Finale, the main competitor of Sibelius, has already gone universal earlier in Dec. 2006. I dislike ugly things, especially ugly GUI and hard-to-use programs, so although both are standard notation programs, I never got into Finale (it has this 90s amateurish look to it with all the aqua orbs and faux-metal).
Besides the transition to UB, there are a few interesting things among the new features introduced. The new Panorama view let you view the score without the limitation of pages, which is what I always wanted. Often you want an overview of the whole score and having to worry about page layouts and spacing is very cumbersome. This seems to be something Finale had for a while and Sibelius should definitely have from the start. Apple's Garageband has something similar in its editor, but it isn't really a notation app, and doesn't output any scores.
The new idea hub to collect motifs and musical ideas and the support for VST/Audio Units are cool, but for Intel Mac user like me the universal binary is probably the biggest improvement.
More at What's new in Sibelius 5
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oh, and by the way, to answer Vikki's question about anonymous questions, the test page is up: Ask Ivy (PHP page running on filefest mirror).
Note: This post is intentionally removed of useful information for unspeakable reasons. Meanwhile, the reason this is tagged Apple is left as an exercise to the reader.
Here's another one:
It's very peculiar that we have a ten year old sticky
shipped with OS X Tiger in 2006.
1997 was a pivotal year in Apple's history, NeXT was acquired by Apple in
Feburary 1997 along with Jobs' return. At the 1997
Macworld conference, which is in August,
announcement was made of the Microsoft deal and
the new board (The
Mac Observer: July, 1997 Archive). However,
the first version of OS X is released two years
later, Server 1.0, which is the old
Platinum interface on top of the OPENSTEP
operating system from NeXT; and the consumer
version, 10.0, another two years later in 2001
after a public beta. The developers probably wrote
the sticky just days before the Macworld, and in
the early stage of building os x on top of
OPENSTEP.
Interestingly, the classic Mac OS 8 was released just three
days before the sticky, on July 26th 1997.
First, on the custom trailer page that every one knows about:
The same widgets are seen on iTunes page and Mac
page as well, as an aid to the unusual horizontal
scroll bars:
It is still not clear if this widget is part of the iPhone-only version of Apple.com, or that it is actually part of Safari 3's webkit engine. While I suspect it is the former, it would be really cool if this is done by iPhone-Safari on-the-fly for scroll bars on regular webpages.
More at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (Via DaringFireball)Mr. Prime, I am going to remind you again: Your policy with GEICO only reimburses you for accidents that occur while you are engaged in the reasonable use of your truck and trailer. As I told you when you originally purchased the policy, GEICO does not offer Megatron coverage, Starscream coverage, Soundwave coverage, Decepticon coverage, or Energon-blast coverage. Those are just not the types of damages we would expect from reasonable use.