Term Audio Editing

Audio editing is the process where you get an audio file and you modify it, may that be by shortening editing, cutting parts, mixing it, changing its order or adding effects. Programs that can be used to do this include Audacity, Garage Band or even video editor like Adobe Premiere Pro or iMovie.

Advantages of digital audio versus analog is the facility of transporting around, as you can fit many cds in a single apparatus. It is also much easier to edit and share. Shooting it is also much simple and only requires a computer and a microphone, nothing more. Analog on the other hand has the advantage of having a single format and it causes no problems of compatibility.

Formats include mp3, which is the most popular and practically THE format for audio. Other formats are wav or wma. Players include iTunes, Windows Media Player or even online audio players, including playlists, like Spotify or Grooveshark.

Audio editing is used in multiple medias like radio, television, cinema, podcasts, interviews and even the most simple videos or audio files use some kind of audio edting.

I myself use audio editing a lot in the process of making my videos. Specially with those that have dialogues and such. Though the music videos don't require any 'pure' audio editing like cutting and moving the audio but I have to control audio levels, and most of the job is in coordinating audio with video. Digital audio editing has allowed many people to make the things they love without the need of expensive and unreachable equipment to make a simple thing like a podcast. And this added with the wave effect of the internet has allowed for a completely new level of interaction between people all over the world.

Some useful pages to look up more information on audio editing and everything to do with it include:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_editor
http://www.webopedia.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/es/genre/musica/id34
http://www.howtogeek.com/56264/the-how-to-geek-guide-to-audio-editing-cutting-trimming-arranging/

What is a 'Podcast'?

A podcast is a section of media which consists on periodic updates through audio files which can be downloaded or viewd directyl on the directory. The word is actually a neologism in between 'pod' and 'broadcast'. It serves as a very portable and 'on-the-move' type of media which allows for a very updated, easy to do and comfortable way to contact your audience, though podcasts can become very complex. It can also be viewed through live streaming instead of downloading. Though downloads, which are stored on the users computer or mobile device, can be automated to assure al new updates by downloading the podcast from the distributor's web feed.
 
These audio podcasts are now also being transformed into video podcasts which include a video. This change is being brought forward thanks to faster and more powerful overall internet connections. It is becoming very popular specially for news updates and some webs are using this new media exclusively though audio podcasts are still very extended and popular. I myself enjoy to listen to Empire Online Magazine's (a film magazine) podcasts.

A place where you can find podcasts is iTunes or the SoundCloud which uses RSS Feed and offers a nice alternative to having to open iTunes though when downloading I recommen iTunes more if you already use it for your day-to-day music management.

And here is my podcast and the last I listen to, which I enjoyed a lot. (Though if you have not yet watched the film "The Dark Knight Rises" don't listen to it because it is a spoiler podcast)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24108971/The%20Empire%20Podcast/Dark%20Knight%20Rises%20Spoiler%20Podcast.mp3

Technology Living in the XXIst Century

Technology is very central in our daily lives. With tablets, smartphones and all kinds of portable devices being developed, improved and released now technology is with us everywhere we go, and very close to us. Businesses and relationships both have come to the depend upon this new technologies that the human being has embraced so willingly.
The technology developer Apple is at the head of this vanguard bringing to the public the mos the efficient apparatus of their kind. The iPad, iPhone, iPod and the Macintosh have all raised the standard of what this products should be like and all have tried to equal them.

Now a days having a computer, or even now a tablet or smartphone can be a substitute, is essential and an internet conection is obligatory to be able to deal with the our modern society and be able to live with it.
So whether you use one system or another, prefer a tablet over a smartphone or just plainly, for now, prefer a PC, desktop or portable depending on your needs and possibilities, one cannot deny that these new and ever developing techonologies are a key part of our lives and current way of living. Because one, cannot survive in the XXIst century without internet and a device that connects us to it.

Skype

Video conferencing can be used to give classes online, even overseas and this is already in use. It can also be used to talk with far away friends or family members, for business or even for other things. It can also be used for just talking without using the camera option.

As a student I can use to receive online classes from someone far away or talk with a far away fellow student, or even with one who is at home.

Skype allows you to start a video chat or only a written chat or even a mixture of both. You can also share documents through it, or only speak and not use video or viceversa.

The requirements are a good grafics card and a decent CPU to manage the video processing. Of course a good internet connection is also primordial to have fluent communication.