Additional Ideas for Watching Videos on the Internet

After you have installed RealPlayer and Flip4Mac (or RealPlayer, Flip4Mac, and Windows Media Player for Mac), you'll be able to view video on any website in the world. To ensure that you will be able to view any video on your Macintosh, you might also want to download the free VLC Media Player (http://www.videolan.org/).

Some popular video sites include YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/), AOL Video (http://video.aol.com/), and Yahoo! Video (http://video.search.yahoo.com/), all of which store video in the Flash file format. By browsing through these video sites, you can see unusual events (such as a man juggling while surfing), comedy skits (such as people parodying Britney Spears or Paris Hilton), ...

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