Perian. The swiss-army knife for QuickTime: “Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.” (via)
Entries Tagged as 'os x'
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
January 10th, 2008
Wired, The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry: “It was a late morning in the fall of 2006. Almost a year earlier, Steve Jobs had tasked about 200 of Apple’s top engineers with creating the iPhone. Yet here, in Apple’s boardroom, it was clear that the prototype was still a disaster. [...]
Tags: apple · iphone · os x · steve jobs
X Lossless Decoder
November 8th, 2007
X Lossless Decoder: Lossless audio decoder for Mac OS X
Tags: ape · audio · cue · flac · lossless · m4a · mac · mp3 · ogg · os x · wav
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review
October 29th, 2007
John Siracusa: “I started this review talking about expectations. As I’ve learned more about Leopard, it’s become increasingly clear where, exactly, those two-and-a-half years of development time went. Leopard is absolutely packed with improvements. It seems that not a corner of the OS has gone untouched. Perhaps that’s not as clear to the casual user [...]
Mac OS X Leopard
October 27th, 2007
Mac OS X Leopard Dave Winer: “There isn’t much you can do, after the Mac has been around for 23 years, that hasn’t already been done.” John Gruber: ‘The most significant new feature in Leopard is Time Machine.’ Jason Snell: “As with every OS X update since version 10.1, there’s no single feature in Leopard [...]
Lock It Up
October 9th, 2007
MacWorld, I will keep my Mac safe from other users Use admin accounts for administration only Don’t share user accounts Turn on password prompts Encrypt sensitive files
Radioshift
October 4th, 2007
Rogue Amoeba – Radioshift: “With Radioshift, you control Internet and AM/FM radio from around the world. Listen and record – Radioshift is radio on your schedule!”
Tags: os x · radio · radioshift · web