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Finding and converting legacy media 3: Movies and more

How to use the Finder to locate movies which need to be converted for future compatibility, and converting them with QuickTime Player/

March 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

Finding and converting legacy media 2: Embedded in Keynote presentations

When converting legacy formats relying on QuickTime 7 for decoding, don’t forget movies and images embedded in presentations.

March 27, 2019 Macs, Technology

Finding and converting legacy media 1: still images

Later this year, in macOS 10.15, one of the media types which will become unsupported is JPEG 2000 still images. Here’s how to find and convert your old images.

March 26, 2019 Macs, Technology

Housekeeping for speed and profit

Migration brings old software which isn’t really incompatible, but can slow your Mac down. This one was caught during startup.

December 18, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Reinventing the Mac

Fire up your eGPUs, engage Dark Mode, and open Xcode: our Macs are once again going to be at the centre of invention and reinvention.

June 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

Is Apple about to drop QuickTime, DVD and iWork support, and Compressor?

Apple has started the process of naming and shaming those apps which still don’t run in 64-bit mode, […]

April 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Getting going with HEIF/HEIC and HEVC image and movie formats

The first tools to write HEIF still image and HEVC movies are now starting to arrive. Do they confirm their potential? Are they ready to use yet?

October 26, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Endtime for QuickTime?

In 1996, QuickTime had no serious competition, was very cross-platform, elegant, and highly practical. Yet now it is dying.

April 22, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Whatever happened to QuickTime?

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It may have become QTKit, but QuickTime is still going strong, and now 24 years old.

December 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

Movie Formats and Conversion

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There is nothing so frustrating as watching a great movie but being unable to save it, or watch it on your iPad or Apple TV. It all comes down to formats.

May 4, 2015 Macs, Technology

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