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A Brief Guide to Audio Conferencing Services
Audio conferencing provides a way for businesses and other groups to interact, without having to travel to each other’s offices. The savings in time and travel expenses quickly make up for the cost of audio conferencing services and equipment. Audio...
Free audio books - what is the best method?
When I was young I read all the books written by Douglas Adams.
I liked it so much that I have managed to persuade my parents to
buy the audio books of the titles I have read. I remember
getting larges boxes with up to twenty audio cassettes for...
Understanding & Reading Your Audiogram
After you have a hearing test, your hearing professional should show you a graph of how your hearing tested. This graph is called an Audiogram. While many individual hearing offices make up a form of their own to use in marking your test...
Valuable Audio Resources for Teachers
Are you a first year teacher? Have you taught in the past and are returning to the classroom? Do you crave knowledge about specific tips and tricks that will help your school year run smoothly? You might be brand new to the education scene or have a...
Your Guide To Online Audio Book Rental
Online audio book rental is so easy that we simply can not understand why some people are still buying audio books. Online audio book rental service offer the best deals on the audio books world today – Unlimited rental, No due dates, an enormous...
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Internet: Communication Through Technology Including Video and Audio
Who hasn't heard about the internet? No one! Unless, of course,
you have been living in a cave for the past decade! The internet
is the crowning achievement of the Information Age (which is
what we call this age we live in). It has completely
revolutionized how we communicate and how we live.
But what exactly is this thing we call the internet? In a
nutshell, the internet is the interconnection of computers
around the world. It allows users of these computers to
communicate in a variety of ways: through email, streaming
conferencing, website information, file sharing, and others.
For you to connect to the internet, you will need a computer and
a connection to an ISP (Internet Service Provider). Your ISP
will provide you with a connection and the means to connect to
the internet.
The internet started out as a project of ARPANET (Advanced
Research Projects Agency of the US Department of Defense), which
was commissioned by the Pentagon to look into the uses of
networking for military purposes in 1960. From there, the
internet was steadily developed to benefit the whole populace.
In the beginning, the internet could only chug along at a low
data transfer rate. Today, ISPs offer speeds from 56 kilobytes
per second to 10 megabytes per second or more! This allows
people to transfer more data which facilitates better
communication.
The internet impacts so much of our daily lives that it has
become indispensable to so many people and businesses.
Uses of the Internet
1. E-mail - Gone are the days when people had to wait weeks or
even months to receive postal mail! With the internet, an email
can be sent and reach its destination instantaneously! E-mails
have made the world a smaller place, allowing people separated
by great distances to correspond.
2. Instant Messaging, Chat Rooms - Services such as AIM, Yahoo
Messenger, MSN Messenger, and
Skype allow people to send
messages instantaneously, much like a phone conversation, but
using written messages. There are also "virtual rooms" on the
internet facilitated by services developed for this reason.
These "rooms" allow many users to chat using written messages.
3. Webpages - Webpages are like virtual homes on the internet.
They allow people to post documents on the internet that are
easy to browse through and navigate. As time haspassed by,
webpages have gained more functionality. Today you can download
files, submit files and comments, and do all your shopping
online.
Webpages serve many functions: some promote businesses, some are
purely informational, and some become money making vehicles. The
internet spawned what we now call e-commerce. This involves
purchasing over the internet. You can even use online payment
methods such as PayPal, Paydot and other methods.
4. Streaming Services and File Sharing - The internet also
allows file sharing. This allows you to share files with other
users. These files may be large or small. Streaming services
allow you to receive data such as radio feeds, or even video
feeds over the internet.
A Brave New World
In the past, the internet was limited to large institutions. Now
residential internet has become more affordable. Today's
technology even allows mobile internet! You could surf the
internet from a mobile device such as a cell phone, or you could
surf from your laptop in areas that offer Wi-Fi (Wireless
Fidelity). The internet makes instant communication with the
rest of the world possible. In the next few years we will see
much more.
About the author:
David Arnold Livingston is an entrepreneur with many years
of successful business experience. For tips on finding the
ideal internet resources, he recommends: Fore Internet
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| Yahoo! Search - Audio Search |
| Submit your audio content - including podcasts - to Audio Search with Media RSS ... Find audio files from across the Web including music, podcasts, ... |
| audio.search.yahoo.com |
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| AltaVista - Audio Search |
| Search for MP3s, WAVs and streaming audio files on the web and on FTP sites. |
| www.altavista.com |
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| Rhapsody & RealPlayer — the best audio and video players — Real.com |
| The standard for audio and video streaming online. |
| www.real.com |
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| SuperPass — premium audio and video programming — Real.com |
| RealNetworks cross-platform multimedia player. Supports RTSP/RTP with H.261, u-Law, a-law, MP3, DVI. [Client] |
| www.real.com |
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| The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio |
| List of major online audio resources; part of the WWW Virtual Library, maintained by Prof. Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University, UK. |
| archive.museophile.org |
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| More audio reports | Audio archive | Guardian Unlimited |
| Special report: Europe's far right. More audio reports ... Audio, 'It will achieve a great deal of injustice' February 17, video: The Conservative candidate ... |
| www.guardian.co.uk |
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| Internet Archive: Audio Archive |
| Non-English language collections contributed to the Open Source Audio collection ... You are invited to view or upload audios to the Open Source collection! ... |
| www.archive.org |
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| M-AUDIO |
| Manufacturers of MIDI and audio devices for the PC or Mac. Product catalog, company information, news and support center. |
| www.m-audio.com |
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| Audio - Salon |
| Free spoken word recordings from hundreds of authors. Includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and live author events. |
| www.salon.com |
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| Audio Engineering Society |
| The leading professional association worldwide for professionals involved in the audio industry. Extensive and well maintained site, including online member ... |
| www.aes.org |
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| Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| HyperPhysics: Sound and Hearing · Audio for the 21st Century · Conversion of sound units and levels · Sounds amazing a learning resource for sound and waves ... |
| en.wikipedia.org |
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| Audio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| Windows Media Audio, Microsoft's proprietary digital audio format. ... "I hear" in Latin. Audio, magazine covering high fidelity music reproduction. ... |
| en.wikipedia.org |
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| AudioREVIEW.com - Home Audio and Home Theater resource |
| Consumer reviews on home audio and home theater equipment. |
| www.audioreview.com |
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| CBC.ca - Listen to CBC Radio |
| Audio Plug-ins & Assistance. Windows Media Player, Windows Media Player 9. Frequently Asked Questions, Frequently Asked Questions. Ogg Vorbis Format ... |
| www.cbc.ca |
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| CBC.ca - Listen to CBC Radio |
| From 7:00 p.m. AT Friday, December 1st to 7:00 p.m. AT Saturday, December 2nd, the Fredericton audio stream will be unavailable due to a power shutdown in ... |
| www.cbc.ca |
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| Audio - Creative Commons |
| Features a pool of Creative Commons licensed audio. You may submit your MP3s · OYEZ Years of Supreme Court proceedings available as licensed MP3, ... |
| creativecommons.org |
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| Audio Adrenaline |
| Audio Adrenaline is an award winning Christian Rock Band that writes, records, sings and performs songs like Big House with Gospel driven messages to ... |
| www.audioa.com |
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| Audio Bible Online |
| Audio Bible, The King James Version narrated by Alexander Scourby is on-line. |
| www.audio-bible.com |
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| Audio - ebaumsworld.com |
| hilarious audio sound files file mp3 mp3s audios. ... Shocking audio of a man getting shot. Tags: ghetto · Blondestar Blondestar ... |
| www.ebaumsworld.com |
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| AudioFind.com - multimedia internet search |
| Searchable MP3 directory with thousands of files. Browse alphabetically by filename, master artist, or date. |
| www.audiofind.com |
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