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Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

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Apple Apps Included<br />

with <strong>Leopard</strong><br />

If <strong>Leopard</strong> came preinstalled on your new computer, then you’ll find all sorts of software,<br />

including all of iLife and some third-party applications, already there. If you purchased the<br />

<strong>Leopard</strong> DVD and did a clean install of it on your computer, you won’t find quite as much software,<br />

but you will find a number of applications that are important and useful. This chapter is<br />

going to go over some of these applications that are particularly useful, including the following:<br />

• QuickTime Player<br />

• iTunes<br />

• Preview<br />

• Photo Booth<br />

QuickTime Player<br />

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QuickTime itself falls into two general areas: there’s all the QuickTime technologies that exist<br />

behind the scenes in the system that make the music play and the videos go, and then there’s<br />

QuickTime Player (Figure 14-1), which provides an application for viewing QuickTime media.<br />

By default, QuickTime Player is simply a viewer for various media types, including, of<br />

course, QuickTime movies, but also a wide range of other video, audio, and image formats. Generally,<br />

when you double-click a media file that QuickTime Player is set to play back, it will open<br />

automatically and start playing the file.<br />

NOTE QuickTime Player is only one way to play back QuickTime media. QuickTime can also<br />

be embedded in web browsers and integrated into other applications (for example, iTunes is<br />

essentially a special-purpose media player based upon QuickTime).<br />

There are a number of ways to extend QuickTime Player’s capabilities. First, you can<br />

upgrade QuickTime to QuickTime Pro, which will unlock a number of features in QuickTime<br />

Player, including the ability to export media into other formats, and some basic media editing<br />

capabilities. Beyond that, QuickTime provides the means to add special plug-in files (called<br />

codecs) that will allow QuickTime to play back other media formats.<br />

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