Filed under: Video, Windows, Apple, Freeware
Keeping up with Apple: QuickTime Alternative 2.7 released
by Brad Linder Sep 10th 2008 at 12:00PM
QuickTime Alternative is a Windows program for users who might occasionally want to watch a QuickTime file but don't want to install Apple's media player. The program is bundled with Media Player Classic, an open source Windows media playback utility that looks a lot like Windows Media Player 6. You can use Media Player Classic to watch MOV files you've downloaded to your hard drive. Or you can install the browser plugin to watch files embedded on web pages. The latest version of QuickTime Alternative incldues support for Google Chrome as well as Firefox, Netscape, and Opera.
QuickTime Alternative makes use of the codecs taken from Apple software but is not an official Apple product.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
