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Apple/Mac, Computers/Technology

When Gates met Jobs

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If you watched any of the dreadful Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul you will probably remember a series of sketches they did imagining Steve Jobs and Bill Gates meeting at a party. They are two of the biggest names in the industry, and haven’t appeared together on stage for more than 20 years. Steve Jobs company is running an advertising campaign lampooning key products of Bill Gates to the extent that PC magazines feel they have to run articles defending the PC. As a result how the two get on together is a subject of much speculation, especially as despite all of this, Microsoft is the largest developer of Mac software outside Apple.

With all the speculation, it is impressive that the D5 conference has managed to get the two men together on stage. The full session runs for well over an hour, and is available in seven parts with a prologue. If you don’t have that much time, check out the highlight reel which includes a number of gems and little snippets.

Steve Jobs also gave a solo interview – check out that video for a classic Jobs line when challenged with the point that via iTunes, Apple is one of the biggest Windows software developers…

“That’s right. … It’s like offering a glass of ice water to people in hell.�

Update: You can now get the entire session with Gates and Jobs as a single download from iTunes.

Apple/Mac, Computers/Technology, Music

Wohoo, Got the Sparkle Back!

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If like me you had Volume Logic installed into iTunes, despite the new toys in the recent iTunes 7 update, the biggest issue would have been the fact that the update broke Volume Logic.

If you’ve never heard the difference, you’re probably wondering what the issue is, but believe me, you can hear the difference between a track playing with and without the plug-in activated. Without, the sound is pretty flat, probably the best description I can think of to describe how it sounds with the plug-in turned on and the right set-up selected (there are multiple set-ups for different types of music) is that it just sparkles.

Anyway, I’ve been keeping an eye on the Volume Logic site, as they’ve gone through a private beta process trying to nail down and fix the problem. The annoyance is that although there has been generally positive response, there has been a significant group of beta testers who have hit problems, and the public beta is still on hold.

However, in an attempt to find out if there were any more details on what is going on, I did a search on Google, and came up with this page that includes a copy of the private beta, together with a link for reporting bugs, so I’ve given it a go, and so far it seems to be working fine, and suddenly all my music has got it’s sparkle back!