Should multimedia files be rationed?
File-sharing, the techie term for the trading of multimedia files, is still cool on campus.
Software for organizing multimedia files on the Mac and a small remote control are also included.
What's the difference between QuickTime and QuickTime VR? A. QuickTime is Apple Computer's widely used software for playing multimedia files.
Most NAS devices let users securely reach their multimedia files remotely, a feature that is becoming increasingly popular, said Ms. Lindskog of Western Digital.
The play-only version of the program is usually free, but there are also professional editions of QuickTime available for creating and editing multimedia files.
The goody bag also includes Windows Media Player for multimedia files, Pocket Internet Explorer for Web browsing and MSN Messenger for instant-messaging.
Scour has some agreements with other companies aimed at helping users to download multimedia files in a way that protects copyright.
Other institutions have told students that they may share multimedia files only at certain times during the day, or in the middle of the night.
As with Napster, the controversial site offering a service that lets users share and trade their music files online, users of Scour download software over the Internet that allows them to store and catalog multimedia files on their own computers.
This limitation spurred the development of various recordable magnetic-optical hybrid storage devices; but they generally failed to penetrate beyond the publishing world, where large multimedia files are regularly exchanged, because of incompatibility with standard CD and CD-ROM players.
