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. Originally developed in 1991 as a multimedia technology that accompanied the System 6 operating system, QuickTime has been built in to every version of the Mac's operating system since.Related StoriesApple trickles out more iWork for iCloud invitesHands-on: Android device manager confirms that, yes, Google really is watching
