Wednesday, February 5, 2003

Look at the QuickTime VR sidebar of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual by David Pogue (page 362 in the first edition). The subtitle reads "Gem in the rough." The first line goes "If they live to be 100, most Mac users will probably never encounter a QuickTime VR movie. Yet this kind of "panorama movie" technology is built into every Mac." I think David has done a good job with this book, yet I wonder how true the 'most Mac users' statement is. What does this say about the marketing/brand awareness of QuickTime VR? 7:00:00 AM

Ever resize an image in Photoshop (up or down) and not be satisfied with the results? Then check out Humansoft's X-file, a plugin with offers improved upsizing and downsizing algorithms. 6:56:00 AM

The Little QuickTime Page mentions an interesting utility called CCaption from LeapFrog Productions. Now available for OS X, it can add close captions and open captions to Quicktime movies. Not sure if it works with VR files. 6:47:08 AM

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