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Go Directly From Your Video Camera Into QuickTime
There’s a very cool feature that sneaked into QuickTime Pro 7 that has kind of flown below the radar so far. It’s the ability to record directly from your digital video camera (or a microphone) right into a QuickTime file, without having to go through iMovie, Final Cut Pro, or a third-party application. Just connect your [...]
Continue reading...Fix Embedded Media in Safari QuickTime
23. March 2008
To fix a QuickTime-related problem with Safari, quit Safari and look in the/Library/Internet Plug-ins folder (this is the Library folder at the root level of your hard drive, not the one inside your Users/username/folder). Try removing the VLC Plugin.plugin (if you have it) and QuickTime Plugin. Plug-in files from this folder (start with any third-party plug-ins [...]
Continue reading...QuickTime in Web Pages
16. March 2008
A couple of significant QuickTime updates have recently caused problems for some users, in that movies embedded in Web pages aren’t being displayed — a QuickTime logo appears in the space allocated to the movie, but nothing further happens. A suggested fix involves a couple of items quite often associated with this kind of problem and [...]
Continue reading...QuickTime Control Tips
4. December 2007
The following control tips work with standard QuickTime movie windows: Play — Double-click on image Pause — Single-click on image Play backward — Shift/double-click on image Single Step — Left, right arrows Volume — Up, down arrows Toggle Play/Pause — Space, Return Toggle Sound Mute — Option/Click on speaker icon Select Section of Movie — [...]
Continue reading...QuickTime Startup Movie
4. December 2007
Put a movie file in your System Folder and call it “Startup Movie.” QuickTime will play it when the QuickTime extension loads.
Continue reading...QuickTime and AfterDark
4. December 2007
To avoid a potential conflict between QuickTime and After Dark, load QuickTime first by placing an Option-Space before the Q in QuickTime.
Continue reading...Startup Shortcut
4. December 2007
Do you use certain programs or documents all the time? If you put their aliases in the Startup Items folder, System 7 will open them automatically at startup time. Want your Mac to play a favorite sound (or several, in alphabetical order) when you turn it on? Drag the appropriate sound file(s) into the Startup [...]
Continue reading...Do You Need FPU?
4. December 2007
Do you worry about whether or not your Mac, or your next Mac, has an FPU chip or FPU circuitry on your logic board? Let me save you some money. Most you you do not need FPU. Here are things most of us do that do not need the FPU: All word processing All page layout applications [...]
Continue reading...System 7.5 Facts
4. December 2007
System 7.5 is coming soon. What is it? How is it different/better? Here are a few facts: QuickDraw GX speeds up document scrolling and image movement and includes a “drag-and-drop” printer icon. To print a document, just drag it to the icon. AppleScript allows you to automate procedures in programs. For instance, you can set a script [...]
Continue reading...Startup Screens
4. December 2007
To clear up a common misunderstanding, Startup Screens do not go in the Startup Items folder. A StartupScreen must be named exactly that (no spaces), and placed loose in the System Folder. Incidentally, if you have QuickTime installed, you can have a QuickTime movie run on startup. You can do this in a couple of [...]
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Antiglare Display Option For 15-inch MacBook Pro Now Available
If you prefer a display with antiglare coating for a matte rather than glossy viewing experience, an antiglare display is now available as a configure-to-order option on all 15-inch MacBook Pro models. This display has a silver aluminum bezel, which is the same as the 17-inch antiglare MacBook Pro display.Google CEO Schmidt leaves Apple board
In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs cited potential conflicts of interest in explaining Schmidt’s resignation.
“Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings,” he said.
Apple is racing to offer a portable tablet-sized computer in time for the Christmas shopping season, in what the entertainment industry hopes will be a new revolution.
via Financial Times.
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