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What is a Feed? A feed is similar to a bookmark in a web browser. If you subscribe to the feed
of the New York Times home page, for instance, you will always see the latest content from that
page in your reader. You can create special search feeds for specific words or phrases, which
can be extremely useful for research, or clip content you find for later use or sharing with others.
Put another way, a feed is a website that changes.
What is a Post? In your web reader, each feed shows new articles, or posts, in a list. The
reader allows you to read the article on its original page, mark the article as read, rate it, e-mail
or IM it to friends or clip it for future reference in a folder.
Who Publishes Content in RSS? Most online news and information sites publish RSS feeds,
and more are being added every day. Part of the popularity of weblogs, or blogs, is that the
software that creates them have RSS capability, which allows friends and other people to
subscribe and share content.
How Do I "Subscribe" to a Feed? You may see the big orange symbol on web pages, which is
a link to the RSS feed or a page of feeds. Copy the url (the web address) of the feed you want
and paste it in your reader to subscribe. Many pages offer one-click subscription to well-known
aggregators like NewsGator, Bloglines, Rojo and Google Reader. The latest versions of the
popular web browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox and Apple’s Safari now incorporate RSS
feeds into their bookmark programs. If you see updated content, you are subscribed to RSS
feeds and you don’t even know it!
21. AUDACITY –free software program for recording and editing audio for Macs and PCs
• TUTORIAL http://www.edhsonline.org/other/audacity/index.html
• Open Audacity on the Mac and experiment
• If you have a PC and don’t have Garageband like Macs, to create podcasts, download
Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and download LAME download page.
How do I get the Audacity files to become MP3 files?
Audacity can import all MP3 files. Using the optional LAME encoder, Audacity can also export
MP3 files. Companies hold patents on the MP3 encoding process, and charge royalties for MP3
software, hardware, and streaming. Because of this, Audacity cannot include a built-in MP3
encoder
How do I download and install the LAME MP3 encoder?
The first time you convert audacity will ask for the lame_enc.dll file is – see directions below.
Because of software patents Audacity is unable to distribute MP3 encoding software. Follow the
instructions to use the free LAME encoder to export MP3 files with Audacity.
1. Go to the LAME download page.
2. Click on any link from the list of identical "lame-3.96.1" links.
3. When you have finished downloading LAME, unzip it and save the file lame_enc.dll
anywhere on your computer.
4. The first time you use the "Export as MP3" command, Audacity will ask you where
lame_enc.dll is saved.