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Apple Announces iSync 1.1 and QuickTime 6.3
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.
Do note, that as of 3 June 2003, 0935 AM EST, the updates are not as of yet available via OS X's 'Software Update' function/package/program/thinger. Yup.
Informatus Technologicus
I'm glad they are still innovating within quicktime and adding this support. I was a bit confused when I visited apple.com this morning and saw "iSync" and a picture of a computer with cell phones around it. I though maybe syncing would have more to do with palm devices. need to do more reading on this :P
Cheers :)
Why is it that every time there is a swupdate people have to chime in about when it is/isn't available in swupdate?
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
Bluetooth 1.2.1 provides enhanced stability and support for the following Symbian OS based mobile phones: Nokia 3650, Nokia 7650, and Sony Ericsson P800. Bluetooth 1.2.1 is recommended for use with iSync 1.1.
I was hoping that this update would fix some annoying features of iSync. In order to get iSync to work with your Palm, you need to install Palm Desktop before iSync then do the hokey pokey and ... well I forget how it goes. I first thought it would replace Palm Desktop but it does some sort of conduit interfacting with PD. I wanted to see this revision drop the complexities of getting iSync to work with my Palm but it looks like this has not happened. ...bummer.
Does anyone know whether this will be bi-directional? i.e. Can I use bookmarks on one machine... and on another and add to each of them in between syncs? That would be awesome!
By the way, is there any easy way to do this with Mozilla? Especially, with mozilla on different OSs?
does the new quicktimee fix the bug with muxed audio tracks in the movies that sony cybershot cameras make, whereby the movies play fine but if you try to save them as any other format they lose their audio and you have to mess about with a bunch of 3rd party hacks to get the audio out okay?
I used to have a better sig than this, but I got tired of it
(from the AP press release)
[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.....
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I just found some specifics....
.3gp file format support."
"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?
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Has anyone encountered the problem when quicktime will not even install in windows without completely crashing the machine? I have tried to install quicktime 6.1 numerous times on this one windows xp machine to no avail. Nothing will work - even directly after a completely new clean install of windows.
Plenty of other people out there seem to have the same problem, but i havent found a fix for it. Very bizzare.
~GoRK
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 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!
Say hello to zMac.
My WOOHOOO about my clie finally syncing with my mac was cut short when I realized it was only syncing the memo nothing else. No calender no address book. odd.
Still playing with it though.
I just installed it OK on Windows NT. (When I get home, I'll install it on my 'real' computer -- my iMac G4.)
Mike van Lammeren
It will challenge your head, your brain, and your mind.
Nope. We also don't believe you when you say that "plenty" of others are having this "problem." We think you're a fuckin troll. Why else would you post something about Windows on a Mac board?
What version of Bluetooth in the P800 are you users on? (To find out, do this: Go to Applications (4 dots), menu: View, then System Information. When the System Infomation panel is open, click the arrow (go to the second page).
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.
http://www.apple.com/isync/devices.html
P800 still doesn't work with iCal, but Sony Ericsson Bluetooth phones do work with it?
Okay, call me dumb, but is it possible for a couple to both have their own PDAs and/or synchable cell phones and share a single computer and further sync to that computer using iSync and not end up mixing up one another's calendars and contact lists?
Please help, I am afraid of reading marketing materials
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
I bought a T68i to shamelessly pander to my (admittedly large) geeky side. However, the T68 (and T39, same internals) is an abyssmal phone. Good to see that Apple is branching out a bit.
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.
Have you seen my stapler?
We had a bug before in California that the Sony Ericsson bluetooth phone would save all the address information from iCal incorrectly. All address info was off by 7 hours.
Bet the phone's time zone was whatever it was in Finland
Sure hope this is fixed.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
Nearly every time I'm in the computer lab I end up installing Quicktime 6.1 on their Windows XP machines. It's installed with no problems on every one I've tried (probably about 16 or 20).
iMovie 3.03 via the website...(this one, if an improvement, is badly needed).
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.
Just installed the updates to a vanilla 1GHZ TiBook and can no longer boot it. Booting with twirly V indicates that it cannot mount the filesystem anymore.
Anyone seen this ?
That was also updated this afternoon.
I would bet that iDVD will be updated soon too since QT 6.3 and iMovie 3.0.3 are out.
Each user should have a different user-account in Users:
Impeach Bush
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.
Impeach Bush
When iSync first came out I almost switched cell providers just so I could be a geek and use my phone. But I stayed with Sprint. Then I saw the SonyEricsson that was compatible with CDMA systems so I still stayed. And now this announcement, and yet I STILL don't see Sprint phone on their site.
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 gonna switch soon if they don't.
So there.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
...Apple supports the NTT 3G FOMA docomo thing, and yet no japanese cell phone can be sync'ed with iSync. Not even the address book, although nearly all japanese cellphones (wether Docomo or J-Phone or Au) support the vcal and vcard format...
Music is the language of the heart, the sound of the soul. -Joe Satriani
- Peter
INsigNIFICANT
Um, the board deals with Apple (including the software for Windows that they release), not specifically Macintosh... regardless of how many people may or may not experience the installation problem cited.
having isync with usb support for a large list of motorola phones is HUGE. I have been waiting a year for this day where i can use my crappy motorola t720 with isync. i wanted to switch to a provider with sony ericsson phone support so bad. i got owned by the verizon salesperson and recieved this inferior phone about a year ago. one of my bigger regrets of the past year. they woo you with the big color lcd and downloadable games and ringtones. ALL cost more money than is worth. its like downloading from the itunes music store except it cost 6 times as much and take 20 times longer. anyway. props to apple on yet another wise move.
If I knew what I was talking about, there would prolly be more text.
'real', ha ha!
You're living in the past, NT and Mac are dead.