QuickTime - Apple's powerful tool for multimedia streaming and playback. The Pro version includes an extensive authoring toolbox. QuickTime is equally adept on both Mac and Windows platforms. Sheets - Aqua's new methodology for handling modal and modeless dialogs. Sheets are used in conjunction with the window to which they are attached.
Sheets are translucent in appearance and appear to slide out from underneath the window title.
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