même façon que sur Google Maps. Vous obtenez la durée approximative et les heures de départ des prochains bus.

En ce qui concerne l’application podcats, il est possible de télécharger de nouveaux podcasts depuis l’application iTunes de votre iPod. Cependant, cette opération est possible uniquement lorsque vous êtes branché en Wi-Fi. Aucun téléchargement de podcast en 3G n’est permis. Dommage, car il me semble qu’il aurait été plus utile que cette nouveauté fonctionne en 3G. Remarquez qu’il est aussi impossible de télécharger ou de faire une mise à jour sur certaines applications plus lourdes. Je ne connais pas exactement la limite, mais cette impossibilité de télécharger des podcasts OTA découle sans doute des ententes avec les opérateurs téléphoniques.

L’une des choses qui m’irritaient profondément sur l’iPhone c’était le correcteur automatique, il était impossible de le désactiver. Sur la nouvelle version, vous pouvez enfin désactiver cette fonction. Si vous voulez désactiver la correction automatique, rendez-vous sur “Réglage”, ensuite, sélectionnez “Général” et enfin, cliquez sur “Clavier”.

Une amélioration intéressante, une pression sur le bouton d’accueil depuis n’importe quel écran où se trouve l’icône de vos applications, vous permet de revenir instantanément au premier écran d’accueil. En principe, vos applications favorites se trouvent sur le premier écran d’accueil.

Quelques autres améliorations, optimisations et corrections de bogues ont été apportées sur la nouvelle version du iPhone. Il manque toujours entre autres au iPhone les fonctions copier-coller et la possibilité de créer des répertoires pour y déposer les applications. L’écran d’accueil devient rapidement un fouillis avec l’ajout d’applications.
Plus de détails sur cette mise à jour ici.
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div style="margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 10px;"posted by Neil/div a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6L1zPW0YW7k/SSdHmeCUOwI/AAAAAAAAL9c/6ucLxvezjQQ/s1600-h/Coraline-movie-poster.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6L1zPW0YW7k/SSdHmeCUOwI/AAAAAAAAL9c/6ucLxvezjQQ/s400/Coraline-movie-poster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271260615083834114" border="0" //abr /There's an official CORALINE trailer out....br /br /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nZI3X8advPYamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nZI3X8advPYamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/objectbr /br /It's out in English, but this version of it is it in Italian. Because everything sounds better in Italian.br /br /A few of you have written in asking if I'd done an Alan Moore and taken my name off the film, or if I'd had a falling out with the studio, as my name isn't mentioned in this trailer, just Henry Selick's -- and no, not at all. Nobody's name except Henry's is mentioned in the trailer, and that has more to do with Focus wanting to make sure that if they invoked span style="font-style: italic;"The Nightmare Before Xmas/span, people wouldn't then assume this was a Tim Burton film, and go and see it -- or stay away -- based on that. (On the international poster -- above -- you won't find my namespan style="font-style: italic;" or /spanHenry's.) I suppose it's a marketing decision.br /br /I chatted to Henry today, and am really looking forward to seeing a finished film -- the last twenty minutes of the thing weren't done the last time I was sent anything. And it has music...br /br /Incidentally, thea href="http://www.amazon.com/Coraline-Movie-Collectors-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0061649708/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8amp;s=booksamp;qid=1227317385amp;sr=1-1" Coraline Movie edition /ais now out, with an essay by me in the back, and another by Henry Selick...br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513N7j%2Bs8bL._SS500_.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 500px;" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513N7j%2Bs8bL._SS500_.jpg" alt="" border="0" //abr /br /I've now assembled the same list of passwords for the CORALINE website -- a href="http://www.coraline.com/"www.coraline.com/a -- that a href="http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/683120.html"everyone else with access to a search engine has/a:br /br /span style="font-style: italic;"span style="font-weight: bold;"stopmotion /span: the Biggest Smallest movie ever made.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"buttoneyes/span : Meet the cast...br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"moustachio /span: Bo Henry, art director of Coraline, shows off his remarkable moustache tricks.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"armpithair /span: Every hair in the film was placed there by hand...br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"puppetlove/span : Director Henry Selick explains what it must be like for the puppets in the film.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"sweaterxxs/span : Micro-knitting. That's right: micro-knitting./spanbr /br /...br /br /A small collection of MAD fold-ins are up at a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/28/arts/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/28/arts/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html/a. I cannot imagine a better time-waster than if someone were to put every span style="font-style: italic;"Mad/span Fold-in up on line. I could click my way through them forever...br /br /...br /br /I've started playing with the T-mobile G1. First reactions -- I like it, mostly. It feels good in your hand. It's reasonably intuitive. (Bizarrely, when it isn't intuitive and I've had to head into manual land, the phone's software and the PDF of the manual do not always agree with each other.) I've had fun making ring tones, creating galleries. The way that your contacts list is also your Gmail contacts is mostly terrific (although it won't let me create entries that have the same email address as someone already on the list).br /br /The things I don't like about it so far seem huge and obvious: no Blogger app (when there's a LiveJournal app and several others) seems a huge omission, seeing it's from Google; it can't read or open PDF files yet; you can send it pictures and watch them as a slideshow, but you can't save them; the built in Gmail app can't do anywhere near the things that the gmail program on my N73 can do; the camera is about the same standard as the iPhone's, which is to say, a bit span style="font-style: italic;"meh/span. I like having a real keyboard but wish it was a tiny bit bigger -- I find myself typing with fingernails. Battery life is fine unless you've got Wifi on.br /br /More reactions after it's been on the road with me and been used for a bit.br /br /...br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Hi Neil,br /br /I just had a quick question on the span style="font-style: italic;"Who Killed Amanda Palmer/span book. I have the album already (and have listened to it countless times. It's beautiful).br /br /I was going to go and order the book, but when I went to the site, I found that the book seems to only be in packages. I was wondering if there are any plans to sell the book alone, or whether I should buy one of the packages. The extra CD could make a nice gift.br /br /Thanks,br /Nate/spanbr /br /Let's see... the book is being desgned right now, then it goes off to the printers. The people who bought the package version will get theirs first. Depending on where in the world it's printed, this could be a couple of months before anyone else. Then, when copies come in from the printer, they'll go on sale -- probably in the early Spring. I think.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Neil!br /br /I'm re-reading American Gods, and I'm at the point where Shadow first meets Sam. At the diner, Shadow reads a newspaper story saying "local farmers wanted to hang dead crows around the town to frighten the others away; ornithologists said it wouldn't work, that the living crows would simply eat the dead ones. The locals were implacable. 'When they see the corpses of their friends,' said a spokesman, 'they'll know we don't want them here.'"br /br /Neil, I don't have Time Enough for Love here at school, but wasn't there something very similar to that in that story? Was your dead crow story a little Heinlein homage?br /br /And OMG - just realized that Sam's last name is Black Crow, and that story was about crows. Wow. Sneaky of you.br /br /Chrisbr /br //spanbr /br /When I'm driving through small-town America I make a point of buying local papers in towns where I stop, and reading them, preferably in local coffee shops. I read that in a small town as I went, and thought "It belongs in my book". So I put it there.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Dear Mr Gaiman,br /I recently finished reading M is For Magic, and I have a question about the story Chivalry. Sir Galahad was considered the holiest of Arthur's knights; so, how coul he have obtained an apple from the garden of the Hespiredes? The Hespiredes were a part of greek mythology which was actually a religeon based on monotheism. So, how could he get something that his religeon said didn't exist? I am sorry to bother you with this question, but it has sparked my interest.br /br / - a young and curious reader/spanbr /br /He had to travel a long way.br /br /I don't think it would have been a problem for early Christians, of whom Galaad would have been one: in span style="font-style: italic;"The Golden Legend/span, which was the most popular book of stories about saints, collected in the thriteenth century, Saint Nicholas (the one who became Santa Claus) went up against the Goddess Diana. Then again, Narnia, a most monotheistic world, had more than its share of nymphs (just like the Hesperides) not to mention such gods as Bacchus and Silenus (and Santa Claus again) wandering around. So I would not worry about it, were I you.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"I loved the link to the Sandman Death 20th Anniversary Bookends you put up.br /When should they be coming out and how much of a dent will they put on my wallet, please?/spanbr /br /According to a quick Google, a href="http://www.toymania.com/news/messages/9960.shtml"http://www.toymania.com/news/messages/9960.shtml/a says they came out in September, and they will cost a wallet-twinging $295. (Ouch.) There are only a thousand of them.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"This one has almost nothing to do with you Neil, but since his website is still in the makings I thought you could perhaps forward this to him.br /I was very sad (like a child whose told there won't be a Christmas this year) to learn that Dave McKean's appearance this weekend in Buenos Aires was canceled.br /In the event's blog they posted Dave's email in which he mentioned he couldn't make it because a date was changed (which sounds reasonable). But it remained unclear if it was the date of ANIMATE (the Buenos Aires event) which was changed, or if it was one of Dave's previous engagements./spanbr /br /Dave McKean said...br /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Hi Neil,br /br /Please post this, as I certainly do feel very bad letting people down:br /br /I agreed to go to Animate in the summer and had to organize a militarybr /operation of friends and family to take care of our son Liam duringbr /the proposed week, as he is appearing as Gavroche in Les Miserables inbr /London and has to be accompanied to and from the theatre each day he'sbr /on, and also be available on 12 hours notice every day in case anotherbr /actor drops out.br /We managed this, so both Clare and I could make the trip to Buenosbr /Aires, a city we've always wanted to visit.br /Unfortunately, the date was changed by the organizers, and so we hadbr /to re-arrange.br /More importantly, it became obvious that the festival was nowbr /colliding with a variety of previous commitments falling in the latterbr /half of November, so I decided with great sadness to withdraw thisbr /year.br /I hate letting people down, and I was really looking forward to thebr /trip (though not the 24 hours travelling each way, I admit!).br /br /Hopefully there will be another event, an animation or film festival,br /that will allow me to visit the city in the future. Or maybe we'llbr /just go for a holiday, and do a signing in a bookstore.br /br /Thanks,br /Dave/spanbr /br /(I think it's worth pointing out that ten-year old Liam McKean -- owner of the original Pig Puppet -- is in span style="font-style: italic;"Les Miserables/span in London. If you happen to go and see it, check if he's in your performance. Get his autograph. Mention pigs. Make his day.) And that reminds me...br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Hi Neil,br /br /I thought you might like to let people know that Dave McKean is on the BBC4 programme "Picture Book" talking about his illustations for David Almond's 'The Savage' and how he was inspired by Comic Book's art. The programme is airing (again) at 19.10 on Saturday and 3.30 on Sunday, and is also currently available on the BBC i-player. a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fhnb6/comingup"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fhnb6/comingup/abr /br /Thank you again for all the stories,br /br /Marjorie/spanbr /br /You're welcome.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Hi,br /br /Just read that you completed "the Dying Earth story." Huh? Is there a new collection of Dying Earth stories coming out? Is it an homage to Jack Vance's work, or what?br /br /Did a search for "dying earth" on your website and saw no other mention of it.br /br /Thanks,br /Chrisbr /br //spanspanIt's for a href="http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PRODamp;Product_Code=martin07amp;Category_Code=PREamp;Product_Count=24"this/a./spanspan style="font-weight: bold;"br //spanbr /...br /br /And finally, Larry Marder talks about why a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/NEIL-GAIMAN-SANDMAN-Sketch-With-Larry-Marder_W0QQitemZ140282064832QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item140282064832amp;_trksid=p3911.c0.m14amp;_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318"the drawing we did together/a is so special at a href="http://larrymarder.blogspot.com/2008/11/neil-gaimanlarry-marder-drawing-up-for.html"http://larrymarder.blogspot.com/2008/11/neil-gaimanlarry-marder-drawing-up-for.html/a. div class="label_list" style="margin-top: 20px; padding-left: 15px; text-indent: -15px; font-size: 78%/1.4em; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: .1em;"strongLabels:/strongnbsp; a href="http://journal.neilgaiman.com/search/label/Coraline%20movie" style="color: #999; text-transform: uppercase;"Coraline movie/a, a h