Category: 663: Mac Treat #118: QuickTime Pro for Advanced Media Export, Pages TOC Follow Up, Hipstamatic App Review

Ed and I will be back with you next week. Thanks for reading this issue of Kibbles & Bytes! Kali & Ed

For this week, we’re offering an Apple refurbished 17-inch MacBook Pro with a 2.66GHz processor, 4GB of RAM (upgradable to 8GB of RAM), and a 320GB hard drive. This MacBook Pro has glossy widescreen display. Since the machine is Apple-refurbished, it includes a full one-year Apple warranty and is eligible for AppleCare. And since it’s…

Hipstamatic is my new favorite app for iPhone. Hipstamatic is a camera app that seeks to recreate the experience of using an old analog camera as accurately as possible. Any by “old analog camera,” I primarily mean a “cheap analog camera,” the kind with mass-produced plastic lenses. The app is named for the inexpensive plastic…

Thanks to everyone who wrote in regarding my article, “The Skinny on Pages’ TOC” in “last week’s Kibbles & Bytes.”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/?c=kb662 I’ll post some of them here, as well as any response or elaboration I might have. H. J. Jackson writes, bq. __”Pages is a wonderful program, and iWork is a real bargain. The very best…

Snow Leopard includes a brand-new version of QuickTime Player, called QuickTime X. It’s optimized with a new media architecture ideal for playing back high-definition video. It offers a clean, uncluttered interface with controls that fade out when they’re not needed. It also offers some new features not previously available in earlier versions of QuickTime player.…

As Don suns himself in Belize, Ed and I are here in Vermont, watching winter slowly fade away into -mud- spring. I, for one, could have used one last good snow, but I guess I shouldn’t count it out just yet (at least that’s what Art would say!). I’ve been here for almost three years…