Thursday, 25 September 2008

Downloading






ITunes

· Watch trailers of films
· Bur or rent films
· It suggests other films that might be useful to you
· Has categories
· If you click on one genre of film you can view all
· You can buy iTunes vouchers in shops
· You can buy certain songs instead of whole albums
· There are reviews from other customers on what they think about that song/album/film
· You can put together a playlist of songs and people can buy them
· ITunes is the biggest music seller in the US
· You can get free download on podcasts
· There are categories for new and old podcasts
· You can set up your iTunes so that once you have listened to a podcast you can delete it and it wont clog up your computer memory
· If you search something it will come up under the search bar
· A lot of podcasts come in video as well as audio

E-music
· Has no digital rights management
· Cheaper than iTunes
· Doesn’t have the same features as iTunes
· Only has music, but no films or podcasts etc.
· It has audio books
· Audio book would be useful if you are blind, younger children who can’t read very well, another way of studying and listening to information, they are portable so you can do it when you are out for walks etc.

Other uses of downloading
· You can download software and drivers
· You can download a driver for virtually any digital device
· Most things like printers/scanners need a special driver to connect with your computer
· Tucows.com allows you to download any type of software to try it out
· Some of the programmes are free (freeware) and some programmes you have to pay for
· Shareware you have to buy programmes, but you are allowed to test it before purchase
· You can download updates from Microsoft, about viruses and hackers, to save your computer (patches)This makes it more secure, reliable and allows it to work better.

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