Podcast The Broadcast
by: James A. Warholic

In my book, technology is the mother of invention and it sure is inventing new words to go along with the products created.

One of those invented words is podcasting.
Podcasting and Podcasts are from Apple iPod and broadcasting words. The iPod is a small device that can fit in your shirt pocket and stores MP3 songs or audio files. These files can be played back any place any time. Podcasting continues to evolve from a form of free speech to businesses using podcasts for marketing strategies. There are even Net directories with broadcasts of everything from sports information, computers, science, technology, and more.

You do not need to have an iPod device in order to use this. All that is needed is a computer and an Internet connection. There are free program readers that will allow you to subscribe to any broadcast online. When a subscribed to show is broadcasted the program can be set up to notify you and download the MP3 file to your computer. To sample any of these files simply do a search for podcasts or podcasting and listen to the files before your subscribe.

Much the same way blogs have changed the face of the Internet the podcasts could do the same. Anyone can set one up. All that is required is a computer and a microphone.

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by: James A. Warholic

Once you get high speed hook-up there is no turning back!

If you have never tried cable or DSL (digital subscriber line) you have no idea what you are missing. Maybe that is good!

I have been using a digital cable high speed connection for years now and I do not know what I would do without it. Extensive time is spent online, researching projects, building and maintaining websites, uploading pictures and multimedia files to websites, downloading important documents from customers, FTP uploads and downloads, and downloading software updates.

With the number of software updates that occur weekly it would take forever on a dialup connection to download the patches.

Sometimes I am reminded of how long things took before when a website takes a long time to load or when a website goes down and the feeling of frustration that sets in when trying to access it.

Speed seems to be increasing. I just heard that a cable high speed ISP is up around 4 megabits per second. These speeds were unheard of just five or ten years ago for the average consumer.

With speed increases comes advanced online applications, games, news delivery, and entertainment apps.

People are spending more time on the Internet for all forms of information. Information delivery systems such as RSS and Atom feeds for blogs and websites are being used by the average person. High speed Internet applications are involved with cell phones and PDA technology for messaging, emails, and photos. Whole cities are being setup for wireless high-speed access for not only the police and fire departments but for the citizens themselves. WiFi Hot Spots are at various Starbucks and even McDonalds has wireless at some of their locations. Cameras are linked into the Internet system at intersections and highway overpasses to monitor red light violations and traffic flow.

Yes, it is truly amazing at the speed at which the Internet has affected are lives.

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Wow, What A Screen Saver!
by: James A. Warholic, Professional Web Services

I feel like I am in control central. Here I sit with my large screen Mac in the middle of my desk with two other monitors, one on the right and one on the left.

While working on the other PC, I was just finishing up a project when this beautiful hidden island and beach setting floated onto the Mac screen. The Apple has built in screen savers that are simply beautiful. The way they handle the graphics just captures the beauty of the pictures in such away to create the sense that a person is there.

I am sure there are other screen savers to download but what they give you is sufficient enough for me.

As I dive in more to the OS X Software I am discovering new things everyday. I have been trying out different browsers with the Mac. Apple supplies a browser called Safari. Safari is very similar to the Mozilla-Firefox browser. They have the abilities to have tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing provides a means to open multiple tabs with-in the same window. This makes it easy to go back and forth between many websites when comparing or shopping online. Just installed the newly released browser, Camino by Mozilla, for the Apple OS X system.

Another day tomorrow. I need to go back and dream a little more.

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I took the plunge today. The iMac G5.

For weeks if not months I have been visiting a couple of different Apple stores in California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, looking at all the new toys. I was in need of another computer and fell in love with the new Apples.

I started out many moons ago on the old "SE". The "SE" machine had a whopping 20 meg. hard drive and a grayscale display monitor. Then I graduated to the Power PC6100. Wow, I had color! Then many years rolled by in "computer years" that is, and customers were getting all these new Microsoft Windows machines. I thought it would probably be a good idea for me to learn about these. So I did my investigative market research and found a PC at one of the malls. All of a sudden it seemed as though the whole world was getting on the bandwagon.

As timed rolled on, family members wanted computers. I was not about to pay what I felt was a huge markup on the computers at the various outlets, so I dove into learning about the insides of PCs and built one. Then I needed a Linux system and built another PC. A short while later it was time for another family member to have one and pulling the same rabbit out of the hat again, I went down to the local Fry's and looked at all the motherboards and picked what I felt would be the best investment. In addition I picked up a hard drive, memory, CD, DVD player, and a monitor. This one had a little hitch though. The motherboard would not boot. No problem though, just a little time and patience. Took the board back and got another. This time it booted up like a champ.

Now I am coming round, full circle. I had really loved the Mac when I first had them, but because of time moving on, I really lost touch with the machine I loved.

A friend had recently purchased a PowerBook and had been a fan of Apple for as long as Apple has been around. He is an older gentleman that really took to the Mac. As I had been comparing the differences between the PowerBook vs the PC, I was realizing what a wonderful difference existed between the two. I discovered there was a whole other world that I was missing.

So, I took the leap. When I went into the Apple store, and I had intended to purchase the Mini; which is really a neat little machine, but I needed more horsepower, and most importantly I needed a larger display with more real estate desktop space. I could have purchased the Mac mini with a large external display, but by the time I would have added the external display, I could get a better, more powerful machine with the Apple iMac G5 with a 20 inch wide screen display that is simply gorgeous. I picked up the high end model, with Bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse, 512 meg. of memory, 160 GB hard drive, and the Slot-load SuperDrive. With just a power plug and hooking up a network cable from my router, I was in fat Apple city.

When I turned it on, it went through its boot up process and Wow! Once again I found the machine I love.

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