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• Vastly improved playlist support
• Flash Screen Video support
• User definable Lua playlist scripts
• New video output filters
Additionally, VLC media player 0.8.6c supports the playback of the following video formats: MPEG-1/2, DIVX (1/2/3), MPEG-4, DivX 5, XviD, 3ivX D4, H.264, Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime), DV, Cinepak, Theora (alpha 3), H.263 / H.263i, MJPEG (A/B), WMV 1/2, WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1, Indeo Video v3 (IV32), Indeo Video 4/5 (IV41, IV51), Real Video Download
Times Online notes the increase of Apple stock value after Apple clarified the iPhone’s features:
Apple today announced that iPhone will deliver significantly longer battery life when it ships on June 29 than was originally estimated when iPhone was unveiled in January. iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback.* In addition, iPhone will feature up to 250 hours - more than 10 days - of standby time.
Apple also announced that the entire top surface of iPhone, including its stunning 3.5-inch display, has been upgraded from plastic to optical-quality glass to achieve a superior level of scratch resistance and optical clarity. [...]
iPhone will be available in the US on June 29, 2007 in a 4GB model for $499 (US) and an 8GB model for $599 (US), and will work with either a PC or Mac. iPhone will be sold in the US through Apple’s retail and online stores, and through AT&T’s select retail stores.
*All Battery claims are dependent upon network configuration and many other factors; actual results may vary. See http://www.apple.com/batteries for more information. Music capacity is based on four minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding; actual capacity varies by content. More …
While this is reported by Mac Scoop as the minimum requirements to run the developer’s DVD (handed out at WWDC), it would not be surprising that the G3 would be excluded as a recommended platform in the final version.
• an Intel processor or a PowerPC G4 or G5 processor
• a DVD drive
• built-in FireWire
• at least 256 MB of RAM for a Power-PC based Mac and 512 MB for an Intel-based Mac (additional RAM is recommended for development purposes)
• a built-in display or a display connected to an Apple-supplied video card supported by your computer
• at least 6 GB of disk space available, or 8 GB if you install the developer tools More …
This KB article tells how to clear the any extraneous or older applications from the “Open With” contextual menu (control-click). This menu selection list can get so long that it is not convenient use. More …
Note: Contextual menus are more accessible with a two button mouse, where the alternate button is set to control-click.
After releasing the last performance patch a few weeks ago, we have not rested and we have eliminated another set of performance bottlenecks in NeoOffice’s underlying OpenOffice.org code and fixed those bottlenecks by replacing the OpenOffice.org code with code that is optimized specifically for Mac OS X.
As a result of our fixes, text layout and drawing speed is now 2 to 2.5 times faster than it was in the last patch. Put anther way, laying out a document’s text is now done in 40% to 50% of the time. While users who use only short documents may not notice much change, users with large text-based documents will notice much smoother scrolling, faster relayout of the document when changes are made, less CPU usage, and shorter print times. More …
Mozilla released Thunderbird 2.0.0.4, the open source mail and news reader. A security update, the main vulnerability addressed involves a weakness in APOP authentication.
Always remember, the IRS or the Better Business Bureau will never email you about anything. They will write you a letter. PC World has an article about how each is used in an attempt to gain control of a PC. The email includes an attachment which gives access to the PC. It is not clear if this can affect a Mac, me think not. At any rate, it requires the user to activate it. More …
With less than two weeks till its release, in poll reported by CNET it is predicted there would be 19 million iPhone sold, which is about 20 times the number of sales normally expected for a new cell phone. Research firm M:Metrics said Friday that the 67 per cent of US consumers most inclined to purchase an Apple iPhone are subscribers on networks other than. Just what AT&T is hoping for. If this proves to be true, Verizon could be the most sorry. More …
Apple has announced that over one-million copies of the Windows versions in its first two days of availability. Apple claims Safari 3 is the fastest browser running on Windows, rendering web pages up to twice as fast as IE 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. More …
The long wait for promised Mac versions has been tiring. If you watched the Keynote, this wait is supposed to be over, as there is to be simultaneous releases for Mac and PC versions. That is not to happen by all game suppliers. Apparently, EA is to use an “interpreter” which allows the PC version to run on the Mac’s Intel hardware. As reported by BusinessWeek, not all Mac game producers will follow EA’s example. but not clearing up the muddy waters. Aspyr will continue to port over the PC games to the Mac, a very long process. More …
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