Apple issues EFI Firmware, iPhoto, QuickTime updates
Thu, Oct 27, 2011 - Apple on Wednesday issued EFI Firmware updates for its Thunderbolt-equipped iMac, Mac Mini, Macbook Pro and Macbook Air computers, as well as minor updates to QuickTime for Windows and iPhoto. ( 11 comments )
Apple issues Quicktime 7.7 for Windows, Leopard and updates printer drivers
Wed, Aug 3, 2011 - Apple on Wednesday issued QuickTime 7.7 for Windows and Mac OS X Leopard, as well as a batch of driver updates for printers and scanners from Samsung, HP and Brother. ( 27 comments )
Apple updates QuickTime; MobileMe improvements coming next year
Tue, Dec 7, 2010 - Apple issued a routine security update to its QuickTime media player for Windows and Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 Tuesday. Meanwhile, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has reportedly promised significant improvements to MobileMe in 2011 in an email to a customer. ( 46 comments )
Adobe Flash contributes largest number of security patches in Apple's Mac OS X 10.6.5
Wed, Nov 10, 2010 - Apple has detailed the security issues patched by Mac OS X 10.6.5 and the corresponding Security Update 2010-007 for Mac OS X 10.5, indicating that more than half of the security vulnerabilities in Mac OS X actually affect the Adobe Flash plugin and X11. ( 26 comments )
Brightcove adds support HTTP Live Streaming for Apple iOS devices
Tue, Nov 2, 2010 - Internet video host Brightcove, among the first to begin supporting iPhone-compatible H.264 video and HTML5, is now moving to support Apple's open HTTP Live Streaming format as well, hammering another nail into the coffin of Adobe Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight. ( 21 comments )
Apple's iTunes cloud playback from MobileMe iDisk gets noticed
Wed, Aug 4, 2010 - Nearly a month after Apple added support for background audio playback from its MobileMe service to the free iOS iDisk app, a flurry of interest has swirled around the feature. ( 22 comments )
Apple testing Safari 4.0.5 with Flash plug-in crash protection
Fri, Mar 5, 2010 - Apple is currently evaluating a handful of upcoming Mac software updates with the help of an elite group of testers, including Safari 4.0.5, QuickTime 7.66, and significant maintenance release for its pro applications. ( 48 comments )
Apple hit with streaming media patent infringement suit
Thu, Feb 11, 2010 - Apple and its rival Microsoft are both the targets of lawsuits from an Israeli technology group, which has alleged that both companies infringe on patents it owns pertaining to streaming media. ( 58 comments )
Hulu to make videos available on iPad without Flash - rumor
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 - Hulu is rumored to be working on an iPad-friendly version of its site which could be ready by the iPad's March launch date. ( 190 comments )
Apple posts QuickTime video of CEO Steve Jobs' 'iPad' keynote
Wed, Jan 27, 2010 - Apple Wednesday evening made available through its Web site a QuickTime video stream of its media event during which its new tablet device, dubbed the "iPad" was introduced to the public by CEO Steve Jobs. ( 31 comments )
Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: QuickTime X
Tue, Sep 1, 2009 - As jingle-pundits desperately try to denigrate Snow Leopard as a "Service Pack," Apple's new operating system reference release actually expands the reach of the Mac platform in several important and under-reported new directions. Here's the first in a series looking closer at some of Snow Leopard's well-known, but often misrepresented or misunderstood features. ( 89 comments )
Snow Leopard Golden Master seeded to Apple developer community
Wed, Aug 12, 2009 - Apple has supplied its broad developer community the presumed Golden Master build for Snow Leopard, going beyond the select group who previously had sole access, numerous sources tell AppleInsider. ( 33 comments )
Embedded content gets new look with Apple's QuickTime X
Mon, Aug 3, 2009 - Apple is reportedly exploring a new design interface for Web-embedded content in QuickTime X, eschewing the current gray palette and adopting a sleek, black look for the controls while viewing media. ( 46 comments )
Apple launches HTTP Live Streaming standard in iPhone 3.0
Wed, Jul 8, 2009 - One of the more overlooked features of the new iPhone 3.0 is support for a new open standard for live video streaming over HTTP, which promises to open up standards-based video broadcasting to a wide audience while giving mobile users an optimized picture as they roam between WiFi and mobile networks. ( 57 comments )
Ogg Theora, H.264 and the HTML 5 Browser Squabble
Mon, Jul 6, 2009 - Pundits are roasting Apple over a scuffle raised by Mozilla and Opera to define the free Ogg Theora video codec as the official way to present video on the web in the new HTML 5 specification. The problem: HTML isn't supposed to define content codecs, and even if it were, Ogg Theora, commercially abandoned nearly a decade ago, doesn't have what it takes to deliver video on the increasingly mobile web. ( 138 comments )
Apple releases iTunes 8.2 and QuickTime 7.6.2
Mon, Jun 1, 2009 - Apple on Monday released iTunes 8.2, a new version of its media cataloging software with support for the upcoming iPhone Software 3.0 release. It was accompanied by a recommended maintenance update for QuickTime 7.6. ( 48 comments )
Apple building YouTube support into Snow Leopard
Mon, Apr 27, 2009 - Apple will further its endorsement of YouTube and open video standards by building support for the Google-owned video sharing service into one of its flagship applications due to ship later this summer as part of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. ( 88 comments )
Snow Leopard to offer screen recording via QuickTime X Player
Fri, Apr 24, 2009 - With the introduction of Snow Leopard, QuickTime Player will assume more of a utilitarian role, with screen recording features reportedly joining the software's exiting repertoire of basic audio and video capture capabilities. ( 48 comments )
iTunes 8 users grapple with missing Dolby surround sound
Tue, Mar 10, 2009 - Viewers hoping to hear 5.1-channel Dolby audio from movies and TV shows on Apple's iTunes Store are being frustrated by a known bug that disables the surround feature in software. ( 33 comments )
A peek at Apple's new QuickTime X interface
Sat, Mar 7, 2009 - A widely reported interface overhaul making its debut in early betas of QuickTime X Player distributed with pre-releases of Apple's Snow Leopard operating system this week is reportedly not much to write home about. ( 149 comments )
Snow Leopard's QuickTime may pack Pro features at no cost
Tue, Feb 10, 2009 - An architectural overhaul to Apple's QuickTime media software due as part of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard may ship with a media player that bundles once-premium features at no cost. ( 67 comments )
New QuickTime 7.6 addresses quality, security
Wed, Jan 21, 2009 - Apple just released the new QuickTime 7.6, which includes updates for encoding quality, reliability, compatibility, and security enhancements. ( 25 comments )
QuickTime 7.5.7 allows SD iTunes playback over DisplayPort
Tue, Nov 25, 2008 - Calming a controversial situation, Apple on Tuesday night released a new QuickTime update that allows standard definition iTunes movies to play over the new MacBooks' DisplayPort to older displays. ( 38 comments )
Apple's QuickTime 7.6 to improve 5.1 surround sound
Wed, Oct 22, 2008 - With an influx of Dolby Digital enhanced HD content making its way to the iTunes store, and subsequently Apple TV, Apple is reportedly working on an update to QuickTime that will improve support for 5.1 channel audio. ( 20 comments )
Apple to unleash first builds of Snow Leopard since WWDC
Tue, Sep 30, 2008 - Apple is quietly preparing to equip some of its developers with the first pre-release copies of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard since an inaugural build was issued to attendees during its annual developers conference in June, AppleInsider has learned. ( 43 comments )
Notes on iTunes biz, App Store, iPod biz, Jobs, new iPod hands-on
Tue, Sep 9, 2008 - Apple today provide updates to some key statistics surrounding its music business and the App Store. Jobs later appeared on CNBC to address concerns about his health (again). And the first hands-on encounters with the company's new iPod line touch on some finer details of the new iPod touch, its Nike+ integration, and the fourth-generation iPod nano. ( 37 comments )
Road to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: 64-Bits
Tue, Aug 26, 2008 - Next year's 10.6 reference release of Mac OS X promises to deliver technology updates throughout the system without focusing on the customer-facing marketing features that typically sell a new operating system. Here's a look at what those behind-the-scenes enhancements will mean to you, starting with new 64-bit support. ( 102 comments )
First shots of Mac OS X Snow Leopard show desktop web apps
Sat, Jun 21, 2008 - Although announced less than two weeks ago, screen captures of a Mac OS X Snow Leopard test build show the ability to create web apps in Safari 4 and an update to Address Book with hooks into Microsoft Exchange. ( 53 comments )
Apple updates iTunes, QuickTime, Front Row
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 - Apple on Wednesday night updated three of its key media applications for Mac OS X to mend their compatibility and apply bug fixes. ( 34 comments )
Apple releases QuickTime 7.4.1 for Leopard, Tiger and Panther
Wed, Feb 6, 2008 - Apple on Wednesday released QuickTime 7.4.1, a recommended security update for all users of QuickTime 7.0 running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.4.9 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Vista. ( 24 comments )
Apple issues iTunes, QuickTime, Front Row, iMovie updates
Tue, Jan 15, 2008 - To support iTunes movie rentals and other features, Apple has rolled out a bevy of new patches for its media playback tools. Also, the firm has slipped in an iMovie fix. ( 19 comments )
Road to Mac OS X Leopard: QuickTime, iTunes, and Media Features
Thu, Oct 25, 2007 - In addition to the new searching, browsing and back up features for office documents (Finder, Dock, Quick Look, Cover Flow, Spotlight, Time Machine) and new support for collaborative information sharing (Mail, iChat, iCal, Server), Mac OS X Leopard also advances support for audio and video media in QuickTime, iTunes, Photo Booth, Front Row, and other applications. Here's what's new in Leopard and where the ideas behind rich media on the desktop came from. ( 20 comments )
