Ooooh - Blood.

Quicktime X is Alienating My Enormous Brain.

Firstly, loving the new site layout.

Secondly, the enigma that is Quicktime X (or 10 for those of you who are uneducated). In the time that I've been using Snow Leopard I've found out about the Pro's which are few in number, and the Con's which are many. One of the Pro's i'm sure you'll all agree is the new Quicktime icon.

Amazing bit of graphical design, just like the new UI. Minimalistic and generally fit for purpose. Style is all very well of course, but what about the substance. Unfortunately, that question is unanswerable in more than about a paragraph, and this is my main gripe. The export settings have been completely raped. All you have now is the option to export in iPod/iPhone, Apple TV or iTunes format. This is obviously because Apple are attempting to both attract buyers into buying their shiny new toys and to make exporting video to their devices quick, simple and easy for their new users who are still ridden with PC AIDS. Two birds with one stone. How noble of them.

But what about us, the mainstays of the Apple fanbase over the last 10+ years, who know their way around OS X, and specifically those who want gloriously complex export settings that can be used to transcode their movies into anything that their heart desires? With Quicktime X, unfortunately, this just isn't possible. To make matters worse, Apple have done their best to prevent users from running previous versions of Quicktime along with Quicktime X on the same system. The only way this can be achieved is to take advantage of one of the many bugs in an early build of Snow Leopard which involves .PKG's, and then updating to the Gold Master.

This coupled with the fact that Visualhub has now been discontinued is already adding minutes to my often futile attempts to play newly downloaded movies on the plugin lottery that is the PS3.

Hu?

Haven't written a post of my blog for nearly a year, but then I got a load of views from my blog on flickr, so I had a look. 1860 views in a day?!

Its on this post http://alexburgess.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/close-your-macbookmacbook-prowhatever-without-putting-it-to-sleep-in-kitty-cat-style/

Turns out 562 have downloaded my slightly modded app. Cool