Posts Tagged ‘37’

Automate an installation process - with Automator

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Previously, we looked at how to install custom QuickLook plugins, so we can preview more kinds of file types using this awesome feature of Mac OS X Leopard.

Today we will learn how to automate this process of copying a file into a certain location. So we only need to click the file, select the action and it’s installed.

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Flip4Mac: Play Windows media on your Mac

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

In the last post we covered Perian, a great, free extension to the Apple QuickTime Player to play all kinds of video and audio files.
However, as you might have seen, Perian does not support Windows Media. Don’t be afraid, we are here to help you.

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Perian: Play all kinds of video files

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Mac OS X uses QuickTime as the standard for everything in connection with video (file extension: .mov). However, there are situations, when you receive video files that have a different file format and thus can not be played with the standard setup of Mac OS X.

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