update on TIFF, Quicktime, USPTO

[Karen G. Schneider]

This is an update on the TIFF viewer discussion from late December.

First, the USPTO has improved its help pages for viewing its TIFF patent
images.  see:

http://www.uspto.gov/patft/images.htm

This is much friendlier than the earlier page.

Second, the latest Quicktime for Windows has an improved installer that asks
you about file format associations.  Digging through the Control Panel, I
found that despite disabling this feature during installation, QT was still
configured for automatic updates (which I deselected), but otherwise it
seems better able to play well with others.

Third, Alternatiff continues to work fine as a TIFF viewer.

Now I can do battle with the Yahoo viewer, which I discovered when I was
helping a patron play sound on the Web ("it's easy and fun! You can listen
to news on Yahoo...") and stumbled into a series of installation questions.
Just what the public-computing world needs--more viewers!

mumbling to myself,

Karen G. Schneider kgs at bluehighways.com
Assistant Director for Technology
Shenendehowa Public Library www.shenpublib.org