QuickTimeX is an awesome new version of QuickTime. It does what it’s supposed to – without all the tiggely bits.

However, it (or Perian) currently has an issue opening MKV files.

I’ve just found a fix via foolrulez – and have confirmed it works.

Enjoy watching your 720p’s!!

I despise lazy people.

Royal Mail have failed as a company, and their workers have been pushed to the edge of reason and strike against the company. However, this hurts the consumer greater than the hurting the Royal Mail head honcho.

And in addition to the strike which has been going on for the past two weeks, Royal Mail “cuts prices” on – no longer employing a team to answer phones, but to utilise a voice recognition system (which is fruitfully repugnant) and has no option to speak to an ACTUAL HUMAN BEING. I spent 6 minutes speaking to the female version of HAL, having to repeat everything at least twice. And why the hell do we require voice recognise in these days, especially with the quality (or lack of) of the voice stream on a mobile phone (probably similar to mono 8bit, 11025hz) and then there are the dropouts. I understand that some people don’t have the ability to press buttons, such as dudes who’ve lobbed off their arms.. but why isn’t there the option at the start to say “Say, ‘voice’ to hear options using your voice or press 1 to continue”.

Back to my inital point. I’ve bought something online from the UK and have been waiting for it since the 7th of September. It has been in the Royal Mail deposit centre since the 9th. Now it is the 17th of September and the status on the track and trace website says it’s still in the depo centre. Seriously you guys, you suck.

Apple have just released iTunes 9 for download and they have finally fixed the annoying and inconsistent green button. The green button now functions like every other app, expanding the window to its maximum (instead of toggling the mini player).

Some new features too, like home sharing – which allows you to copy songs to another computer. Don’t really see the benefit of this, unless it also allows you to sync your ipod/iphone via a different computer. iTunes already allows you to stream music over the network so this idea is a bit grey atm. They allow up to 5 computers.

iTMS has had an upgrade which is more pleasing to the eye and easier to navigate. Movies have genius results now, which is great. Movies still seem a tad expensive in my minds eye. Most movies are £7 when you can buy the DVDs off of Amazon/HMV for about £3 (inc postage). Hiring movies is probably the better win here, but obviously doesn’t let you keep them.

Speed increases are abundant in the new upgrade, and a slight user interface refresh has been added.

Updated: this has now been changed back by Apple.