As we are approaching the 21st century communications is becoming a vital key in business and home computing. As a result we are constantly inventing new ways in order to make communications easier for the user to access in our daily lives. Therefore the information superhighway has sparred awareness in home technology or lack of home technology. The abbreviation MP3 stands for MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) layer 3, which is a standard format for storing …showed first 75 words of 1273 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1273 total…on the screen! Another way to look at mp3s: Imagine squeezing a foam ball and putting it in your pocket — that's what compressing (or recording) a song into an mp3 file is like. Taking the ball out of your pocket and letting it pop back into its original form is the equivalent of uncompressing (or playing) an mp3 file. A typical 3-minute long, CD-quality song in mp3 format takes up about 3 MB of space.