Month: March 2014

3 posts

Modernizing InqScribe

InqScribe is closing in on ten years old. It’s been a point of pride that InqScribe still runs on older systems — with InqScribe 2.2, as far back as OS X 10.4 and Windows 2000. Now, however, the media playback engine changes we discussed earlier are forcing us to reconsider that approach for future versions of…

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Retiring QuickTime

When Apple released QuickTime in 1991, it was revolutionary. QuickTime provided a straightforward means to open and play a wide variety of audio and video formats. Over the years, Apple enhanced QuickTime, adding support for additional formats, subtitles, Windows support, and even a handful of interactive features. When InqScribe debuted (nearly 10 years ago!), QuickTime was arguably…

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