Site of the Week - www.popcast.com.FOR owners of those outrageously out·ra·geous adj. 1. a. Grossly offensive to decency or morality. b. Being well beyond the bounds of good taste: outrageous epithets. 2. Having no regard for morality. expensive digital comcorders, POP cast.com offers some new options that enable you to transmit home videos to your friends and neighbors without causing their computers to crash from the sheer size of the files. The LA-based company lets users stream digital video directly to the desired audiences via e-mail. Sending digital photos and video snippets over the Net is relatively commonplace these days, but e-mailing the big video files directly, as an attachment, can take the receiving party hours to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. and sometimes crash their system. But those problems can now be avoided by uploading the digital images to the Popcast.com site, which features user-friendly, point-and-click technology. The company then forwards your video to whomever whom·ev·er pron. The objective case of whoever. See Usage Note at who. whomever pron the objective form of whoever: you designate des·ig·nate tr.v. des·ig·nat·ed, des·ig·nat·ing, des·ig·nates 1. To indicate or specify; point out. 2. To give a name or title to; characterize. 3. , and they can immediately view the footage without any downloading downloading - download at all. POPcast.com users can send up to 10 MB of digital video for free, although they are subjected to commercials when they log in. The limit makes the free service better suited to handle birthday party videos or a CEO's pep talk than a fledgling filmmaker's effort. For those with more serious transmission needs, the company offers other sophisticated - and costly - services. |
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