Software
Software
Podcasting is an automatic mechanism whereby multimedia computer files are transferred from a server to a client, which pulls down XML files containing the Internet addresses of the media files. In general, these files contain audio or video, but also could be images, text, PDF, or any file type.
An instant messenger is a computer application which allows instant text communication between two or more people through a network such as the Internet.
Developer(s) Skype Limited
Initial release August 2003 (2003-08)
Stable release 5.3.0.111 (Windows)
5.1.0.922 (Mac OS X)
2.2.0.25 (Linux) (April 20, 2011; 4 days ago (2011-04-20) (Windows)
April 14, 2011; 10 days ago (2011-04-14) (Mac OS X)
April 6, 2011; 18 days ago (2011-04-06) (Linux)) [+/−]
Preview release [+/−]
Written in Embarcadero Delphi / Objective-C (Mac OS X/iPhone) / C++ with Qt4 (Linux)
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in Multilingual
A Silverlight 1.0 application hosted in Internet Explorer. Interactivity is provided by Silverlight, but user input controls are HTML controls overlaid on top of Silverlight content
Special effects (abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used in the film, television, and entertainment industry to visualize scenes that cannot be achieved by normal means, such as space travel. They are also used when creating the effect by normal means is prohibitively expensive, such as an enormous explosion.