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 [...]

Tags: apple itunes, bonjour, iPodService, itunes, itunes 9, itunes custom install, ituneshelper, quicktime
Categories: Windows, software

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.
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Categories: Windows, software

A new version of the – in my opinion – best media player SMPlayer has been released and can be downloaded from the website of the developers at Sourceforge. SMPlayer is a Mplayer frontend that plays most video codecs out of the box which means that you do not have to install codecs to play the majority of video – and audio – formats. It does play for instance Apple Quicktime .mov videos without the need to install Quicktime at all.

Tags: dvd, media-player, mplayer, multimedia, quicktime, smplayer, video-player
Categories: Music and Video, Tools

I do not like Quicktime that much. I hate to use additional clients next to VLC to be able to view certain movies on websites. I also do not like the fact that you can’t save movies easily if you do not use Quicktime Pro. I discovered a method that makes it possible to save movies from the Apple Trailer website to your local drive and watch them in your favorite movie player afterwards. I use VLC for this purpose but Quicktime Alternative for instance should be fine as well.

Tags: apple, cinema, download, film, movie, quicktime, save, trailers
Categories: Knowledge, The Web

Apple Quicktime and Realmedias Realplayer are typical heavyweight programs that install themselves in ways that could influence the speed of your system. Both add parts of their suit to be run at system startup and load slowly nevertheless. It is also great if you distrust big companies and are looking for freeware alternatives to those big media suits.

Tags: quicktime, quicktime alternative, real alternative, real player, software, Windows
Categories: Tools