With the net changing on a daily basis, You need to get the plug-ins needed for your browser (Netscape right... ?? )
TPO's Pick for the most usefull and innovative Internet application ever (trust TPO on this....
THIS IS HOT !!! ) is PointCast , which provides news, sports, stock quotes and weather all customizable to your needs.
To see all the Virtual Reality on the WWW, you'll need
Live 3D
which includes Live Audio and Live
Video. Topper provides support
for Virtual Reality Behavior Language
(VRBL). Viscape is VR software for Marketing, training
and entertainment. V-Realm provides advanced HTML aspects
and support for VRML standards. WIRL VR Browser has a powerful VRML environment that
supports authoring.
A lot of web pages have built in Sound files that you
may not even know about unless you have
the propper plug-in Crescendo! provides support
for MIDI files. Echospeech does a great job of compressing speech
files and embedding them into your
page. RealAudio provides real-time sound over
the net (radio broadcasts etc....).
There are a lot of graphics on the net besides GIF and JPG files... are you seeing them? NOT if you
don't have the proper Graphics viewer!!! Mbed allows
for embedding animated GIF files
into your pages. Shockwave is one of the
top plugins available with versions
vor authoring, Freehand and Director. Sizzler cuts download times by
streaming QuickTime videos and PICS files. CoolFusion streams AVI files,
letting you vire them as they arrive. This plugin also replaces Media Player as your file viewer. .
Ncompass ActiveX is Microsoft's answer to Java,
and this Plug-in incorporates it better than anything I have seen. Netscape by itself only
supports a few graphic file types, but . Figleaf supports over a dozen.
KEYview allows Netscape o recognize over 200
file types, but is still a little
buggy... Word Viewer
enables you to post MS Word documents w/o having to mark them up with HTML, the user just gets this,
and views the .DOC file !!!
Misc: Look@Me is going to
thrill Timbuktu users, with it, you can collaborate with web users on documents! Ichat is a great chat system that works well (within Netscape !!).
