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Offsite Websites That Are Pertinent to This Chapter

Browser Review

There are other browsers besides Internet Explorer. This page has reviews of 5 browsers, all are free.
http://www.consumersearch.com/web-browser-reviews

Firefox. If you use Firefox, see this site. "Protect Your Laptop With Seven Must-Have Firefox Add-Ons" by By Paul Rubens
http://practicallynetworked.com/security/protect_your_laptop_with_seven_firefox_add-ons.htm

Color, Online Use

Priester, G. W. (2000). All You Need to Know About Web Safe Colors. The title of this page might more accurately read more than you need to know. You can skim parts, but parts may be helpful.
http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/websafe1/websafe_colors.html

This site presents good information about the use of color. You might call it "everything you wanted to know about color and then some." Is fun and informative. See the left hand column for links to interesting items.
http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html

Hexadecimal Color Codes. Also contains a list of Web Safe colors and their codes.
http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html

You will find more help about the use of color in Power Point Presentations see Color in chapter 8.

Cookies (Web)

FAQ's about cookies. Answers many questions including how to delete a cookie
http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/

How Internet Cookies Work. An excellent article that describes how cookies work, what they do and what they don't do.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/cookie.htm

What you need to know about cookies. A good description of cookies, along with information on how to get rid of them.
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2007/all_about_cookies.asp

Domain Names

List of Domain Names. Provides links to information about each domain name including countries.
http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm

Email

"A Beginners Guide to Effective Email," is an excellent resource for all who use email. Might better be titled "All You Need to Know About Email, But Did Not Know Enough to Ask." As points are made, examples are given. Email would be a great deal more helpful if everyone would read and heed the information in this article.
http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.top.html

Deciphering Internet E-mail: A Quick Reference. A Webopedia's "Do You Know?" series that describes how email work and defines and discusses SMAP, POP and IMAP email protocols. Good information.
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/e_mail.asp

History of the @ Sign. A fun piece from Webopedia's "Did You Know?"Series that gives the history of the @sign in computers, but also before computers. Includes a list of many countries with what the @ sign means there.
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/HistoryofAtSign.asp

Why Emails Bounce. From Webopedia's "Did you know?" series, this article describes some of the background workings in email.
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/BouncedEmail.asp

How to back up and to restore Outlook Express data. Detailed how to instructions from Microsoft.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q270670/

Email Abbreviations, Smileys & Emoticons

Description of smileys and list of some common ones.
http://www.robelle.com/smugbook/smiley.html

FAQs about Smileys including their origin.
http://www.newbie.net/SmileyFAQ/index.html

 

Extranet

Two very helpful sites in understanding this concept.
http://searchenterprisewan.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid200_gci212089,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extranet

Differentiate between extranet and intranet with links to more information about both.
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/filetransferprotocol/Intranets_and_Extranets.htm

History

Internet

A page from the Internet Society that presents the history of the Internet from many different viewpoints.
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/

A history of the Internet tied in with other communication breakthroughs. Interesting.
http://www.netvalley.com/intval1.html

World Wide Web

A brief history of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the dream that engendered it by its creator, Tim Berners Lee.
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html

History of the Web from the World Wide Web Society presented in a list format with dates.
http://www.w3.org/History.html

Intranet

Two sites that describe intranets.
http://searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid8_gci212377,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intranet

Differentiate between extranet and intranet with links to more information about both.
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/filetransferprotocol/Intranets_and_Extranets.htm

Internet

Glossary of Internet Terms.
http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html

Types of Internet Connections: A Quick Reference. Information about speed of various types of connections from dial up (analog) to T3 and satellite including wireless.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2faz,1,nxf,5e8g,ek2t,hmlx

What type of network do you need? This article presents information about the various types of computer networking available.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/qa/qa20021007.shtml

Internet Service Provider (ISP)

Choosing an ISP. This article presents items to consider in choosing an ISP.Has excellent information. There are links to how to rate an ISP and The definitive ISP buyers guide.
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2003/ChoosingAnISP.asp

IP Addresses (The numbers behind Internet Addresses)

Webopedia description of IP addresses with links to many good articles.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/IP_address.html

Networking

Fiber Optics: A tutorials on the Basics of fiber optic cable. Written in easily understood words.
http://www.arcelect.com/fibercable.htm)

Types of Internet Connections: A Quick Reference. Information about speed of various types of connections from dial up (analog) to T3 and satellite including wireless.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2faz,1,nxf,5e8g,ek2t,hmlx

What type of network do you need? This article presents information about the various types of computer networking available.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/qa/qa20021007.shtml

What Makes a Virtual Private Network Private? From Webopedia. An excellent description of the topic.
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2007/virtual_private_network_VPN.asp.

Phishing

All About Phishing. An excellent description of Phishing from Webopedia.
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2005/phishing.asp

Jakobsson. M. & Ratkiewicz, J. (2006). Designing Ethical Phishing Experiments: A study of (ROT13) rOnl query features. If you think that very few respond to phishing attacks, read this study. Also describes the various forms of phishing.
http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/markus/papers/ethical_phishing-jakobsson_ratkiewicz_06.pdf

Phishing - Don't take the Bait. An excellent article from the Florida Division of Consumer Services that describes this newest scam and provides information on how to protect yourself.
http://www.800helpfla.com/scams/phishing.html

Report on Phishing from the Canadian government (2006, October). This 16 page report describes phishing, how it is committed, and its various forms.
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/report_on_phishing.pdf

Scams and other Internet harassment (Identity Theft)

BreakTheChain.org. Information about chain letters.
http://www.breakthechain.org/reasons.html

Clickjacking or forcing you to do what you don't want to do. This page defines it and provides links for help.
http://networking.webopedia.com/TERM/c/clickjack_attack.html

ID Theft. Information on what to do if you suspect that your ID has been stolen. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/

To keep up on the latest threats search for either Twitter virus or Facebook virus or Myspace virus.

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Tutorials

Great place to start learning about the WWW. Offers an overview of the web, hints about search engines and many more things.
http://www.imagescape.com/he lpweb/www/www.html

Tutorial designed specifically for nurses on using the Internet.
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/tutorial/nurse/

 

Test Speed of your Internet Connection

McAffee - http://us.mcafee.com/root/speedometer/default.asp

CNET - http://reviews.cnet.com/internet-speed-test/

Speednet. Click on the location nearest you on the map and select city. Test of download, then upload will start.
http://www.speedtest.net/

Usability in Web pages

Before even starting to plan a Web site, visit this site by the noted Web usability guru, Jacob Nielsen. You will find many suggestions to make your site more user friendly. Visit the Top 10 Information Architecture Mistakes
http://www.useit.com/

A chapter from the John Krug book on Web design, Don't Make Me Think. Great book too.
http://www.sensible.com/chapter.html

Research-based Web Design & Usability Guidelines. A very complete list of organized links to information on many aspects of usability including, but not limited to topics such as design process, reading, content organization, and accessiblity.
http://usability.gov/guidelines/

Step-by-Step Usability Guide. The primary government source for information on usability. There are tools for creating Web sites and making them more usable and useful. Guidelines are research based.
http://usability.gov/

Ten Usability Heuristics (Jacob Nielsen). Listed and described are ten general principles for user interface design.
http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html

Usability First. Although theoretically designed primarily for Web Site designers, this is valuable information for any software designer. Best information is found by scrolling down and clicking on "Introduction to Usability" and "Glossary."
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/

Virtual Private Net word (VPN)

What Makes a Virtual Private Network Private? From Webopedia. An excellent description of the topic including intrAnets and extranets.
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2007/virtual_private_network_VPN.asp .

Viruses

Inside Spyware: A Guide to Finding, Removing and Preventing Online Pests. This article and its links discuss another hazard, spyware, with the Internet as well as information for both detecting and avoiding spyware.
http://www.intranetjournal.com/spyware/

Virus Encyclopedia. Just like a real encyclopedia except this one contains information about viruses, worms, trojan horses and all types of computer pests. Has a glossary too.
http://www.viruslist.com/en/viruses/encyclopedia

What Keeps Computers Safe? (9/20/02). Event though relatively old, has information on items that don't change! A question and answer session written in very understandable language about the differences between hardware and software firewalls, virus protection and anti-virus programs. Highly recommended!
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/qa/qa20020910.shtml

Beal, V. (2009, April 24) Rogue Anti-Virus Software Explained. Rogue anti-virus programs usually appears in the form of a fake Windows warning on your computer system that reads something like, you have a specific number of viruses on your computer (usually in the hundreds) and that this software has detected those viruses. To get rid of these viruses, you're prompted to buy the full-version of the anti virus software (which is really rogue anti virus software)
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2009/Rogue_AntiVirus_Software.asp

See also Virus Protection on this site.

Wireless Networks

Merrill, Molly (May 20, 2009) Study identifies top five wireless challenges. Describes each challenge.
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/study-identifies-top-five-wireless-challenges

 

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Websites Referred to in Text of Chapter

International Corporation for Assigning Names and Numbers (ICAHN). http://www.icann.org/

Checking out virus and other warnings received in email messages. http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hoaxes/default.asp , http://www.snopes.com/ and http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/nethoaxes/ht/emailhoax.htm

Checking urban legends. Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/

 

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References in this Chapter that are Online

ASP101. What is ASP? Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.asp101.com/wrox/asp2samp/2459ch01.asp.

Beal, V. (2004, November 11). The Difference Between Adware & Spyware. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2004/spyware.asp.

Beal, V. (2005, June 3). Cable vs. DSL. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2005/cable_vs_dsl.asp.

Beal, V. (2007, May 18). What You Need to Know About Cookies. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2007/all_about_cookies.asp.

Beal, V. (2007, June 1). What Makes a Virtual Private Network Private? Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2007/virtual_private_network
_VPN.asp

Fiber optics. (2006, July 13). Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://webopedia.com/TERM/F/fiber_optics.html.

Gardena, E. (2008, January 23). Satellite Internet. Retrieved November 18, 2008, from http://ezinearticles.com/?Satellite-Internet&id=944996.

High Speed Internet Access. Satellite Internet Service. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.high-speed-internet-access-guide.com/satellite/.

Howe, W. (2007, January 16). A brief history of the Internet. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html.

International Engineering Consortium. (2007). Cable Modems. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/cable_mod/topic01.html.

Kawamoto, W. (2005, February 1). Web Management Satellite Equals Broadband Lite Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/webmaster/article.php/3466881.

Landesman, M. (2008a). What is a Keylogger Trojan? Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://antivirus.about.com/od/whatisavirus/a/keylogger.htm.

Landesman, M. (2008b). Review: Free Antivirus Software. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://antivirus.about.com/od/antivirussoftwarereviews/a/freeav.htm

Leiner, B. M., Cerf, V. G., Clark, D. D., Kahn, R. E., Kleinrock, L., Lynch, D. C., et al. (2003, December 10). A Brief History of the Internet. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml.

Marples, G. (2004). How DSL Internet Access Works Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.howitworks.net/how-dsl-internet-access-works.html.

McDowell, M. (2006). National Cyber Alert System, Cyber Security Tip ST06-002: Debunking Some Common Myths. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST06-002.html.

McDowell, M., & Householder, A. (2004). National Cyber Alert System Cyber Security Tip ST04-005: Understanding Anti-Virus Software. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-009.html

McDowell, M., & Householder, A. (2007, May 3). National Cyber Alert System Cyber Security Tip ST04-009: Identifying Hoaxes and Urban Legends. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-009.html.

Morgan, T. P. (2008, February 19). Net Neutrality Comes Around on the Ferris Wheel Again. Retrieved November 18, 2008, from http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb021908-story06.html

Network neutrality. (2007, September). Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality.

New domain names coming next year? (2007, May 11). Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18608110/.

Rich Internet application. (2008, November 13). Retrieved February 19, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Internet_application.

Spring, T. (2008, February 18). Get Ready for a crackdown on broadband use. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.macworld.com/article/132144/2008/02/broadband.html

Web Hosting Geeks. Ka Band -Affordable Satellite Internet On The Way! Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://webhostinggeeks.com/articles/broadband-internet/7643.php

Webopedia. (2007, June 15). The Differences Between WEP and WPA. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Computer_Science/2007/WEP_WPA
_wireless_security.asp#5571765847448233914.

What is fiber optic cable and why would I want it for my business? Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.cpifiber.com/AboutCPIFiberOptics.html

Wikipedia. (2008, October 13). Cable Modem. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_modem.

Wilton-Jones, M. The early Internet and the first generation browsers. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/jshistory.html.

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