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Quicktime, TIF and USPTO Images

By nipper

Quick update to an earlier “tech tip”* post of mine (”Tech Tip: Die QuickTime, Die“) regarding how QuickTime blocks the use of AlternaTiff (my preferred Tiff viewer for USPTO patent images). Earlier today, I decided to smack QuickTime around again (my problem was back, even though (1) I reinstalled AlternaTiff AND (2) AlternaTiff showed up as the preferred plug-in to use in FireFox AND (3) Windows’ default file type (for .tif, .tiff) was NOT set to QuickTime. Even though these were all set how they should be…QuickTime still managed to be the plug-in that loaded whenever I tried to view a USPTO patent image (.tif). In that I don’t remember the last time I used QuickTime (and I get sick and tired of killing that little Q icon in my task bar every time iTunes updates**), I decided to uninstall QuickTime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on July 02, 2008 (boomark / email).