Filed under: Multimedia, Software Update, Security
QuickTime 7.6 addresses security issues
QuickTime 7.6 is in the wild. Released today via Software Update and on Apple's support site, the new version "includes changes that increase reliability, improve compatibility and enhance security." It also makes your whites whiter and your brights brighter while helping you avoid embarrassing social situations.
More details via the update page:
Video: Improves single-pass H.264 encoding quality; Increases the playback reliability of Motion JPEG media
Audio: Improves AAC encoding fidelity; Audio tracks from MPEG video files now export consistently
Application Support: Improves compatibility with iChat and Photo Booth
As far as the security updates are concerned, the word from Ryan Naraine at ZDnet is that this patch closes several potentially serious holes that could have been exploited by malicious URLs or custom-payload movie files to execute code on target machines. Four of the seven issues addressed in this update were reported to Apple via the Zero Day Initiative, which encourages responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities by providing cash bounties for the researchers involved.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
This tip could
definitely be classified as rudimentary to some, but I thought it would be handy to shed some light on a folder in the
Home directory that is rarely opened by many users: the Library. For those who sometimes wonder things such as where
Safari stores your bookmarks or where Mail.app keeps all those messages you never reply to, your Library folder is
calling your name. The Library in your Home folder is where Mac OS X stores all the data you enter into almost any and
every application you use. Take a look at ~/Library/Safari, for example (the (~) stands for your Home folder). In there
is just about everything Safari stores for you, including your bookmarks and history. There are plenty of other handy
folders to check out in your Library, such as the Fonts folder which stores all the fonts you install, but I think the
real meat of the Library is the Application Support folder. This is where most applications will store their
information, such as Adium extras, Camino/Firefox bookmarks, NetNewsWire subscription information and the database file
iWeb uses to create your website.
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