Juice is a cross-platform aggregator application that is used to download podcast media files, such as oggs and mp3s. An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function type or field of use A podcast is a series of audio or Video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated Download A software license (or software licence in commonwealth usage is a Legal instrument governing the usage or redistribution of copyright protected software A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages In computing cross-platform (also known as multi-platform) is a term used to refer to Computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented In computing a feed aggregator, also known as a feed reader, news reader or simply aggregator, is client software or a Web application Application software is a subclass of Computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly and thoroughly to a task that the user wishes to perform A podcast is a series of audio or Video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated Download To learn how to create video or audio files for Wikipedia and its sister projects check WikipediaCreation and usage of media files. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a Digital audio encoding format using a form of Lossy data compression These media files can be automatically copied to a digital audio player. A digital audio player, more commonly referred to as an MP3 player, is a Consumer electronics device that stores organizes and plays audio files Some Juice lets you schedule downloading of specific podcasts, and will let you know when a new show is available. It is free software available under the GNU General Public License. Free software or software libre is Software that can be used studied and modified without restriction and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified The project is hosted at Sourceforge. SourceForgenet is a Source code repository. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development Formerly known as iPodder and later as iPodder Lemon, the software's name was changed to Juice in November of 2005 in the face of legal pressure from Apple Computer, Inc. Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics

The original development team was formed by Erik de Jonge, Robin Jans, Martijn Venrooy, Perica Zivkovic from the company Active8 based in the Netherlands, Andrew Grumet and Garth Kidd joined the team really soon after the first release. Its development team credited the program concept to Adam Curry who wrote a little Applescript as a proof of concept and made an effort in providing the first podcasts shows (then not yet called podcasts but audio enclosures) but mostly to Dave Winer who was the inspiration for Adam Curry. Adam Clark Curry (born September 3 1964 in Washington DC) is a broadcasting and Internet personality well known for his stint from 1987 to 1994 as a Dave Winer (born May 2, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York City, USA) is an American software developer and entrepreneur in The first version also included a screenscraper for normal HTML files, and initially it wasn't so clear that podcasting would be completely tied to rss. While that was the route taken, there were diverse forks working on alternatives early in development, including one based on Freenet. Freenet is a decentralized Censorship -resistant Distributed data store originally designed by Ian Clarke.

Development

The program is written in Python and, through use of a cross-platform UI library, runs on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. A Linux variant has been heavily delayed. Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks

The 2004 growth of podcasting inspired other podcatching programs, such as jPodder, as well as the June 2005 addition of a podcast subscription feature in Apple's iTunes music player. iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application introduced by Apple Inc This development quickly put an end to the popularity of the Juice application. There were just too many advantages to subscribe to podcasts natively in iTunes than using a 3rd party application.

In 2006 the team effectively stopped further development of the program, the developers started working in other fields some Podcasting related. The team from Active8 created PodNova (http://www.podnova.com) an application which still integrates very nice with Juice with the opml interface. Adam Curry and Andrew Grumet started working on a commercial show network (podshow) where all the shows are sponsored and the distinction between show and commercial is faded to the background. Others went on on other ventures.

Forks

There have been several forks of Juice:

• IcePodder, aimed at Linux;
• PodNova, available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In Software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of Source code from one software package and start independent development Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks

References

External links

• Project home page