This
site only uses the best available quality
internet video for your enter-tainment pleasure.
That's why you should download the free video
player from Apple that runs on both PCs and
Macs. It's called QuickTime and you'll
require the latest version of it called
QuickTime 7. It's often
bundled with iTunes (free) but you can also
download the free standalone version
here.
Occasionally, I've included a Windows Media
Player file. The best way to view a WMV
file on this site is to right click the link to
the file and save it to your hard drive before
opening it.
Podcast Problems?
Podcasts are MP3 files, usually much more
compressed and of lesser sound quality than
music MP3s. To listen to my podcast on a
web page on this site, I use a popup flash
player to load the file as it streams.
This enables streaming of the file without
having to wait for the entire file to download.
Download? Right click on the
download link for the podcast and choose "Save
as..." If you left click, it will try to
open in your default audio player, such as an
embedded QuickTime player.
iTunes
Currently JamesPod is not in the
iTunes Music Store but you can subscribe to
my podcast in iTunes by clicking Advanced /
Subscribeto Podcast on the file
menu. Cut and paste the following url into
the box that appears:
Subscribing to JW.com's RSS feed
Using an RSS Aggregator
(software especially for downloading
content and files that you subscribe to)
Click
here and copy and paste the URL into your
news reader/aggregator software. See your
software documentation for further instructions.
Or highlight and copy the below link:
Using Firefox Web Browser to
Add RSS Feeds
Live Bookmarks is a new technology in Firefox
that lets you view RSS news and blog headlines
in the bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks menu. With
one glance, quickly see the latest headlines
from your favorite sites. Go directly to the
articles that interest you—saving you time.
A site is enabled for Live Bookmarks when you
see this icon
on the bottom right corner of the browser.
Clicking on the icon and selecting an RSS feed
will bring up the Add Bookmark dialog. Select
'OK' and you will see Live Bookmarks with the
rest of your bookmarks.
Click the plus sign to add a
bookmark and a naming sheet appears
to let you edit the bookmark name
and file it away in just the right
library folder.
Click the built-in RSS icon and
Safari automatically displays any
available RSS feed for the current
site.
Search the Web via the built-in
Google field right next to the web
address.
Return to the point you last
typed a URL, entered a Google search
or selected a bookmark with SnapBack.
Click the open book to view the
Bookmarks Library and edit bookmark
names and addresses just like
renaming icons on your desktop.
Switch between multiple web
pages in a single window by creating
Tabs that elegantly resize
themselves based on the number open.
Adding RSS Feeds to Your Netscape
Browser
Many news websites and personal weblogs use a
format called Really Simple Syndication (RSS).
Using an RSS is an easy way to receive automatic
updates on new information from a website:
instead of having to check for updates, you can
use RSS to notify you of updates directly in
your toolbar.
To add an RSS feed to one of your toolbars:
Display the personal toolbar on which
you want to add the RSS feed.
Navigate to the website and locate their
RSS feeds. Some web-sites may include their
feeds on their home page (in which case
Netscape Browser will detect it right away),
or you may need to look for a link to RSS
somewhere on the page.
Once you find a page with an RSS feed,
Netscape Browser will automatically detect
it, and may notify you about the
availability of the feed in one of two ways:
By displaying the RSS icon
in the location bar:
By notifying you about the
feed in the message bar:
Click on the RSS icon, or on the message
bar to display a pull-down that lists the
RSS feeds for that site:
Note: The above figure
shows a site that has a single RSS feed.
Some sites may have many different feeds
that you can select from, for example, they
may have different feeds for news,
entertainment, sports, and so on. In these
cases, the pull-down will include multiple
feeds from which you can select.
Click on the feed that you want to add.
Netscape adds the feed to your toolbar.
Click
here for our information page on the subscribing
to RSS feeds for more information.
Playing and Downloading
Podcasts
The latest
JW.com podcast is available on the homepage in
the top right corner. To preview/ listen to the
podcast on your computer, click on "listen" to
open up the QuickTime player embedded on the web
page. Any version of QuickTime should work
for listening to audio on JW.com but QuickTime 7
is required for viewing video files. The
free QuickTime player is available from the
Apple Web Site as a standalone or bundled with
iTunes. QuickTime works on all major operating
systems. Unfortunately, the Windows version of
QuickTime 7 only is available for Windows 2000
and XP. Podcasts are in MP3 format.
No chapters are present in our podcasts.
Files are compressed to between 32 and 64 bits
per second to preserve bandwidth and speed up
downloads.
Video on JW.com is presented in
QuickTime 7 using the newly-developed H.264
codec, part of MPEG-4 technology. This new
compression technology allows for much better
quality video with smaller file sizes.
Smaller file sizes allow either shorter/faster
downloads or larger video displayed on your
computer. QuickTime 7 is required for
viewing video files. The
free QuickTime player is available from the
Apple Web Site as a standalone or bundled with
iTunes. QuickTime works on all major operating
systems. Unfortunately, the Windows version of
QuickTime 7 only is available for Windows 2000
and XP.
Clips can be downloaded to your
desktop. After the video has fully loaded, click
on the down arrow to the lower right on the
QuickTime player and choose 'save movie as...'
Can I get the Slice of Life Videos on my iPod
or Mobile Phone?
No! The Slice of
Life videos displayed on the home page are
formatted in 16:9 dimensions whereas iPod and
Mobile Phone videos are 4:3 (aspect ratio: the
ratio between the width of the video frame and
its height.) Video in the Library can be
downloaded and played on mobile devices.
Right click and 'save as...' to save files on
Windows computers. Some video files maybe
in the form of .zip files. Use file
compression software such as WinZip or WinRar
(Windows) to open this form of file and extract
the file to your desktop or to your portable
device directly.
Software needed for this Site
QuickTime 7.x for Windows and Macintosh.
A screen resolution of 1024x768 or wider is
required.
A recent web browser is required: IE 5 or
later, Netscape 7 or later, or Firefox 1.07 or
later. We recommend
Firefox
just cuz it's better than anything else.
How Can I Support this Site?
This site requires reader support to exist.
There are several ways to help.
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Sales of DVDs DVDs are being
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Can I contact you?
No. Well, only if it's okay for me to use
your comments on my website or on my podcast.
See the
contact page.
RSS, short for Really Simple Syndication, is a data
format that provides publishers with a new way of
distributing content. Subscribe to a feed and a
constantly updated JW.com™ will be
automatically collected by the reader of your choice.
To view an RSS feed, you will need access to a reader
(or aggregator) that allows the collection and display
of RSS content (see table at right). RSS readers can be
installed as standalone applications on your computer;
alternatively, feeds can be collected and accessed thru
a web-based service such as
Bloglines.
Many readers are available free of charge.
After setting up your RSS reader, you
will be ready to use our feed. To subscribe, right-click
on the link associated with an RSS feed (identified by
an orange button like this:
)
and select "Copy Shortcut" or "Copy Link Location" to
copy the location (URL) of the service. Follow the
instructions for your particular news reader and paste
this text wherever the location of the service you've
signed up for is requested.
on the bottom right corner of the browser.
Clicking on the icon and selecting an RSS feed
will bring up the Add Bookmark dialog. Select
'OK' and you will see Live Bookmarks with the
rest of your bookmarks.
Adding RSS Feeds to Your Netscape
Browser
