Dial-up Connection Hints ....................................................

Those with telephone "Dial-Up Modem" connections (56k) might want to first quickly visit our conference web pages first to load them into your browser. Should you want to hear a presentation with accompanying pdf visuals, you should download that as well prior to listening to the talk. When the pages are completely downloaded, come back to the first day of the convention and click on any presentation audio file.mp3 that you'd like to hear. By doing this, you will ensure that the speech/talk plays without interuption as you browse through the conference pages on our site.

Clicking on an audio link will bring up your media player window.Once the audio begins to play, click the player's window into the background to return to the conference's illustrated web pages. If your audio player does not play the audio link when clicked, please read the next section.

Streaming Audio Help:

To get audio files to play, you must click on links ending with .mp3

STREAMING: - is a continuous feed of our audio files to your audio player so that you don't have to wait for the complete download prior to listening. This is an important function for all listeners to know about, especially for those with just a regular telephone dial-up connection.

The streaming solution for PC listeners using Internet Explorer:
Decide to use Windows Media Player as your default player. Check to make sure you have one of the latest versions. This multimedia player program just keeps getting better with each update.

Method: Launch Windows Media Player. In full screen mode where menus are available, go: Tools / Options / Select Tab: File Types / click "Select All", and then click the "OK" button.

Go to each of the other players on your computer and find its Preferences or Options area 'File Types'. Deselect all the different file types, especially "mp3" files. Examples of other audio players are: QuickTime, Real Audio, Winamp, etc.

Once you've done this, your computer should now use Windows Media Player as the default player. So,... now when you click on our "audio-name.mp3" link, Windows Media Player will launch automatically and start streaming the program to you within about 5-30 seconds after an initial short connection download.


MACINTOSH USERS:

A Macintosh computer user sent in this helpful hint that allows him to see our program web pages and listen to the program.mp3 files at the same time.

METHOD: (Visit the site's web pages first if you have a slower dial-up connection to load the pages into your browser.)

1. Using your Macintosh web browser, go to the Conference page of your choice and click on any file-name.mp3 that you want to listen to.

2. This will launch Quicktime and give you the player's window. Quicktime should start to play the item fairly quickly.

3. Click on the Amber button in the upper left corner of the window to "park" the player in the "dock" where it will continue to play.

4. Re-open the "Conference" web pages. Scroll up/down to look at text and pictures.

5. Click the little arrows to go to the morning, afternoon or evening sessions of each conference day. Enjoy.

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