What is Flash?
by Roger Barnette
"What is Flash? How do I get the latest
Flash Plugin for my web browser?"
Installing this if you haven't already, is a true
Internet right-of-passage. It enables your computer
to provide animated and helpful programs that load
quickly and are very user friendly.
Flash is required for the "Mother Goose Rocks"
link at the end of this newsletter.
What is it? The Flash Plugin is a small program
that will allow your web browser to behave as if
it were more capable than it is. The "Plugin"
reference relates to a small piece of software
that can be added to the web browser; sort of
like a cartridge or battery pack in the real world.
This program provides a way of handling small,
quick loading multimedia programs.
How do you upgrade your computer? That ones
even easier to understand. Go to their website at:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/
Click on the "Macromedia Flash Player" link.
Click on the "Download Now" button.
(remember where you save the file.)
Then run the file. It will do all the
work from there. Follow its instructions
and then return to the website with all the
fun and entertaining multimedia material.
If you encounter problems with it, please
feel free to call or email me and I will
gladly try to help out.
(2002-10-14) Return to Archives
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