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Motion Picture Experts Group releases H.265 draft standard, offers Web-based video at twice the quality, half the data size

If you think Web-based video is impressive now, wait a bit. Per AppleInsider, the Motion Pictures Expert Group has issued a new video standards draft that promises to deliver twice the video quality at the same size, or alternatively, identical video quality at half the data rate as today’s MPEG-4 H.264 standard. The new H.265 […]

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Perian development to end, final version to fix remaining bugs

Perian, the iconic, free, incredibly useful open source video utility project that’s allowed QuickTime to handle nearly every video format possible, will soon be coming to an end. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog, the project’s developers have stated that Perian is reaching the end of the road. Today, the Perian dev team announced that the […]

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Apple releases fourth Mac OS X 10.7.4 seed to developer community

The betas, they just keep rolling on… Per AppleInsider, Apple this week seeded its developer community with the fourth build of OS X 10.7.4, the upcoming maintenance update for its Lion operating system. Sources familiar with the latest build said it is labeled as “11E52.” The download is said to be more than 700 megabytes […]

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Apple releases third Mac OS X 10.7.4 seed to developer community

It’ll be cool to see what comes next. Per AppleInsider, Apple on Friday seeded the new OS X 10.7.4 build 11E46, asking developers to focus on the App Store, graphics, Mail, QuickTime, Screen Sharing and Time Machine. The third build has no known issues and Apple is asking devs to continue their focus on the […]

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Apple to release Q2 results on Tuesday, April 24th

It’s not the most exciting announcement in the world, but if you have Apple stock, you might want to know about it. Per Mac|Life, Apple has updated their website to include details of the company’s second quarter 2012 financial results for the January through March period. As usual, the conference call will be streamed live […]