Apple has just released iTunes 9 and the web is full of reviews that compare the new version to previous ones and outline the changes and new additions that Apple has packed into the new version of their popular music management software. The new version does not offer that many new features but most users [...]
Install iTunes Without Quicktime And Bonjour
Apple’s iTunes software will only install and run if additional Apple products are installed on the computer system as well. This includes Apple Quicktime and Bonjour. A user installing iTunes will notice that the installer will also install Quicktime and Bonjour on the host system with no obvious option to opt out of their installation.
There [...]
IM over a LAN
There are plenty of IM networks available but most must connect to a remote server, something which is unnecessary for a business, school or home network and lowers the network’s performance. It also makes IM impractical on networks not connected online for security reasons.
Some IM networks can easily be adapted to run on a LAN. [...]
Au Revoir, Bonjour!
If you have installed Apple software on your computer system running Windows lately, or software from Adobe or a few other software developers, chances are that you already have a service running called Bonjour which is responsible for the process mdnsresponder.exe that appears in the Windows Task Manager.
Bonjour enables automatic discovery of network devices [...]
mDNSResponder.exe
You all know that I build a new computer and have installed most of the software that I have been using on my old computer on the new one as well. A quick Task Manager check revealed the file mDNSResponder.exe that was running on my computer which puzzled me at first because I could not [...]
