PLUG-INS AND OTHER EXTENDED WEB APPLICATIONS 

 

You will need to start with some of these if you are enhancing your website with audio, video, MIDI, or Flash:

 

There is an excellent overview and description of many, many plug-ins on the Netscape Plug-Ins page. The page is very well organized and breaks things down into their appropriate area: audio, animation, video, pict, etc. The page address is: http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_2.0/plugins/index.html

Catch-UP is a free, web-based service that automatically searches for the newest versions of many popular shareware and freeware applications. It has been designed to benefit PC users by eliminating lengthy "one-by-one" searches of archives, company homepages and the like. Configure the Catch-UP helper application, and with a simple click of a button, Catch-UP will generate a customized list of possible updates including corresponding download sites. Check out their site at: http://www.manageable.com; email is: Info@Manageable.com.

http://www.versions.com "Versions! is a web-based service to help people keep up-to-date on software upgrades via e-mail notification. Users establish an account at Versions!, identify the software they want to track, and rely upon the system to let them know about upgrades. Over 60,000 products and all major operating systems are covered by Versions! Users can search the web site by developer, OS or application category, and sign-up via an online form to receive e-mail notification of new developments."

RealAudio gives you realtime audio over the net. There is no download time, and you can read the file forward or backward, start anywhere in the file, and ALL IN REALTIME. Check it out: http://www.realaudio.com

Shockwave, from Macromedia, is fast becoming a net standard. This plug-in gives you realtime animation and audio over the web. With the new streamline version (for PPC only), you can add longer audio files, all played in realtime. Here's the site: http://www.macromedia.com/Tools/Shockwave/.

Speech uses the Macintosh Speech Manager to let your computer talk. Check it out: http://www.albany.net/~wtudor.

The Talker plug-in allows you to use your Macintosh Speech Manager and Text-to-English extensions in order to make you Mac talk or even sing. Apparently there is a look-alike program for the PC. The site has a ton of links to people currently making use of the plug-in. http://www.mvpsolutions.com/PlugInSite/Talker.html 

 
 

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updated February 2004.
Kristine H. Burns,
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