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' SEATTLE-BASED
PROGRES-SIVE Networks
has made a major stride on
‘the Internet audio front.

« RealAudio software is available
‘as an On-line freebie for both Mac
and PC users from the RealAudio

7 home page at (http://www.realau-
dio.com),
‘» RealAudio catapults Web sites
and home computer users to the
next level of cyber-audio reality,

_.A growing number of Web sites
incorporate RealAudio formatted
sound files.

:-To play an audio file prior to
RealAudio you had to download the
file: Even small-sound bites took up
time and memory space. ’

« Conventionally, audio is down-
loaded at a rate five times longer
than the program desired.
<. RealAudio was introduced in’

RY April..As of October, more than
450,000 RealAudio players have been
downloaded from the RealAudio Web
site. Over 130 Web sites on the
Internet ‘offer RealAudio content. -
Many of them are hot-link listed -
at the RealAudio home page.
If you want to incorporate the :
ReaiAudio personal server software

into‘your own Web site to offer real-.”’

tirns:audio on demand from your.. :
PC, the Windows 95 arid Windows.
‘beta version is available for free
download | at the RealAudio Web »
ealAudio personal ‘server will
vailable for Macintosh comput-

Michael
Becker

ers by the end of 1995,

The server software allows two
people and the server owner to lis-
ten to RealAudio files concurrently.

‘The server provides a graphical

"user interface to allow Web site :

owners to monitor who is listening

_and what they're listening to. The

window also shows how long the
server has been running and how
many sound clips have been played.
Vancouver-based popular culture
e-zine Euphony, at (http://www.axio

et.com/euphony/) incorporates
RealAudio.

At the RealAudio home page
you'll also find a listing of live
broadcasts. :

. From the user's end, the applica-
tion is dead easy to control. Once

, the enabling software is loaded into +
, your machine, pick a site and sim-

ply click on the RealAudio sound
file that catches your interest. ‘The
player kicks in. You can pause,
scroll through the file and adjust the
volume. The file sizes are no longer
limited by the span of your patience
and the availability of computer
memory.

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Virtual Beggar:

’ (http://www.gehiken.com/beggar/i

ndex.html)

The first beggar of cyberspace
accepts only e-cash.

The cyber beggar pledges that
donated e-cash will probably be
used to feed habits. For those who
wish to truly help the homeless,
Virtual Beggar provides links to
related areas.

Virtual Beggar originator
Gehiken Enterprises, based in San
Francisco, puts companies on the
Web, In the belief that the “Internet
will be a catalyst for change and not

“just another urban shopping mall,"

the company offers World Wide
Web server space free of charge to
not-for-profit organizations.
Space Calendar:
(http://newproducts. jpl.nase:gov/e_
alendar/calendar.html) :

The very nifty Space Calendar
covers space-related activities and
anniversaries for the coming year.

. The calendar is compiled and main-

tained by Ron Baalke. Find out
about launch dates, this month i in
space history and celestial events.

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