iTunes 7.6.2, Time Machine, Airport, QT, FrontRow Updates available

[FJ218700]

How about kitchen sinks? 😛

come on, at least let's get them synced with .Mac accounts, wired or wireless, it's ridiculous that this functionality is not currently available.

I'm sure we'll be paying at least $20 for this feature with v 2.0.

mini-rant over

 

[jmadlena]

It has been rewritten. It's on the iPhone.

Yeah... I don't think that is really that related to the Mac OS X version of iTunes. It's not like iPhone runs full Mac OS X.

And no, iTunes 7 is still carbon based.

 

[DavidCar]

You can already do that..😕

You can only get "up to DVD-quality" on a PC. HD quality is only allowed on an Apple TV.

I would also like to see an update allowing HD quality on my iMac.

 

[Gentile]

Hopefully they regroup the TV shows by TV show rather than by seasons of TV shows (or at least give it back as an option)

I have been waiting for this to be fixed for a while. Why they ever designed it this way, I will never know.

 

[entropik]

Still no fix for the Front Row's inability to stream to Airport Express. Thanks for nothin', guys. 😡

 

[72930]

You can only get "up to DVD-quality" on a PC. HD quality is only allowed on an Apple TV.

I would also like to see an update allowing HD quality on my iMac.

I haven't tried it, but there is an option in Secrets to allow HD on the Mac.

 

[xUKHCx]

Despite the incorrect links on apples pages it looks like the quicktime secuirty update has references to the PWN to OWN competition.

There are 6 references to

Description: An issue in QuickTime's parsing of 'obji' atoms may result in a stack buffer overflow. Viewing a maliciously crafted QuickTime VR movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved bounds checking. Credit to an anonymous researcher working with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative for reporting this issue.

The 6 issues are

Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

- separate issue

Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted PICT image file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted PICT image file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

- separate issue

Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted QuickTime VR movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Those are just the ones realating to the PWN to OWN competition the rest/further details can be found here

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1241

 

[deanops]

have they fixed the link b/w front row and iTunes?
For example, when you click the menu button on the remote to enter FR, does it sto the music? or does it continue playing like leopard days?

 

[wheelhot]

Well its possible that iTunes 8 will be in Cocoa because wants to dominate the MP3 market (it has already dominated but what I meant is to like own) so it must have a player that is able to own the other MP3 players out there, like WinAmp, Songbird (still in beta but looks promising) and etc. One of the ways is to make iTunes use less memory and run faster then the rest of the competitor, Apple got the money and resources to do that so guess we have to wait for iTunes 8. Im sure we wont see much difference in the interface, Apple will try to make it unnoticeable to normal users that they have changed the whole coding in iTunes so people wont try to find out why with the complete new inteface. 😀

The new Safari is much better then the previous version, its as fast at Firefox 3 and its bookmark searching finally works but need some more revision because it lags the whole browser down when searches. 😉

 

[robertplantcia]

Can anyone check if you can now use frontrow to control airport express in leopard?? as it was always possible in tiger?

Good to know I'm not the only one who is still waiting for a much-needed update. It looks like this latest update hasn't addressed the problem. I suggest you revert to Front Row 1.3.1, from the Tiger era.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6911533
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/frontrow131.html

Good luck

 

[tk421]

I haven't tried it, but there is an option in Secrets to allow HD on the Mac.

Where is that? All I can find is this, which allows HD trailers in Front Row.

 

[asdavis10]

Anyone remember how there were a slew of updates to other apps and services before 10.5.2 was released? This doesn't really indicate an imminent 10.5.3 release, but I just thought I would put it out there.

 

[aafuss1]

Still no fix for the Front Row's inability to stream to Airport Express. Thanks for nothin', guys. 😡

Me too-I wish Apple would restore Airport Express streaming in Front Row.

 

[LEStudios]

I would love for iTunes to get supercharged, or maybe even a complete over-haul. That application leaves the heaviest footprint on my CPU when it runs.

Hell Yeah! Damn near a 1-1.5GB of Memory is utilized in iTunes. Question when did we get the iTunes update? Mines was already 7.6.2 but I don't remember doing that. I had problems with it earlier it did a auto-update? 😕

 

[thegman1234]

You can only get "up to DVD-quality" on a PC. HD quality is only allowed on an Apple TV.

I would also like to see an update allowing HD quality on my iMac.

Do you mean a Windows PC? Because I can watch HD on my Cinema display. I watch HD podcasts, it's great.

 

[xUKHCx]

Hell Yeah! Damn near a 1-1.5GB of Memory is utilized in iTunes. Question when did we get the iTunes update? Mines was already 7.6.2 but I don't remember doing that. I had problems with it earlier it did a auto-update? 😕

Do you mean Virtual memory? As iTunes uses 43MB of ram on my machine using the latest version and 1GB of virtual memory which is a bug in Leopard and it actually uses 450MB and either way it is virtual memory so doesn't matter.

The iTunes update was released today so it probably did auto-update.

 

[72930]

Do you mean Virtual memory? As iTunes uses 43MB of ram on my machine using the latest version and 1GB of virtual memory which is a bug in Leopard and it actually uses 450MB and either way it is virtual memory so doesn't matter.

The iTunes update was released today so it probably did auto-update.

Well mine is using much more than that (sorry, I'm not so in-the-know about RAM, I've added the private column):

By the way, what is this (null) thing?

 

[liberty4all]

Yea, pretty dumb, if you ask me.

Hopefully we'll also see 1080p content soon! ;-)

You can only get "up to DVD-quality" on a PC. HD quality is only allowed on an Apple TV.

I would also like to see an update allowing HD quality on my iMac.

 

[xUKHCx]

Well mine is using much more than that:

add the private memory column 😉

And it doesn't really matter anyway.

 

[bytethese]

Yea, pretty dumb, if you ask me.

Hopefully we'll also see 1080p content soon! ;-)

Ahh, we can all dream. Alas, I think it'll be a while for that one. :/

 

[FreeState]

Do you mean a Windows PC? Because I can watch HD on my Cinema display. I watch HD podcasts, it's great.

They are talking about iTunes HD movie rentals - they can only be downloaded and played on AppleTV - something I suspect was required from the movie studios - not Apple.

 

[bluedoggiant]

😡😡😡

my imac seems very buggy and unresponsive, not a happy camper.

 

[xUKHCx]

I've added the private column):

That reduced it by quite a lot but obviously there are some differences

By the way, what is this (null) thing?

Select it and press cmd+I and it will tell you the process it belongs to and if you select the Open Files and Ports tab then it should give you some clues to what it is.

 

[xenotaku]

Me too-I wish Apple would restore Airport Express streaming in Front Row.

ME TOO. WTF APPLE.

 

[mike12806]

cool front row now kind of spazzes out when I try to exit, it like begins to fade out, then quickly comes back to the menu, then exits. AH! Im so sick of Apple "updates" that break stuff that wasn't BROKEN! 😡