Apple Announces iSync 1.1 and QuickTime 6.3 76
chrisbw writes "According to this press release, Apple has announced iSync 1.1 and Quicktime 6.3. iSync adds support for more phones (including USB), as well as syncing Safari bookmarks!" Software Update has QuickTime 6.3 now, and iSync 1.1 is available via the web site.
Software Update (Score:1, Informative)
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WHO CARES??? (Score:2)
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Re:Well this is good (Score:5, Informative)
It's an important part of Palm use with a Mac, but in truth using iSync with a Palm is a little messy. That's because Palms don't support SyncML. So you still have to use their piece-of-shit "hotsync" software, although iSync handles all the ins-and-outs of getting your data in and out of your applications. Hotsync still has to do the heavy lifting with your Palm.
With Bluetooth phones, on the other hand, iSync is all you need. Just pair the phone to the computer and click "Sync Now." Poof. All your contacts and calendar items are in your phone. It's pretty nice.
and...yadayadayad makes 3 today (Score:4, Informative)
And..iMovie makes 4 today (Score:3, Informative)
What?s New in iMove 3.0.3
iMovie 3.0.3 provides improved performance and stability, especially on G3 processor Macs, for rendering, audio, and the Ken Burns Effect. Refinements to the Ken Burns Effect allow greater control over pan and zoom of digital images, and make it easier to crop digital stills. QuickTime 6.3 is required for improvements to audio sync and audio integrity.
Re:and...yadayadayad makes 3 today (Score:1)
Re:and...yadayadayad makes 3 today (Score:1)
What a letdown (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:What a letdown (Score:2, Informative)
Re:What a letdown (Score:2, Informative)
If Palm supported SyncML, we'd be in business. But there's not much that Palm does that makes sense. My Tungsten T has bluetooth built in, for instance, but it ca
Re:What a letdown (Score:3, Informative)
Er?
I agree that iSync is really just a fat conduit that hooks up various bits to the Palm HotSync process, but I'm syncing My Tungsten T just fine over Bluetooth to my G4. The base station stays at work (on Win2000) and syncs up with Outlook (gotta use it -- corporate calendar/mail) for Calendar and ToDo lists only. Other stuff syncs to the Palm Desktop.
At home I sync up iCal and Address Book, everything else t
Re:What a letdown (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What a letdown (Score:1)
Yow. The Reg has some cautionary [theregister.co.uk] articles [theregister.co.uk] about bugs in iSync, and a pssing mention of bugs in iPod.
Don't get me wrong, I love my TiBook and OS X, but I wish Apple would go back to being the reliable company it used to be.
Safari Bookmarks (Score:4, Interesting)
By the way, is there any easy way to do this with Mozilla? Especially, with mozilla on different OSs?
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does it fix the muxed audio bug? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:does it fix the muxed audio bug? (Score:2)
Re:does it fix the muxed audio bug? (Score:2)
Another thing not mentioned.... (Score:5, Interesting)
[The new Quicktime is] the industry's first mainstream solution to support the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard and to deliver a foundation for the creation, delivery and playback of rich multimedia content over wireless networks.
More coming from Apple and that DoCoMo partnership I guess? I would love to have QT capabilities on my cel.....
And to finish my own post..... (Score:5, Informative)
"QuickTime 6.3 delivers extensive support for the 3GPP standard, including Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) and Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) audio, MPEG-4 and H.263 video, 3G Text (TX3G) and native
Of course AAC support and MPEG-4, but what the hell is 3G text?
Re:And to finish my own post..... (Score:4, Funny)
[3G uses a wider frequency bandwidth for each channel than regular IS-95 CDMA. Approximately 3 times the bandwidth, if I remember correctly. Sorry. RF engineers have an annoying sense of humor!]
3G text (TX3G) is just time-synchronized text (Score:2)
- Peter
Re:Another thing not mentioned.... (Score:2)
Maybe Apple is trying to become some kind of content provider for mobile phone companies?
Hmm maybe 6.3 will actually *INSTALL* in windows? (Score:2)
Plenty of other people out there seem to have the same problem, but i havent found a fix for it. Very bizzare.
~GoRK
Re:Hmm maybe 6.3 will actually *INSTALL* in window (Score:2)
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Yup all the time (Score:1)
New iSync only for new iPods? (Score:5, Interesting)
If true, perhaps this means a new iPod firmware ought to be coming out very soon? I know Apple promised an update for USB 2.0 under Windows in June. But my primary concern is that we get an update that fixes the bugs in the 2.0 firmware (most notably the clicking [apple.com] between tracks).
But then I'm straying a bit off topic here... Hopefully the AAC encoder in QuickTime 6.3 works as well as or better than QT 6.2 for encoding from iTunes. I did a quick comparison before leaving this morning, and while there are byte differences between a 6.2-encoded AAC and a 6.3-encoded file, they are both the same size and I couldn't tell any audible difference (improvement or otherwise) at 160 kbps. The blurb on the website about 6.3 has plenty of marketing-speak about AAC but no real technical details telling whether anything of substance changed.
Just some random thoughts, back to work!
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Re:New iSync only for new iPods? (Score:1)
Sony pda syncs now (Score:2, Interesting)
Still playing with it though.
Re:Sony pda syncs now (Score:4, Informative)
You've checked out Missing Sync [markspace.com], right?
Re:Sony pda syncs now (Score:1)
Since I got my Clie I also got a Lexar media reader that reads memory sticks (and CF an SD and MM...) So now I just pop the Memory S
Re:Sony pda syncs now (Score:2)
I'll probably get a media reader instead, however.
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P800...I'm not ready to blame Apple. Yet. (Score:4, Informative)
My Bluetooth verison is CXC12529 R5A
It's been updated TWICE in the past 2 months (once at CeBIT and once recently in the mass update). SE has really messed-up the Bluetooth implementation so that the Auto mode doesn't work with headsets (and possibly the Mac, when the phone rings for example). It only supports the most basic OBEX Push for Bluetooth.
We might soon either have a workaround from Apple, or a new revision for compliance from SonyEricsson.
Re:P800 NO iCal sync? (Score:2)
I'm VERY surprised that the P280 isn't listed too....but suspect that it's just a case that Apple haven't tested it because it's getting a little long-in-the-tooth.
Once I find a USB cable, I'll test it
-psy
A family sharing Mac-PDA-Phone syncronization (Score:2)
Please help, I am afraid of reading marketing materials
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¡Different Accounts! (Score:1)
Each user should have a different user-account in Users:
Thank God (Score:2)
On a slightly OT note, where are the BT-compatible car stereos that were being developed so long ago? BT hands-free headsets are in their 2nd or 3rd generation. It seems that at least one BT-compatible stereo would be on the market by now.
Re:Thank God (Score:1)
Re:Thank God (Score:1)
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Hope there are bug fixes. (Score:2)
Bet the phone's time zone was whatever it was in Finland
Sure hope this is fixed.
TimeZones! (Score:1)
It is GMT, the time of the world. Personally I set all of my clocks to 24 hour mode in GMT anyway. I would like to measure time as a 64-bit binary complex integer (a + b[root]-1) representing the number of seconds since the Gregorian date 1970-01-01T00:00:00 with the clock translating the complex integer into units more familiar to humans.
Re:My 1ghz TiBook no longer boots... (Score:2)
-psy
SprintPCS needs the phones (Score:1)
So my basic rambling gets down to the fact Apple rocks and some of these phone companies have no idea how much business they are getting simply because of iSync. And Sprint needs to get off their ass 'cause I'm gonn
Re:SprintPCS needs the phones (Score:1)
kinda weird that ... (Score:1)
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Motorola Support.... nummers (Score:1)