Life online can be a much rich

　　Life on-line can be a much richer experience when you aren’t restricted to just written words and still pictures. Even if you’re new to the Net, you’ve probably heard aobut multimedia on-line--listening to audio, watching animations and videos, even playing in three-dimensional space. Sound and movement make information come alive.

　　To experience it, you’ll need special pieces of software called plug-ins. The term "plug-in" refers to a small, add-on piece of software which extends the capabilities of your web browser, like Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Explorer, turning your computer into a radio or TV.

　　When you arrive at a web page which contains a file requiring a plug-in which you don’t have, you will usually receive a message asking if you want to get it by downloading it and installing it into your computer. Most of the time, the installation will be automatic.

　　Occasionally, you’ll run into a downloaded file which needs to be decompressed or un-zipped before installation. Once installed, plug-ins run automatically, without you having to do anything.

　　Many multimedia controls still need to be obtained from the developer but are installed automatically.

　　Shockwave is a good example of this. All you need to do is go to the Macromedia site and click on the link to install the ActiveX control. The rest happens automatically. The next time you go to a "Shocked" website, the Shockwave control loads and plays the movie.

　　Most plug-ins and controls can be downloaded for free on the Internet, although not all will work with every system. Some of them, for instance, only work with windows 95.

　　當你不再局限于文字和靜止圖片時，網絡生活就會豐富多彩。即使是因特網的新手，你也可能聽說過在線多媒體——聽音樂，看動畫和視頻，甚至玩三維游戲。聲音和活動圖片使信息生動。

　　要體驗這些，你需要稱之為“插件”特殊軟件“插件”它指的是一個額外的小軟件，它可以擴展你的網絡瀏覽器（如網絡導航器或微軟探索者）的功能——把你的電腦變成收音機或電視機。

　　當您輸入的網頁包含需要使用插件程序的文件，但您沒有此程序時，您通常會收到一條信息，詢問您是否需要下載該程序并將其安裝在計算機中。在大多數情況下，安裝是自動操作的。

　　有時，您會遇到需要在安裝前解壓的下載文件。一旦安裝完成，插件將自動運行，無需您做任何事情。

　　很多媒體的控制程序還是需要從開發商那里索取的，但都是自動安裝的。

　　Shockwave 這是一個很好的例子。你需要做的就是去Macromedia點擊網站上的鏈接安裝Activex控制程序，剩下的事情會自動完成。下次需要再做一次Shockwave 的網站時，Shockwave控制程序將自動裝載和播放電影。

　　盡管并非所有這些程序都能在每個系統上正常運行，但大多數插件和控制程序都可以從互聯網上免費下載。例如，有些只適用于視窗95。

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