A set of application-level (AL) specifications designed to simplify the creation and distribution of multimedia software — including audio, video and imaging functionality — across multiple platforms. That sounds quite a bit like Apple’s AL multimedia specification (writ large).
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Apple continues to build out the features (and fluff) in their does-everything jukebox, content, store and device management application. With Jobs and his famed “reality distortion field” off stage, let’s take a closer at the guts of today announcements to separate the digital wheat from the marketing chaff.
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Apple’s taken a lot of heat for the features it took out of QuickTime as part of the transition to version “X.” However, they knew the criticism was coming, so Cupertino included a copy of QuickTime 7 to keep the critics at arm’s length, but that just leaves us with two half measures.
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Have you made the leap to Cupertino’s latest spotted feline festooned operating system? Although I’ve only been using Mac OS X 10.6 for a week, I’m really quite pleased with how it’s running and some of the neat little features I’ve discovered. Click through for some insight, tips and just plain old-fashioned fan boy cup-runneth-over joy.
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Adding yet another feature to Apple’s already absurdly bloated media jukebox, management, storefront and device manager application doesn’t strike me as reasonable, let alone a slam dunk. With Snow Leopard and QuickTime X arriving next month, why wouldn’t the mothership just add Blu-ray support to its simply reliable DVD Player or QuickTime Player?
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How cool is the Mac? Only as cool as the people using it. Or, alternately, as cool as the stuff people are inspired by Apple’s stylishly fast computers to create.
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Perhaps the old adage that, “There’s no such thing as a free puppy,” should be updated to read, “There’s no such thing as free porn.” Social engineering at work…
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Watch Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, unveil the new iPhone 3G S, the new MacBook Pro family, and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. See the video-on-demand event right here, exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG-4 and, now, Apple’s posted the downloadable podcast, as well.
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It’s road trip time again, and that means I need to scrunch another bunch of movies and cartoons for playback on our family’s iPod touch and iPod nano—gotta keep the kiddies transfixed. Here are four AVI to MP4 conversion solutions that will get that job done with varying degrees of speed and finesse, one of which is sure to meet your technical and budgetary needs.
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Apple’s next generation operating system release could be arriving as soon as the June Worldwide Developer Conference. Regardless of the timing, it is believed the Cupertino, CA-based computer, widget and software maker will eliminate a longstanding fee—a thorn in the side of Mac users for years.
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