Multimedia Papers and Tutorials

At the HP World '96 conference in Anaheim, Robelle presented a number of papers and product tutorials. In fact, the only company to give more papers was Hewlett-Packard. We recorded the audio for some of our presentations, which we have made available here in RealAudio format. This format allows you to hear the audio immediately without any download delay. Participants in our tutorials and papers received workbooks, which are available here as a Web slide show, or as downloadable files in MS PowerPoint for Windows format.

Get the RealAudio player

To play RealAudio on your PC or Macintosh, you need hardware, a 14.4k or faster Internet connection, and software (the RealAudio Player). You can download the player for free from Progressive Networks. The player was also bundled with Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, but you may need to upgrade that version (see below).

Upgrade Your Player!

We have had a couple of reports of users' PCs hanging when they try to play our audio clips. This is known to happen with version 2.0.0.15 of the player, which we are told was distributed with some releases of Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0. Progressive Networks advises that all users download the newest version of the player, which addresses the compatibility issue.

The Sound Controls The Pictures

When playing the synchronized slide shows, it is the audio portion that controls the pace of the presentation. As the audio progresses, the appropriate slide will be shown. Do not use the Next Slide or Previous Slide buttons, as they will only temporarily switch to the next or previous slide, until the audio track sends you a new page to correspond with the audio. The proper way to move through the slide show is to use the scroll bar or "slider" on the RealAudio player. As you move to a different time along the scale, the corresponding slide will be sent to the browser.

Tip 1:After the RealAudio player starts, click anywhere on the browser window so that the browser will come to the foreground, and you will be able to see the full slide.
Tip 2:The audio player and Web browser together can dominate slower machines, to the point where you cannot do anything else at the same time. If this happens, pause the audio playback using the Pause/Play button on the player, to give you the CPU power to do other things such as answering your e-mail. This also allows you to explore other Web pages without the audio player sending you back to the slide show when it decides to change pages.

Program Guide

Topic	Slides Only			Synchronized Audio and Slides
Topic	Pages	Text	Graphics	Synchronized Audio and Slides
Publishing a Book on the World Wide Web by Bob Green	17	play	play	56:36
Speeding Up Quiz Using Suprtool by Hans Hendriks	19	play	play	35:39
Exporting Data to the World using STExport by Mike Shumko	19	n/a	play	soon