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How to install QuickTime Player 7 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard without the DVD

Mauro Dalu

If you found this post, you need some feature that used to be available in QuickTime Player 7 PRO and you can’t find it anymore on your hard disk after a clean install of Snow Leopard. That’s because Apple decided QuicktTime Player X didn’t need all the extra features… Too bad that means you can’t convert your Keynote movies to MP4 in order to have them playback on your iPad.

According to Apple, QuickTime 7 is an optional install on your Snow Leopard DVD. Ok, where did I put that DVD?

The good news is you can download a file that will require QuickTime 7 to play (QTVR, MIDI, QTZ) in order to trigger OSX to download and install QuickTime 7. Here’s how…

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iPhone: How to import photos, screenshots, movies and video without iPhoto

Mauro Dalu

If you need to quickly import movies, photos or screenshots to your Mac and want to avoid iPhoto, here’s a quick tip for you.

Introducing “Image Capture”, a very simple utility bundled with Mac OS X that will allow you to move media files from any device to your hard disk or to another supported app.

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Where is the text-to-speech “speak” command in Mac OS X Snow Leopard?

Mauro Dalu

Add-to-itunes-as-spoken-textI was used to have a “speak” command somewhere in the services menu to be accessible whenever you had a text selected. In Snow Leopard, that has disappeared but a new Automator command is provided instead.

The command will convert any text to an iTunes track containing the speech synthesis reading the text. A new “Text-to-Speech” album is added to iTunes containing the tracks.

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