When you connect with QuickTime X in Snow Leopard to a server that requires authentication, you will get an "Unauthorized" message and the media will not play. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

As a newish Mac user, you may wonder what allows your computer to display pictures and play music and movies. Wonder no longer. This bit of media magic is performed by something called QuickTime.

While Apple's QuickTime focus has shifted to the new QuickTime X technologies, Apple still provides QuickTime 7 as an optional install so people can use features such as authenticated streaming video, ...