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Mac 101: Using Home Sharing in iTunes 9

by Megan Lavey (RSS feed) on Sep 22nd, 2009



Home Sharing is one of the fantastic new features in iTunes 9, and one that slipped between the cracks in our coverage in the days after the software was released. Sang Tang showed us how to use FireWire to speed up transfers over your network, but this is a basic overview of how Home Sharing works and how you can use it to easily share media files to different computers in your household.

This video was made using the new screen recording option in QuickTime X, which proved to be extremely easy and useful.

Tags: home sharing, HomeSharing, itunes 9, Itunes9, quicktime x, QuicktimeX, screen recording, ScreenRecording, video, youtube

Filed under: OS, Software, TUAW Tips, Snow Leopard

A pawful of quick Snow Leopard tips

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Aug 31st, 2009

As all of us are starting to get familiar with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, we're starting to find little features that aren't immediately visible and are pretty cool!

My first surprise came when one application asked me to make sure that my date and time settings were correct. I dutifully popped into System Preferences, clicked on the Date & Time preferences pane, clicked on the Time Zone tab, and noticed a couple of things that were different:
First, the time zone I'm in (Mountain) was highlighted and as I moved my cursor left and right, a "ghost" appeared for whatever time zone I was currently over (see arrow above). That in itself wasn't anything great, but the check box at the top -- Set time zone automatically using current location (see oval above) -- was intriguing so I clicked on it. The map went to shades of gray, and then Snow Leopard used the SkyHook Wireless's Wi-Fi positioning service to figure out where I was.

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Tags: mac os x 10.6, MacOsX10.6, quicktime x, QuicktimeX, snow leopard, SnowLeopard, system preferences, SystemPreferences, tips

Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Video, Software Update, Snow Leopard

QuickTime X leaps forward in Snow Leopard

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (RSS feed) on Jun 8th, 2009

Seems like only yesterday that QuickTime was at version 7. Oh wait, that was yesterday. Among the many announcements surrounding Snow Leopard we saw a little more of QuickTime X, Apple's next-generation version of the venerable media player/technology/doohickey. While the interface has been totally overhauled, the changes are more than skin deep.

QuickTime X is a significant update. For consumers, there won't be a Pro version. Any version will allow simple editing, video/audio capture, and allow you to "publish your media to MobileMe or YouTube -- without worrying about codec formats or resolutions." We're not sure if you'll be able to save as a QuickTime movie or source file as before, but the removal of some previous limits will make QuickTime the snappy iMovie substitute it could be. Plus, QuickTime X will allow you to use any web server to stream live video over HTTP. Can't wait to see what people do with that.

In addition to the visible changes, QuickTime X looks like a fundamental rewrite of the application and its underpinnings. Support for Core Audio, Core Video and Core Animation could mean some really interesting things for the future of media playback (not that we weren't promised as much a few years ago, of course). All of this comes wrapped up in Snow Leopard, and takes full advantage of the speed-tuning tech therein.

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Tags: audio, codec, mobileme, quicktime, quicktime x, QuicktimeX, server, snow leopard, SnowLeopard, streaming, video

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