Adium X 1.2 has come out of beta, a complete changelog of the changes are available: here. This release requires atleast Mac OS X 10.4.0 in order to work, and has seen Adium move to libpurple 2.3.1 and has improved Jabber and Bonjour support.
Nvidia Corp., the world’s largest designer of discrete graphics
processing units (GPUs), reportedly plans to update its lineup of
expensive graphics cards with at least two new offerings later in the
quarter. The most powerful of the novelties will carry two graphics
chips, whereas another will feature single-chip designs.
The new
top-of-the-range graphics card by Nvidia is called GeForce 9800 GX2
which is based on two yet unknown 65nm graphics chips with 128 unified
shader processors inside. The board, according to [H]ard|OCP
web-site, will be 30% faster compared to Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra and
will enable 4-way multi-GPU configurations. The novelty will have 256
stream processors in total, but will rely on driver support to
demonstrate its potential, just like any multi-GPU solutions.
Warner Borthers Studios has officially dropped HD-DVD support in favour of Blu-ray essentially, ringing the death knell for HD-DVD, as Warner is the largest Movie Studio.
Up until now, Warner Brothers have produced all it's films on both HD-DVD and Blu-ray, but from May 2008, will only release Blu-Rad and standard DVD versions of it's film releases.
According to AppleInsider, Macworld 2008 will bring Blu-Ray to Mac OS X, what exactly it will bring, just data access? or HD Movies? hopefully the latter, in my opinion, but I would much rather see Apple invest time and effort in bringing a Dual format drive as I don't want to see Blu-Ray get used and then vanish off the face of the planet.
Blu-Ray appears better for the consumer as it supports larger capacities, features a hard coating to prevent damage, and Blu-Ray movies support higher peak bitrates, but can everyone remember Betamax? superior to VHS but still disappeared into obscurity.
