Posts Tagged ‘quicktime’

Perian is a popular QuickTime Component, which adds several formats to QuickTime. This allows you to play everything from Divx to Flash Video inside of QuickTime, all with one simple tool. It’s great, and I wish Apple would incorporate as much of Perian as possible into QuickTime.
However, there is one problem. Perian replaces Apple’s H.264 [...]

A friend asked me what I thought of Windows Live Photosynth’s trendy error message when you pull it up on a Mac. It’s nothing new really, Windows Live has committed to supporting the Mac when it makes sense (even Live Mesh has promised Mac support).
But, I did within a few seconds come up with a much [...]

While I wrote that Apple didn’t need to fix the Mozilla Objection (where Apple began offering up Safari to users via Apple Software Update on Windows)… it appears they went ahead and fixed it anyways.
Under the new version, released alongside Safari 3.1.1, Apple Software Update 2.1 for Windows now separates new software and updates.
As you’ll see [...]

Apple Software Update now lists QuickTime 7.3.1 and GarageBand 4.1.1. Looks like the QuickTime update fixes that nasty RTSP exploit that was demonstrated on Second Life. Update away!
QuickTime 7.3.1
QuickTime 7.3.1 addresses security issues.
This update is recommended for all QuickTime 7 users.
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798
GarageBand 4.1.1
This update improves [...]

A lot of people are going to start flaring their arms up about Flash adding H.264 today. I think it’s a good thing, you should all head to Adobe.com and update right now. Competition is always good… well, except when your “competitor” sends you a letter saying that if you don’t pull the plug on [...]