TIP #2  |  Playing video files

Quicktime works great with a lot of open-standard video formats (as well as Apple's own flavors of video), but not so well with Windows-compatible video and audio codecs, such as .wav or .avi files. Back in the day, you used to be able to use Windows Media Player more...

TIP #1  |  Force Quit

Have an application that died on you, yet won't go away? OS X is remarkably robust when dealing with errant processes or memory leaks, and offers you a chance to force-quit a stuck application if you click and hold on the application's icon in the dock. more...>