Bandwidth Bandits

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Files that are loaded to or from servers uses internet bandwidth to push files along the network at various speeds. Every time you upload a file to your ISP, surf the web or use an audio application, you are using bandwidth. Bandwidth is a bunch of wires or fibers connecting servers to a network. Depending [...]

The History of the iPod Podcast

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

What is now called a podcast traces its orgins to the first ipod podcasts, the creation of distributed mѣ files that could be downloaded and played on Apple’s music player, the iPod. When the iPod came out, and users discovered what a wonderful thing it was for holding music, some people had the idea of [...]

The Podcast for This American Life

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

The podcast for This American Life allows listeners to download the the shows and listen to them at their discretion. The This American Life team contracts with a site called audible.com to distribute the shows to listeners who want to hear them. Despite calling their offering a podcast, however, it is not, at least in [...]