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Dear Aunt TUAW: Apple TV and oddball video formats

by Erica Sadun (Oct 7th, 2010)

Hey Auntie TUAW, I just ordered my new Apple TV, and have a ton of footage in MKV, AVI, etc. which probably won't work with iTunes, let alone my Apple TV. What can I do to batch convert and import all my movies to iTunes, which will work with Apple TV and be as high-rez as possible? With ...

Did you catch that? Event livestream is Mac and iOS only

by Michael Rose (Sep 1st, 2010)

Most of you noticed something a bit... oddly specific about Apple's streaming announcement for the 9/1 event: Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple's industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running ...

Mac 101: Using Home Sharing in iTunes 9

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (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 ...

A pawful of quick Snow Leopard tips

by Steven Sande (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 ...

QuickTime X leaps forward in Snow Leopard

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (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 ...

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