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It seems that the QuickTime plugin in Snow Leopard (/Library/Internet Plugins/QuickTime Plugin.plugin) cannot be forced to open movies (eg. the ones at trailers.apple.com) in the old player, "QuickTime Player 7" (which is an optional component and once installed, it's at /Applications/Utilities/QuickTime Player 7). If you don't know why this is necessary, then you didn't try to open a QuickTime movie (*.mov) from a website yet. But all is not lost yet, because there's a workaround: exit QuickTime X and start QuickTime Player 7 _before_ you'd open the movie in your browser. It appears that in case there's already a running instance of a QuickTime player, the browser plugin will use that one (if there's no running player instance, then it'll always start QuickTime X).

Unfortunately Apple made sure that you cannot easily save frames from a movie using DVD Player. There's no such built-in functionality and the global shortcuts to save screenshots do not work if DVD Player is running. You have a couple of options though.

I nice and well illustrated set of instructions on how to pull off the keys from your alu keyboard.

There're quite some references to Apple in Pixar's latest movie Wall-E. The most obvious one (that I'm sure every Mac user spotted) is the Apple Dong that is the boot up sound of Mac OS X (Wall-E makes that sound when he finishes charging his batteries). Here's a blog post on how that came. However there're a lot other tiny details. Here's a probably complete guide if you're interested.

Sometime around Monday or Tuesday Apple introduced its refreshed line of MacBook and MacBook Pro products. I'm a bit suprised to see that the new models still lack any HDMI connector while all new models from other vendors have it. Hey, even our new barebone PCs at my office have HDMI ... why is Apple ignoring this tendency?

Previously I could open a bunch of movie trailers from www.apple.com/trailers and download them in parallel. After one of the recent Quicktime "updates" it seems the player has lost this functionality. Now if I open a second and a third movie, the player control appears for the movies, but it does not start playing/buffering it. Not until the first movie finished. So now Quicktime is crippled into playing only one movie at a time? I've checked all the settings, I've set enough cache so a dozen trailers would fit into it, but it won't help. I'm quite frustrated to see some good (and btw. trivial) feature taken away.

I just saw an Apple Cinema Display inside my Apple Cinema Display. It was in the 17th episode of season 3 of "House M.D." (in the flat of the photographer shown in the last couple of secs of the episode). It was funny to see a "picture in the picture" ...

You've to remove the "AP.Thumbnails" file before starting Aperture. After startup, the application will automatically rebuild the thumbnail cache ... this might take a while. For more details, here's the forum post where the solution is described.

They must be out of their minds. I'm spending only twice that much on my mobile every year! I was planning to switch to iPhone as soon as it get's out in Europe, but looking at these numbers ... no way. On the other hand I've just read an article about some cripples of the iPhone that make it less appealing after all. I've expected more from Apple.

The process is well described on Apple's site. Take a look at the picture in the article before you try pushing that small indent again and again without success. The indent is actually a button so be sure your're pushing solely on the indent, otherwise the battery compartment won't be released. The instructions on the Wikipedia page were misleading a little bit, but finally I got it right.