Essential Concepts

Learning some definitions!

In order for us to fully understand the podacasting world we have to know its terms.

So lets start!!

XML
The language they use tto create online sites. The definition of  webopidia is:
Short for Extensible Markup Language, a specification developed by the W3C. XML is a pared-down version of SGML, designed especially for Web documents. It allows designers to create their own customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.


RSS
Is a file format that allows websites to share information for othe websites to publish, for example news, webopedias definition:

RSS stands for the facto standard for thesyndication of Web content. RSS is an XML-based format  used  in distributing news headlines on the Web.
A Web site that wants to allow other sites to publish some of its content creates an RSS document and registers the document with an RSS publisher.

Jingle

A short audio which is used to create especial effects or backgrounds, such as those tunes preceding the news.

"to sound in a light, repetitious manner suggestive of this, asverse, a sequence of words, or piece of music."




Stinger

A stinger is a brief sound or musical phrase that may be used as "audio punctuation."



MP4

MP4 is a file format created by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as a multimedia container format designed to store audiovisual data. The MP4 is largely replacing earlier multimedia file formats, and creating some changes in the way that vendors sell audiovisual files to the public.



MPX


MPX Microsoft Project File Exchange Format is a file format developed by Microsoft for sharing project data with other project management applications.

Audio Comparison!

 

What will become of pur world without music? I don't even want to think about that. Music is all around us like in the movies, in the cars, even at elevators! And maybe because of it popularity people have found many many ways to record music. That is why there are so many types of files for it. And the best thing is that you can find the all in Webopedia.

Mp3

This one is the most popular. It is used by eliminating background noises.
It is named Mp3 because it works with three layers. It compresses audio into the third.


WMA

This one is only used in Windows therefore it is not as popular obviously. It has smaller size and lower quality than WAV.

WAV

It is short for WAVE form. Audio file format is a digital audio format without data compression normally developed and owned by Microsoft and IBM that is used to store sounds on the PC, supports both mono and stereo files to various resolutions and sampling

AIFF

It is short for Audio Interchange File Format, which is a common format for storing and transmitting sampled sound. It was developed by Apple therefore is mostly used in macintosh. It does not compress data for it you can have AIFF- compressed another format.


RA


The de facto standard for streaming audio data over the World Wide Web. RealAudio was developed by RealNetworks and supports FM-stereo-quality sound. To hear a Web page that includes a RealAudio sound file, you need a RealAudio player orplug-in, a program that is freely available from a number of places. It's included in current versions of both Netscape Navigator andMicrosoft Internet Explorer.

Tips for podcasts Fan Summary

Discovering Podcasts 

This is  screen shot of my own iTunes search

Here you have a link to a begginers guide I found useful:

 http://wpcurve.com/the-beginners-guide-to-podcasting/

For our tecnology assignment of this week we had to read and do a summary on this webpage: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/

Find a free podcast. 

iTunes has lots of free podcasts, you only have to find them. Firts of all you have to go to the iTunes Store on the search bar at the right insert podcast an automatically iTunes store will take you to thos that are free. 

Both of this screenschot are from my own computer.
 Hope the might help you!
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Search podcasts by popularity.

If you want to see those podcasts recomended by the iTunes people you can go to the podcast page and see which ones are the most popular or search for the  topic  you want directly. 

See what tops the podcast charts.

To see which are the top podcast charts you go to the podcast page on the iTunes Store. And on the rights side of the page you can see a label where it says "Top Episodes". You can also choose whether you you want to see video podcast, sound podcasts or all of them in an upper bar in your screen. Here is a screen-shot to help you see what I am talking about: 

http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/

Podcasts II: U iTunes and Juanma Ortega

How do I download a podcast? 

First of all, you should know that podcasts as for their great demand are very easy to access them. If you use RSS , podcasts can be downloaded directly into you computer, ipod touch, ipad or any other electronic device you use. And the great thing about RSS (Really Simple Syndication, a  format XML to share a content in the web.It is used to pass actualized information frequently to users who are subscribed to such contents) is that once you've been submitted you'll get the podcast immediatly into your computer once it is released.

The most common and popular program to download podcasts is iTunes as it is the easiest, safetest on to use. As for its prize, podcasts are quite cheap because they are like magazines articles therefore they do not have a great cost. 

Juanma Ortega: 

Born in Barcelona in 1966, he is one of the most popular podcaster of Spain. He receives hundreds of visiits daily and due to his popularity he now works for Cadena Ser  one of the most imporatan radio stations of Spain.  

Here is the link to his own blog: 

http://www.juanma.com/ 

And you can download some podcasts here: 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-de-juanma-ortega/id164423316 

 U iTunes: 

Before podcasts, students and researchers all over the world only had books and websites as a source to get information. But thanks to this revolutianry tecnology nowadays we do not have to attend so many lectures because whe have them at our reach everywhere and can listen to them several times! 

And this is only thanks to iTunes who has created iTunes-U an app where you can download all of these podcasts for free! 

My Subscription

As part of this week assignment we had to subscribe to a podcast. I decided to susbscribe to Oceanos de Cienca, as I am thinking in studying Marine Biology in Spain next year 

Podcasting

Nowadays podcasts are one of the most popular way to ellude ourself. This is why they are on great demand! 

But what is a podcast? That is what we must ask ourselfs. 

The defenition of podcast: 

audio files (in mp3 format or mp4) which are distributed vía RSS. The listener can listen to them anytime because you can download them into you computer or other device.  

This is the key to the popularity of podcast.Everyone can listen to them if they have an acces to internet and a device to download it. 

Where does the term come from? 

On contrary to popular belief Apple did not create the word of "podcast" (even though wikipedia says so.) it is actually the mix of the words: public on demand and cast. However, it is true that Apple made it popular. 

What is so special about podcasts? 

Podcasts are spoken magazines issues were you recieve them if you subscribe to them. There are podcasts on every subject!! For example you can download a podcast on sailing with boats or about some math theory. They are a recording that someone uploaded to the internet. One of the great things about this "electronic magazines" is that most of them are free! 

How do you listen to a podcast? 

You can listen in lots of different programss like Odeo, Doppler or iTunes. You just have to look for them! 

Here is a link to rtve where you can download podcasts on the spot!!! 

http://www.rtve.es/radio/podcast/ 

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Spain Big Brother? 

Recently in the news, especiañly in the DailyMail had revelead how many countries requested big social network for information on people's account. Apple decided  to list  governments that request the most personal information about its customers - and the U.S. UK and Spain top the list. 

This is not the first time this type of news are released. Google and Facebook did this some months ago too.  From January to June there were almost 3,000 requests from 31 countries. Requests related to data about the owners of lost and stolen phones.They also included requests for data about vulnerable or missing people.Apple only granted requests which it considered to be valid

This is an image released by the DailyMail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2488282/Apple-lists-governments-request-personal-information-customers.html

Mavericks OS X and iCloud

This new operative system that Mac has recently launched has breaken the records on downloads!!!

It comes with several new apps and prestetions that are easy to use. It also has a new tecnology where your computer works as fast as always but consuming less energy.

With OS X Mavericks a new chapter on iBooks history has been started. Now you can download directly into your iPad, iPod etc.. and they woul apear immediatle as iBooks.

The application on maps has also been improved in such way that it blows your mind!!!!

With the new graphics it is imposible to get lost:

Photo of the new Maps

Apart from this two, the new software also has a news iCloud installed! More or less like a new key string where you save all of your passwords, scripts etc.. Now you have everything saved up in the cloud  therefore you can access everything you want, whenerver you want, wherever you want! It evens suggestets them to you