December 2010
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Software Substitutes pt IV
Apple Macs have come with Quicktime player for a very long time. Quicktime was in fact invented by Apple specifically to make videos easy to play. But nowadays, your Video Cameras, phones, will take videos in a variety of formats. Add to this the huge number of videos you can download and watch on your computer. Can Quicktime handle all these files? Not really.
If you haven’t already done...
Software Substitutes III
Your web browser is like your favorite brand of tea (you can tell I’m an Englishman!) or your favorite brand of anything really. Although you can use a different browser, it tends to leave a bad taste in your mouth!
I’m a Firefox person through and through. But Macs come with Safari, so why not just use Safari as my one and only browser? Well, for me, the choice is one of speed, ease of use,...