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Two features in this week's edition use this technology. The TUNE this week is a 7 minute piano performance by my friend Doctor Ben. Also, this week's ANIMATED GIF is not really an animated gif. It's a 2 minute streaming video tribute to Doctor Ben's late wife, Helen.

Streaming technologies are becoming increasingly important with the growth of the Internet because most users do not have fast enough access to download large multimedia files quickly.

With streaming, your web browser (using the REALPLAYER plug-in) can start displaying the data before the entire file has been transmitted.

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McVeigh Outcry Underscores EBay Dilemma
People are thoughtless. They don't stop and think how these things will impact those who have been hurt physically or emotionally by the Oklahoma tragedy.

House Leader Will Block Online Sales Tax
Under a 1992 Supreme Court decision, states cannot require retailers to collect sales taxes unless they have a physical presence in that state.

Microsoft Monopoly Must Be Broken
Microsoft is like a drug dealer, offering an enticing service free at first, then charging after the user gets hooked. The first hit of heroin is free.

New Tech Push For Disabled People
There are an estimated 54 million Americans with some form of disability. President Bush kicked off a government effort to make computers and other technology friendlier to disabled workers.

Have you ever surfed the Web and run across a big, empty, gray box with what looks like a puzzle piece inside? Or perhaps you've tried to play a music file, video, or game you've found on the Web, and instead of playing, you get a message like this; "You have selected content type application/x-blankety-blank.There is no viewer available," when the file won't play?

Before you say "Dawgonnit, this thing don't work!", let me share a secret; the problem can be fixed easily and for free.

You've run into something that requires a plug-in to be seen or heard or both. Plug-ins are computer programs that work with your Web browser to allow multimedia elements on websites to function. Without plug-ins, the Web is basically just words and pictures; plug-ins add animation, live streaming video, interactive games, even three-dimensional spaces.

Think of a plug-in like a car option. The browser is the base model, but it doesn't have all the amenities, like air conditioning and AM/FM stereo.

Plug-ins are special add-on programs that work with your web browser. They allow you to view videos, hear music and experience special effects that exist on many websites.

Example... in this week's edition of ComputerGuyNY Report there are two features that require the RealPlayer plug-in. If you have it, you can see the video that I made and you can listen to the piano music that my friend recorded.

RealPlayer is the king of all streaming music and video.

If you run into a site that requests a plug-in you don't have, here's how you get it:

Both Netscape and Explorer will direct you to a plug-in library or to the download site of the plug-in maker. Most of these plug-ins have their own expanders, so after you download the file just click on it and follow the directions.

TIP - Consider getting high speed access. It's a whole new world of browsing the WEB as you use these plug-ins. If you have any questions about it just send me an email.

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