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ArticlesTour The Sights And Sounds


February 1996 / Cover Story / Toss Your TV / Tour The Sights And Sounds

You'll need 1) a Web browser, 2) access to the World Wide Web, and 3) "viewers" for your browser. All the vendors here are providing their basic client software for free.

WHITE PINE SOFTWARE'S CUSEEME

Download the viewer (for Mac or Power Macintosh or 486 PC with Windows) from http://www.wpine.com . Check out live camera feeds from Cornell University (the CU of CUSeeMe), Kent State, NASA, and White Pine itself. Internet addresses are contained in the software.


VOCALTEC'S INTERNET WAVE

Download the viewer (for 486 PC with Windows, Win 95, or NT) from http://www.vocaltec.com/iwave.htm . Then you can check out some tunes and news.

Home page for the band I Forget : http://www.sarabande.com/iforget/iwave/cant.htm

Blues music: http://www.adtek.com/audio/

KOL Isr ael news from Jerusalem in English and Hebrew: http://www.artificia.com/html/news.htm

African djimbe drums: http://www.huntana.com/montana/iwave_drum.html


PROGRESSIVE NETWORKS' REALAUDIO

Download the viewer (for Macintosh or Power Macintosh or 486 PC with Windows) from http://www.RealAudio.com . Then you can check ou t sports and news.

Sound clips from ESPN:

http://espnet.sportszone.com :80/editors/studios/

ABC Radio news: http://www.abcradionet.com

National Public Radio news: http://www.realaudio.com/contentp/npr.html

National Football League highlights: http://www.RealAudio.com/contentp/rabest/cbsnfl.html


XING TECHNOLOGY'S STREAMWORKS

Download the viewer (for Mac or Power Mac or 486 with Windows) from http://www.xingtech.com . Then you can check out Ottawa's CFRA radio station, Taiwanese folk music, KWBR radio in California, and NBC's live video feed (all the addresses are included in StreamWorks).


VDONET'S VDOLIVE

Decently paced inline streaming video over even slow (9600-bps) modems. Go to http://www.vdolive.com

Sample du jour: http://www.vdolive


CUSeeMe

screen_link (18 Kbytes)


I Forget...Or Can't Remember

screen_link (23 Kbytes)


NPR Takes Everything Into Consideration

screen_link (36 Kbytes)


Xing Went the Strings of My Browser

screen_link (49 Kbytes)


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